Once upon a time, Donald Trump was illegitimately elected President of the United States. White Republican voters rejoiced because they thought this was their chance to let their inner bigot out. No longer would they be embarrassed to spew racial slurs in the street at random ...read more

Truthout reports on a new recruiting ground for white nationalists of the alt-right: The anti-choice movement. Attacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around anti-choice organizing in their genocidal ...read more

Just for fun, I spent a few minutes taking The Guardian's "How Populist Are You?" quiz. The first image is of several world leaders and populist politicians including Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump scattered on a chart of how populist they are and ...read more

Stop me if you've heard this before: A older white man who dislikes Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party says that the left needs to abandon identity politics and get back in touch with "the working class." [Slavoj] Žižek, a frequent critic of both capitalism and the ...read more

Two years ago, just a few weeks after the 2016 election, I wrote "Yes, You Should Shame Your Trump Voting Relatives At Thanksgiving Dinner." I was still trying to find the words to describe what I knew was coming and I got a ration of crap for it. This was long before the media ...read more

Not content to hang out online and spread hate speech against homosexuals and transsexuals the old fashioned way, the vicious animals of the right wing have taken their mindless rage into the 21st century and made a video game out of hate crimes: A new video game promoted by ...read more

Among the many rumors flying around Michael Cohen's lengthy interviews/interrogations with Robert Mueller and his team is the possibility that Trump has paid multiple women to have abortions: What, indeed, would Trump's fanatically loyal Evangelical base think of their ...read more

I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy for Tucker Carlson right now after a group of about 20 protesters showed up outside his house and started chanting for him to "leave town" because he's a "racist scumbag." From the Washington Post:  “Tucker Carlson, we are outside your ...read more

If it wasn't already clear after last month's antisemitic terrorist attack, it should be crystal clear now: White Nationalists hate Jews. They hate us with a blinding intensity. In fact, the white conservative terrorist that walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh ...read more

On the Alt Right troll farm otherwise known as Breitbart, there is a truly amazing piece of fiction being run today as an "exclusive" that attempts to intellectualize Trump's blatant fascism.  Breitbart hired 89 year old Berkeley professor A. James Gregor to pen the ...read more

On Tuesday, a blue wave is going to demolish the Republican Party across the United States, up and down the ballot. From dog catcher to school boards to governor, Democrats are going to stomp on the GOP and send a clear message to the right that their embrace of Trump's white ...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 ...read more

Take a moment to cry a teeny tiny tear for Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson. He can no longer eat out at restaurants because people scream at him: Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he's "not a restaurant guy anymore" because of the way he's treated when he dines out in ...read more

Until now, there has never been a concerted call for the wholesale destruction of a political party in modern times. That was until Mitch McConnell broke the Senate, the Tea Party broke the House, and Donald Trump finished the job....  To continue reading this article, please go ...read more

Trump continues to draw out the darkest impulses of white Republican voters, egging them on to ever greater heights of depravity and cruelty. For conservatives who refuse to follow him down this path, they're left wondering what the fuck is happening to their fellow ...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

If you're wondering just how dangerous the GOP has become, consider the words of Tom Nichols, a Republican trying, in his own words, to fumigate his party... To continue reading this article, please go here. As a Banter Member you'll get access to our beautiful, ad free digital ...read more

Tucker Carlson's latest rant against immigrants and diversity should come as no surprise from those who have watched the Fox News host morph into a spokesperson for white nationalism in America. Last Friday however, Carlson gave perhaps the most overtly racist diatribe of his ...read more

Republicans are flailing going into the midterms and they can't blame it all on Trump. They've done nothing for the past two years but repeal regulations that kept corporations from preying on the middle class and working poor, tried and failed to repeal Obamacare, making a hash ...read more

With their latest move to strip Latino citizens of their passports and try to "prove" that their birth certificates were forged, the Trump regime takes another step on its path to reversing birthright citizenship for millions of Latinos and creating an entire class of nationless ...read more

Despite the lengthy list of facts showing that the Trump regime is infested with white nationalists, pushes a white nationalist agenda, openly uses white nationalist rhetoric, praises white nationalists, and has numerous ties to white nationalists, the mainstream media is still ...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

With unshakable support from his base even after being directly and credibly implicated in federal crimes, Donald Trump is the most popular Republican president in modern times. Sort of. Sex scandals can't touch him. Corruption can't touch him. Incompetence can't touch him. ...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

A few days before the spectacular failure of the white nationalist march in D.C., Richard Spencer, neo-Nazi scumbag leader of the alt-right, quietly packed up his stuff and surrendered; abandoning his apartment ten minutes outside of Washington D.C., headed for who knows where. ...read more

On Sunday, Jason Kessler and his Nazis proudly marched into Washin..., wait, no, that's not right. On Sunday, Jason Kessler and his Nazis skulked into Washington D.C., just yards away from the temporary home of their orange idol, and then quickly ran off with their tails between ...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