In some ways, the past two or three years have been a blur. Fear and loathing of Donald Trump have stunted the ability of those of us on the center-left to understand the nature of that same fear and loathing and ultimately our ability to know our own minds. The name, the voice, ...read more

The Donald Trump/Ted Cruz rally we saw on Monday night in Houston would have been inconceivable two years ago. But it happened, and so did the apex of Ted Cruz’s agonizingly long public humiliation. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cruz took a gamble. Like Mitt ...read more

I'll confess here at the outset: my tolerance for Donald Trump and all of his accompanying cruel whimsy has reached an all new low. Chiefly, the shit flinging, without any real accountability for it, is overloading my logic circuits to the point of seizing up -- to the point ...read more

As a student of the presidency, I thoroughly resent someone of such low class occupying that heretofore sacred office. But, regardless, he's still the president, though I won't go so far as to claim ownership. He's not "mine," he's our president, whether we think he won ...read more

As part of his "New Rules" segment on his show last night, Bill Maher revealed at long last the truth about the pro Trump movement #QAnon. In what has to go down as one of the funniest sketches on his show of all time, Maher takes his audience on a journey from the shady ...read more