Stable Genius Liberal

Donald Trump ditched free market ideology for nationalism — and it’s working

Nationalism gets confused for fascism too easily.

The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters

A quick look at the people suing Trump reveals, well, people who might otherwise have been inclined to be Trump voters. They’re people like Tarla Makaeff, a former model and would-be fashion entrepreneur—and currently a yoga instructor—who filed suit against Trump in 2010. She’s now, according to Yahoo, asking to be removed as a named plaintiff in the class-action case, claiming Trump is threatening to financially ruin her.

Worth a read.

Paul Krugman is now accusing Bernie Sanders of “deep voodoo” economics.

Krugman’s right of course. But the best comment is here:

One of the signatories of the letter, Austan Goolsbee, has also taken Sanders to task for claiming that revenue under his single-payer health plan would match the projected addition, by critics’ estimates, of some $2 trillion to $3 trillion to the deficit every year. He told the Times that Sanders’s “puppies and rainbows” agenda had “evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars.”

To actually pay for Sander’s plans, you’ll need to raise taxes on everyone making over 80k. Not just the top 0.1% as he suggested. Math may have a liberal bias, but it doesn’t have a Bernie Bro bias.

Glenn Beck: God took Antonin Scalia to help Cruz win

Hey Glenn, why did God take away your TV show and audience?

Rand Paul: Obama Has ‘Conflict Of Interest’ In Appointing SCOTUS Nominee

It’s not a conflict of interest for Rand Paul to vote for the “doc fix” that sets the reimbursement rates Doctor Paul receives-but it is a conflict of interest for Obama to carry out his duties as written in the constitution?

Donald Trump finally went too far for Republicans

Trump said that invading Iraq was a disaster, that the country was misled into invading Iraq by the Bush administration, and that the claim that Bush kept the country safe from terrorism is ridiculous because 9/11 happened on his watch.

These are all things that a majority of voters agree with.

Classic Trump

Elect me and you can participate in my awesomeness.

Josh Marshall sums up every Trump speech.

Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History

This is what censorship via political correctness actually looks like. It’s not college kids yelling in front of the administration building. It’s state legeslatures forbiding discussion because it offends them.

Political correctness is a right wing phenomena.

This 1970s high school textbook has some insane lessons on slavery

People who were taught this are running the public and private institutions of the south.

The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter

In fact, I’ve found a single statistically significant variable predicts whether a voter supports Trump—and it’s not race, income or education levels: It’s authoritarianism.

That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations. And because of the prevalence of authoritarians in the American electorate, among Democrats as well as Republicans, it’s very possible that Trump’s fan base will continue to grow.

Worth a read.