We’re facing our last chance to show whether the USA has what it takes to be a democracy — Republicans have given up on democracy. It’s been obvious for years. The only difference today is that they’re moving out of the planning phase and into the execution phase. Sadly, being told the GOP was planning to destroy American democracy didn’t have the impact many of us hoped it would…

How the GOP works hard to make sure most Americans can never have nice things — It’s a well-known psychological fact that we humans do not interact directly with the world around us. …

If we understand it, we can expose it; if we expose it, we can end it — How can MAGA cultists be convinced to believe things that are easily disprovable; indeed, blatantly ridiculous? From “Obama was actually born in Kenya” (Trump’s ticket to the White House) to “Hillary is running a child sex ring out of a Washington DC pizza parlor” to “Italians used satellites to change…

Three potential game-changers might upend GOP plans for 2022 and beyond — In a recent post, I argued that Democrats have used the last two years to commit political suicide. Millions of Americans, battered and bruised by four years of Trumpian insanity, managed to scrape together the narrowest of wins for Democrats in the Senate and barely saved a majority in the…

Say goodbye to the folk theory of democracy, folks — Democrats used to be under the impression that they knew how to win Presidential elections. But 2016 changed all that. Clinton’s defeat, Trump’s win: The end of an illusion Hillary Clinton held all the cards that should have predicted an easy victory. She was the best qualified candidate. She presented the most optimistic vision for America. Her campaign had…

Not all Christians are ready to turn our daughters into Handmaids — This article — “Why I’m a pro-choice Christian and believe you should be too”, just published on a Baptist Church website, reminds us that not all Christians are pro-Trump cultural crusaders. One passage caught my eye for its brilliant and brutal exposé of the hypocrisy underlying the current fervor on…

A follow-up — On February 14, I published an article here on Medium titled “What Happens When the Supreme Court Tries to Send American Women Back to the 1950s?” …