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
Last August, Chris Cantwell, proud Nazi douchebag, was filmed by Vice as he was getting ready to march in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was ready to stomp some skulls for the white race! He was going to uphold the 14 words! He was going to make America white again! A few hours ...read more
Even as the protest in Lafayette Park grows after Trump's disgraceful public fellatio of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, it's important to never lose sight of the human cost of Trump's white nationalist policies. Here is Jefferson. He's an ordinary 6-year-old boy stolen by ICE ...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
Jane Coaston at Voxhad an article on Monday explaining how scared the GOP is of the increasing number of white nationalists, Nazis, and Holocaust deniers running as Republicans: As Democrats try to hold onto a polling lead in advance of this fall’s midterm elections, they have ...read more
On Monday, I wrote about a drunken racist moron yelling at a Puerto Rican woman, demanding to know if she was a citizen. Not a day goes by without a new story about this kind of white entitlement. All across America, white people are taking it upon themselves to police nonwhite ...read more
When we first learned of the cruelty of the Trump regime's family separation policy, it immediately occurred to me that these children, some as young as three months old, were going to be abused, not by accident, but deliberately. And god fucking dammit, I was right: Olivia ...read more
For the second year in a row, Penzeys Spices is running a special to celebrate their opposition to the roll out of Donald Trump's white nationalist campaign by offering free Mexican Vanilla Extract: Three years ago today, 7-6-15, our President rolled out his campaign including ...read more
Republicans continue to lie about ICE "protecting" America and how, without them, we would have "open borders" overrun with hordes of vicious animals that, to a normal person, look suspiciously like people fleeing violence in Central America. The press would desperately like ...read more
America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. White Republican voters, on the other hand, want to make it the land of the enslaved and home of fearful and for that, there is nothing more patriotic than telling them to fuck off on America's birthday. But in these ...read more
In its continuing efforts to normalize Donald Trump's mad dash to white nationalist fascism, the New York Times produces article after article after article of nonsense to make both Trump and his white Republican voters seem like reasonable people. They're not. They put children ...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
One of the mysteries of the rise of Hitler was how the average German, as opposed to the die hard Nazi, could follow the cult of a madman. A new report by Jeremy W. Peters at the New York Times is shedding light on the psychology of regular people losing sight of their own ...read more
Donald Trump wiped out any chance he had of getting his tiny orange hands on a Nobel Peace Prize and he has no one to blame but himself and his rampant racism. In the likely event you've already forgotten, Donald Trump met with the murderous dictator of North Korea just 9 days ...read more
Upfront, I'd like to say: Fuck you Corey Lewandowski but also thank you. It's dogshit people like you that really reveal the true face of the American right wing. Well done! Last night, Rachel Maddow did something she's never done before. She broke down crying on air and cut her ...read more
Trump and his white nationalist regime are having a grand ol' time tearing families apart at the border and stuffing brown children in kiddie concentration camps. We now know they've been planning to do this from the beginning, knowing that such cruelty would excite Trump's white ...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
The right is scrambling to justify the cruel and inhuman torture being carried out against immigrant children. It's not going well. In hindsight, it's clear that the Trump regime thought that putting immigrant children into cages would be a winning strategy. Maybe they thought ...read more
Now that we've reached the morally indefensible stage of fascism, the part where we put children into concentration camps, the Trump administration is citing the Bible to defend what common sense tells us cannot be defended: Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday used a Bible ...read more
Very soon now, we're going to wake up to screaming headlines about the kiddie concentration camps Jeff Sessions is creating. We will find out that they are rife with sexual predators, child abuse and sex trafficking. The Democratically controlled House and Senate will investigate ...read more
A new study shows that, yes, the right wing really is opening its arms to fascism and, yes, it's absolutely because they're racist assholes: Political scientists Steven V. Miller of Clemson and Nicholas T. Davis of Texas A&M have released a working paper titled "White Outgroup ...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
I've written about this before but when Donald Trump was first elected, my mother-in-law proudly announced she had voted for him and I explained to my wife that I would never speak to her mother again. Her mother had voted for white nationalism and as a Jew, that was intolerable. ...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