By Zack Beauchamp Vox Americans have long believed our country to be exceptional. That is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: No other established Western democracy is at such risk of democratic collapse. January 6, 2021, should have been a pivot point. The Capitol riot was […]
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
Is a “second civil war” possible? On the latest “Reality Check with John Avlon,” historian Professor Edna Greene Medford and CNN’s Elle Reeve talk about the American history of violent struggles to hold onto power – from Reconstruction to January 6.
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
I have no problem with the idea of New York City being a sanctuary city for crime. By all means, turn NYC into a Stirnerite homeland where theft is just another economic activity. By Charles Fain Lehman, Wall Street Journal Manhattan’s new district attorney undercuts Mayor Adams’s initiative […]
By Antonia Hitchens The Atlantic In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho? In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine […]
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
By Stephen Marche, The Guardian The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most […]
By Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee’s leaders have already shown an eagerness to bend to Donald Trump at the sacrifice of American democracy. The day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, my husband asked me why I wasn’t happier: He thought I’d be in […]
By David Remnick New Yorker A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is […]
By Peter T. Coleman Newsweek Coleman, PhD, is a Professor at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace. His latest book is The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps […]
By JOHN F. HARRIS Politico For most of my reporting career, to refer to some dispute or another — over a judicial nomination, perhaps, or an uproar over a proposed shopping mall near a battlefield — as “a new Civil War” was to reach for a metaphor. On […]
By Peter Ramjug Northeastern University Civil War is coming,” a New Jersey woman posted on social media days after participating in last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol. Indeed, America had not experienced a disruption in the peaceful transfer of power like what happened a year ago since the […]
By Amanda Foreman, Sunday Times Experts on conflict predict unrest, but America has a long way to go before it is as divided as it was in 1861. iolence is in the air. No one who saw the shocking scenes during the Capitol riot in Washington on January […]
By Konrad Yakabuski Toronto Globe and Mail It will be up to future historians to determine whether the Jan. 6 Capitol riot marked the beginning of the end of American democracy. But that has not stopped countless observers from marking the first anniversary of a day that will […]
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post Journalist Stephen Marche envisions multiple scenarios propelling the country into conflict. THE NEXT CIVIL WAR: Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche. Avid Reader Press. 238 pp. $27. To glimpse the coming dismemberment of the United States of America, just stop by […]
By Paul Brandus, Market Watch America’s heavily armed far-right extremists fit the mold of those who’ve started insurrections in other countries. When I was writing my first book, a history of the White House and the presidency, I came across a quote from John Adams. “Remember,” he wrote […]
By Michelle Goldberg New York Times Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who’ve lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn’t see it coming. “They’re all surprised,” she said. “Even when, to […]
Well, this is some real comedy. Unfortunately, this is what I predicted would happen under a Bidenist regime. By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large (CNN)Dick Cheney is nobody’s RINO (Republican in name only). The former vice president — and member of Congress — has long been an unapologetic conservative. […]
By Matt Taibbi The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene. Former Vice President Dick Cheney visited the House of Representatives yesterday. He and his daughter Liz were the only two Republicans […]
Florida Man. By Catherine Garcia, The Week One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Florida has had more residents arrested in connection with the riot than any other state. Since last January, 76 Floridians have been charged with participating in the assault on the Capitol, and at […]
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
By Michael Schellenberger The backlash to progressive Wokeism, or victimology, has been brewing for years. Why did black moderates tip it over the edge? For a period of time last year it felt as though everything having to do with race, crime, and policing had changed. The killing […]
National divorce does not have to result in a civil war.
By Christian Parenti, Nonsite.Org How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble. In the summer of 2021, a social justice training exercise called the Privilege Walk made headlines when […]
By Matt Lewis, The Daily Beast Not long ago, the conservative movement I’ve been a part of for decades was square, wonky, and straitlaced to a fault. Now, it’s weird and warped. The conservative movement is depraved and decadent. And no, I’m not saying this because of the […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic One year ago, the siege began. Politicians and their staffers ran for cover as the Capitol effectively became a war zone. When the haze cleared, we vowed not to forget. But the attack on American democracy did not end that day. A […]
This just keeps on getting better. The neocons continue their multi-front strategy of forming an alliance with neoliberals and progressives while embedding themselves in Trumpism and forming their own parallel Trumpism without Trump (“national conservatism”). They are also seeking to weaponize J6 as a pretext for increasing state […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week On its one-year anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris said the date of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will be remembered in a similar fashion as Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harris delivered remarks Thursday on the anniversary of […]
Well, that’s kind of the point. The partisan sides are essentially rival countries at this point. By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden spoke Thursday regarding the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, delivering a potent and powerful address in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His speech, held […]
This piece of shit can go fuck himself. By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment […]
By David Faris The Week Democrats failed to coup-proof America after the Capitol riot Tomorrow marks a year since the outgoing president of the United States instigated a mob of his most fervent supporters to sack the Capitol building, where they set about taking selfies, occupying offices, and […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week One year ago today, a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the heart of American democracy trying to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after his election loss. Egged on by Trump and his top cronies, they seriously injured dozens of Capitol Police […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week How the left’s 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s right, the assorted fanatics, thrill-seekers, and nutjobs who stormed the Capitol one year ago today have surprising precursors. The respectable backgrounds of […]
By Christopher Jones, P. Nick Curran, Akela Lacy The Intercept Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump. Eric Barber was elected as a Democrat to the Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia in 2016. […]
by Timothy W. Luke, Telos Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. In this series of critical essays written over the course of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, from its chaotic early days to its calamitous end, Timothy W. Luke explores how the recent twists and turns in […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times The hardened-steel baton made the most disturbing sound as it bounced off Victoria White’s skull. It varied between a hollow click and a deeper snap, depending on where on her head the metal weapon made contact. “Please don’t beat her!” a man […]
By Sean Gabb Something known to everyone in England connected with independent education is the Oriental takeover of the scholarship system. In all the competitive examinations for bursaries and scholarships, the top marks go increasingly to boys from the Far East. I make part of my income from […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made on CNN by a top medical ethicist about how to handle unvaccinated Americans in the healthcare system and country at large
Robby Soave weighs in on who must be held responsible for the Capitol attack on January 6, and whether Democrats’ continued outrage is justified.
Krystal and Saagar’s kick off the January 6th show by diving into the real underlying reasons why American democracy is in crisis and how the elites have only made it worse
0:00 The latest attempt to get Amy fired from Penn Law 5:41 Should we be worried even about elite non-Western immigration? 19:21 Amy: “There’s nothing wrong with stereotyping” when it’s done correctly 26:28 Glenn: America need immigrants if we’re going to compete 34:23 Why aren’t we looking harder […]
By Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One After the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol that left members hiding in offices or crouching under desks on the House floor, lawmakers clamored for a military quick reaction force that could protect against more violence. One year after the attack, the idea […]
This article inadvertently or indirectly points out the limitations of “criminal justice reform” within the context of the current state-centric system. The problems that this writer is describing are not rooted in the claim that drug decriminalization has gone “too far.” The problem is that drug decriminalization has […]
It is interesting that the serious discourse on issues pertaining to crime has largely shifted from “law and order conservatives” vs “soft on crime liberals” to moderates vs leftists. By Michael Shellenberger And why we can fight crime without mass incarceration. Over the last two decades, progressives came […]
Quite a bit could be learned about Western politics by examining electoral patterns in India. The Democrats are an alliance between the Brahmins and Dalits and the Republicans are an alliance between the Vaishyas and Shudras, while the Kshatriyas are divided between the Democrats and Republicans, depending on […]
Michael Lind, Tablet It’s within metro areas, not between the states. America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy. […]
WATCH HERE From the comments: The fact that John Sullivan so easily walked into the Capitol that day, without so much as anyone batting an eyelash, DISPROVES the fanatical belief, held even by Sullivan, himself, that all Trump supporters are inherent hWhite Supreeemists. Holding Sullivan’s explanation of the […]
By Hank Kennedy Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today. In 1952 there existed twenty comic book publishers, publishing six hundred fifty titles a month, and employing one thousand workers. By 1956, the industry had […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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