Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty ImagesBernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more
Two years ago in the run-up to the 2016 election, white nationalists announced that they were going to drive black voters away from the polls:Leaders of the Oath Keepers, the National Socialist Movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Freedom Party told Politico that they ...read more
A few years ago, the right tried to make its own version of Twitter and Facebook. They were tired of having to talk to all of those pesky liberals and really just wanted to be able to share racist memes with each other and talk about the good ol' days where the darkies knew their ...read more
White people, particularly white men, have been sold the myth that if you work hard, you can have the American Dream. This dream is collapsing, exposing not only white fragility, but something far more frightening to Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump...To ...read more
I had never heard the name Ron DeSantis until a little over a month ago when Andrew Gillum won the Democratic nomination to run for Governor of Florida. DeSantis, Gillum's Republican opponent, decided it would be a good idea to go on national TV and say, out loud, that Florida ...read more
The "OK" Sign - A Hate Symbol? During yesterday’s hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh, a member of his transition team, Zina Bash, was seen behind him with her arms folded and the fingers of her right hand making up something that looked like the “OK” sign for ...read more
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a right-wing extremist who has a disgraceful judicial record when it comes to human, civil, worker’s and women’s rights. The White House and the Republican Party has also seen enough of his body of work to know that Kavanaugh, if appointed ...read more
55 years ago today, August 28, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech. In this speech, he railed against the racial injustice that still pervaded America; an injustice that still persists to this day. He railed against the denial of full rights to the black ...read more
In a victory for voting rights advocates everywhere today, Georgia's Randolph County Board of Elections struck down a controversial proposal that would have shuttered seven of the county's nine polling places, after deliberating for less than a minute. "The Board followed the ...read more
A week ago, Maragret Renkl of the New York Times wrote the latest in the Times' Magical Ruralism genre in which we liberals just need to talk to jaw droppingly racist Trump voters in order to understand that they're just like us. Needless to say, as a Jew and a Latino that's been ...read more
The New York Times has published yet another in its interminable series of articles explaining that Trump's supporters aren't really bad people and we just need to reach out to them:If, on the other hand, you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable culture, ...read more
Donald Trump used the bully pulpit of the presidency to recently announce his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on prime time TV. Initially when it happened, I viewed it as another example of Trump manipulating the media once again because Supreme Court nominations typically ...read more
In the months following Harvey Weinstein's downfall, many prominent men in the entertainment industry have lost their jobs for their sexual misconduct, but whatever you may say about Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, and Chris Hardwick, all were fired due for what they did. This ...read more
I used to be hesitant to use the word "evil" in politics but not so much anymore. How else would you describe this?The Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for the possibility of another surge in family separations. Internal documents obtained by Slate show that ORR has ...read more
As astounding as it may seem, people don't seem to trust the cops much these days. It's almost like the daily stream of videos showing the police being jaw-droppingly racist is undermining the public's confidence. Today's video isn't going to help. Here we have a drunken moron, ...read more
Charles M. Blow's latest column, "Trump's Rage Junkies", put a big ol' smile on my face. Not least because we here at The Daily Banterhave been calling Trump's white Republican voters "rage addicts" since before the election. Welcome to the party, pal! You cannot fix a problem ...read more
At yesterday's Families Belong Together March, hundreds of thousands of Americans from New York City to Antler, North Dakota protested the Trump Administration's policies of ripping children from their families at the border and stuffing them in cages. That this policy has ...read more
In an extraordinary rant against the "hate filled Democrats," former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump David Bossie told Democratic strategist Joel Payne that he was “out of your cotton-picking mind.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=128&v=p4Y5PvjQr1w Payne ...read more
As Donald Trump throws infant immigrants into concentration camps, the pundit class has engaged in a debate over a pressing issue: should we shame members of his administration in public? This weekend, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service and asked to leave the Red Hen, a ...read more
In an emotional interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Roseanne Barr expressed deep regret for her racist outburst on Twitter against former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, whom she likened to an ape. “I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant ...read more
There is an astonishing article about incivility in the New York Times by Peter Baker and Katie Rogers: In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top. The premise is that Donald Trump is an asshole and because he's getting away with being an ...read more
Last June,The New York Timesdescribed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as one of the most fearsome Republicans in the country. His attempts to crack down on fictional voter fraud problem in Kansas, and his appointment as Chairman of Donald Trump's Commission for Electoral ...read more
Donald Trump is an evil and severely damaged man. People laugh at his bedbug level of intelligence and awful personality. But the things that make Donald Trump a frighteningly dangerous man go much deeper than these apparent limitations. What the United States and the world are ...read more
It's no secret that Donald Trump despises immigrants, particularly if those immigrants have brown skin, but the white nationalism of this administration is becoming ridiculous:LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an ...read more
Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol is hardly a identity politics militant. But just as most of the left now recognizes, he agrees that Tucker Carlson is about as close to an ethno-nationalist as you can get. "Now you look at — Tucker Carlson began at The ...read more
With the firing of Roseanne Barr for comparing Valerie Jarrett to an ape, Trump supporters have been looking for a left-leaning celebrity to bring down as retaliation, and after a few days of stirring up pointless outrage, they have settled on Samantha Bee, who called Ivanka ...read more
Disgraced comedian Roseanne Barr has now blamed her disgustingly racist tweet comparing former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape, on the influence of sleeping pills. Emerging a day after her show was cancelled, Barr claimed the following (we can't embed her tweets given she ...read more
Roseanne Barr has always been a lightning rod for controversy, but since the return of her landmark sitcom on ABC this spring, she has gone completely off the deep end. While the reboot drew big ratings upon its premiere, many of those who praised the show in the 90s were ...read more
A new analysis explains the impact of something we already knew: As the Democratic Party grew more diverse, white voters left and started voting Republican. And they left because of pure racism.Whites have slowly but consistently moved away from the Democratic Party. These recent ...read more
Republicans are reaching a new pinnacle of institutional racism by making sure white people get the government help they need while cutting black people off. It's like a return to the good ol' days because once upon a time, white conservatives loved welfare. They loved the idea ...read more
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, Maxine Waters has become one of the most visible icons of the Resistance. Whether she's "shoving" TYT correspondent Michael Tracey, appearing on t-shirts with her catchphrase "reclaiming my time," or openly calling for impeachment following ...read more
I'm old enough to remember when John Kelly being hired as Trump's Chief of Staff was supposed to be a good thing. He was going to be the adult in the room. He was going to quell the chaos. He was going to rein in Trump's worst instincts. We were all so young and foolish back ...read more
Every now and then, a new article (or a repost of an old one) makes the rounds on social media discussing how liberals are more likely to unfriend people over politics both online and in the real world. Usually the context of the post is to show how "intolerant" the left is but ...read more