Over time we become partners with our adversaries, and usually in the worst way possible. They act, we react. Sometimes we take the lead and they react. While we may remain distinguishable in our actions, we eventually come to share low moral ground. And whenever we gain an ...read more

The lack of self-awareness among Donald Trump’s Red Hats is staggering. The other night, Trump held another one of his codependent cocaine rants in West Virginia during which the president scolded the “Democrat Party” (there’s no such party) for being “angry and mean and nasty ...read more

If you've watched your paycheck diminish, education costs go up, and your health care costs spiral out of control, most rational people would probably think about not voting for Republicans. Why? Because Americans have been subjected to right wing economics for almost four ...read more

For the last 50-plus years, the conservative movement has been busily working on developing just the right conditions that've led to the rise of, first, Dan Quayle, then George W. Bush, then Sarah Palin, and now, Donald Trump.... To continue reading this article, please go here. ...read more

The Banter Long Read: It's been over two years since Trump oozed his way down that escalator and launched his explicitly racist campaign to be a white nationalist president. Yet, the media is still reluctant to call him racist and his followers still clutch their pearls when ...read more

Bernie Sanders is out campaigning for 2020 and that has a lot of his followers excited. The problem is that his 2020 campaign sounds an awful lot like his 2016 campaign which means he's not going to be the nominee again: He advocated for the policies that are familiar to anyone ...read more

For many years now, we've talked about how Fox News viewers and conservative talk radio listeners are hopelessly brainwashed -- trapped in a marketing and propaganda bubble designed to exploit the kneejerk rage of upper-middle-aged white men who resent that it's not 1957 any ...read more

In the last week, we watched an entire political movement collectively shrug its shoulders over the naked power grab that was the firing of FBI Director James Comey. At first, they tried to pretend it was because of something something Hillary's emails, but after Trump blithely ...read more

It’s been a tumultuous first month in office for the Trump administration, to say the least. Just a partial list of flubs, scandals and failures includes the firing of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (and the rejection of the position by Harward and Petraeus), a legal ...read more

This sort of thing has been discussed before, but it feels like we're all Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II, arriving back at good old 1985 only find that it's been mysteriously commandeered by Biff Tannen and transformed into an unrecognizable hellscape.  But we don't ...read more

If you've been paying close enough attention, you might've noticed it. There's a gurgling strain of goodwill and outreach brewing among certain liberal Democrats during the final days of the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, there are more than a few leftists who are at ...read more