As I have said before, political ideologies are the new religions and political interest groups and subcultures are the new ethno-cultural/linguistic tribes. By Devin Foley, Intellectual Takeout If you’ve ever spent any time in politics, especially during caucus or primary season, you will quickly learn that there are […]
If Trump manages to destroy the Republican Party he really will have performed a “service to his country.”
This is awesome. Fracture, fracture, fracture…A Congress fragmented into a 3-way fight between neoliberals, social democrats, and Taylor-Greene/Boebert wingnuts would be funny as hell. Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke about adding more security for elected officials and declared that the enemy is within the House of Representatives.
The clerisy kneels before the princess. Team Rising discusses the newest beat announced by the LA Times, “Covering Kamala Harris.”
#Democratsaretherealhomophobes? DC Bureau Chief of The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses a homophobic slur used in a Massachusetts Democratic Committee meeting.
By Sean Gabb Though America is not my country, I have the right to some standing where American politics are concerned. Britain is a satellite state of America, and whoever rules in Washington has much power in London. A further consideration is that what may loosely be called […]
“No bread for the peasants,” says Creepy Joe. Saagar Enjeti breaks down Biden’s early days in office and explains what he’s doing wrong and how he can change it.
It’s interesting how the two sides are now consistently accusing each other of being foreign puppets.
The Trump Party would probably end up being like France’s National Assembly, a right-wing populist party where Uday, Qusay, or Ivanka would eventually succeed Trump as the party’s perennial candidate.
Now the Red Tribe can form a “Resistance” of their own, I guess. Team Rising discusses a heated focus group conducted by Republican pollster, Frank Luntz.
Do it. Hopefully, Bret Weinstein’s Unity movement will eventually get off the ground as well. The more parties the better, and at every level. What we need is a Holy Roman Empire type of situation where there are so many factions they all end up constraining each other. […]
Bring it on. And let’s get the proposed “Peoples’ Party” from the left going as well. Fracture, fracture, fracture… By Matt Welch, Reason “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Donald Trump said at the end of his final speech as president of the […]
There is an interesting new piece from the leftist “antifascist” writer Matthew Lyons. He could be considered a “Blue Tribe fundamentalist” (similar to Chomsky and Carson, but not as sleazy as Reid-Ross or crazy as Gillis) so his work is often ideologically tunnel-visioned but he has an encyclopedic […]
The term “totalitarian humanism” is the one I use for the self-legitimating ideological superstructure of the ruling classes, states, and power elites of developed (“First World”) countries. Totalitarian humanism’s core features would be the following: -masking imperialism under the guise of “human rights,” “collective security,” “duty to protect,” […]
Now if we could just have a President who wrecks the Democratic Party as bad as Trump wrecked the Republican Party. The best thing about Trump was that he made the state look like what it actually is, i.e. the mafia writ large, and having a chaos agent […]
LOL Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the media’s treatment of President-elect Joe Biden.
Duh? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss how the Biden presidency will and will not change Washington.
Some “conservative” Trump fans explain what they like about him. The Daily Signal When trying to decide who to vote for in the next election, ask yourself what has President Donald Trump accomplished in office during his first four years. Has he been working for the American people? […]
An assessment of Trump’s legacy from a left-liberal perspective. By Sean Rameswaram and Lauren Katz, Vox Four years ago, Donald Trump won the presidency and our shared reality hasn’t been the same since. The relentless pace of headlines, controversies, and tweets has rendered the country divided and unable […]
Trump got elected using the strategy proposed by Steve Sailer some years ago (which actually worked, to my surprise). The question is whether it will be sustainable. Saagar Enjeti analyzes the lasting effects President Trump will have on the Republican Party and all of American politics.
Back to Obamaism. Boring, boring, boring… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Joe Biden’s plans for his presidency including executive actions, coronavirus vaccine rollout, and immigration.
By Andrew Korybko, One World As someone who proudly associates himself with the Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, I feel obligated to help my fellow MAGA members better cope with what happened since quite a few of them aren’t taking recent events all that well, and […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World Trump sincerely thought that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run by “draining the swamp” that all of his supporters so deeply despise, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive […]
After DiBlasio, Bloomberg, and Giuliani, New York has nowhere to go but up. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Andrew Yang’s first official New York City mayor campaign video.
Bye. Saagar Enjeti predicts what a Biden presidency will mean for the future of the Republican Party.
Trump makes history. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Politics is definitely going to be more interesting the more wingnuts get elected to offices as opposed to the usual boring corporate lawyers. Team Rising predicts how Trump Republicans might behave under the Biden administration.
Saagar Enjeti analyzes columnist, Ross Douthat’s, article in The New York Times titled, “How the Republican Party Could Break”.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates on President Trump’s potential impeachment.
In light of recent events, it is important to remember that politicians are merely managers who act directly or indirectly on behalf of the wider bodies of major shareholders and controlling interests in the power elite apparatus. If Congress were the “real power,” fruitbats like this chick (or, […]
It’s only been a week so it’s still a bit early to fully assess what the long-term effects of the “Beer Belly Putsch” are going to be, but so far it’s looking like these will be among the outcomes. The legitimacy of the present state will be undermined. […]
The capitalist class strikes back at Trump. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the long list of people and corporations cutting ties with President Trump and other prominent Republicans following the insurrection at the Capitol.
By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservative On January 6th, a mob of Trump supporters staged a coup—a PR coup for the Democratic Party. Liberals have been calling Republicans “fascists” for as long as anyone can remember. The trouble is, there’s never been any real proof. There was […]
So maybe the “new normal” will be that the summer season is for baseball and left-wing riots, and the winter season is for basketball and right-wing riots. Fair enough. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
By Juan Dal Mosa and Warren Montag, Left Voices Some people argue that the far Right is small. Should we be reassured that “only” 45 percent of Republicans, that is, 30 million people, support the riot at the Capitol? We must reject facile economism to understand the Trump […]
I don’t care whether Trump is impeached or 25thed or not, but January 6 had to be about the most jerk-off “insurrection” or “coup attempt” in history. Team Rising reacts to a clip of Senator James Clyburn saying that the House may wait until after Biden’s first 100 […]
“Rising” would be a much better program if it were co-hosted by an an-com and an-cap rather than a Berniesis and a Carlsonite. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti debate whether or not President Trump and other prominent Republican leaders who backed “Stop The Steal” should be impeached or […]
Keith, Emma & RJ 01/09/21 – Mob assault on the Capital, 5 dead, nice photo op, police weren’t prepared, political assassinations, most were peaceful, two-party existential crisis, American Democracy, the Five Crises of the American Regime, “why the wealthiest Americans should prepare for revolt against unprecedented inequality,” Rothbard […]
Crimethinc As a consequence of Donald Trump’s supporters occupying the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a rally promoting his baseless claims of election fraud, the Republican Party is fracturing, setting the stage for the consolidation of a new bipartisan political center—albeit much further to the right than […]
They’re not organized well-enough to “collapse.” To “collapse,” you need some kind of functionally organized infrastructure to start with. Right-wing extremists forum tell-all from inside the radical Trump cults. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
Former Kennedy girl turned Jacobin-wannabe wants to purge the Enrages. Who needs sports or movies when you’ve got this shit for entertainment? However, as politics in the US becomes more extreme and polarized,. calls for literal purges will be more common, which is why the state must always […]
Contra Krystal, I don’t consider the current “breaking point” to be “horrible.” I grew up in the United States when creeps like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan could get reelected with 49 of 50 states. That doesn’t mean I like Trump or Biden any more than Nixon or […]
This is an excerpt from something I wrote 18 years ago. I haven’t seen anything yet to change my mind. The history of human civilization can be divided into three primary phases when considering the evolution of political institutions. The first of these involves an idea that might […]
Increasingly, the Trump diehards resemble something more like Scientology than a political movement. I started noticing back in the 90s that there was a cultural undercurrent that was combining anti-establishment politics with conspiracies, religion, the occult, pseudo-science, science fiction, pseudo-history, mythology, crank economic and legal theories, crank medicine, […]
She has some fairly interesting stories about the inner-workings of Congress in this.
The analysis in this is fairly solid.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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