Justice Thomas is accountable to no one. The GOP will not vote to remove him from office. Justice Thomas will not recuse himself in conflicts of interest let alone resign. He doesn’t have to and no one can make him.
Category: Repulsicans
Conspiracy theories have been a core organizing feature of the modern GOP for the past half century.
Donald Trump deploys conspiracy theory as a political mobilizing tool designed to capture anger at the liberal establishment, to legitimize racial resentment and to unite voters who feel oppressed by what they see as a dominant socially progressive culture. From: Opinion | Why Conspiracy Theories Flourish in Trump’s America – The New York Times No,… Continue reading Conspiracy theories have been a core organizing feature of the modern GOP for the past half century.
Stop calling them Trump Judges
Every single awful judicial activist being called a Trump Judge is a federalist society member picked by the GOP establishment.
Defunding versus Replacing: why are they being covered so differently?
The Washington Post recently published an article on the newest Right wing conspiracy, WRT. White replacement theory. Last December, the Associated Press and NORC conducted a large national poll examining conspiratorial ideas including this one. They found that nearly half of Republicans agree to at least some extent with the idea that there’s a deliberate… Continue reading Defunding versus Replacing: why are they being covered so differently?
Justice Thomas will not resign.
The time and effort devoted to explaining why Justice Thomas must resign or all that is unprecedented about Ginni Thomas’ activism is wasted effort. It would be better spent explaining these two points.
What liberals should learn from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Respectability politics is like treading water and waiting for conservatives to toss you a life jacket. They will never toss it. And when you give up and drown they’ll blame you for giving up. Clearly you didn’t want it enough.
Catch 1/6 is the new Catch 22
If you take the GOP at it’s word, you can not investigate Trump for anything he did before he became president-that’s a witch hunt. You can’t investigate Trump for anything he did while in office because that is subverting the will of the voters. You also can’t take action once he leaves office, it’s too… Continue reading Catch 1/6 is the new Catch 22
How the GOP could push millions of kids back into poverty and blame Biden
It’s a Republican version of win-win. Destroy a social program that works while blaming Biden for the consequences.
How Republicans made themselves undateable
I want you to imagine an early-20 something young woman in prime dating age. Her formative years start after 2010. Ask yourself, what would she have noticed about the Republican party in her formative years?
Orwellian Conservatism
The term for this kind of conservatism is Orwellian.