Waning Trumpism
In May, on Memorial Day Weekend, the campgrounds were full at Holden Beach and the Trump flags were flying. One guy had a large truck with a banner on it that read “The Silent Majority” and was selling pro-gun and neo-patriotic paraphernalia. The enthusiasm and...
Moscow on the Rio Grande
Back when Stalin was consolidating his power and establishing the police state that would define the Soviet Union, a legend emerged of a boy who informed on his father for hoarding or selling papers or some offense against the state. The father was then sent to a...
It’s over. The rest is just second guessing.
Well, it’s over. Joe Biden announced the end of the Afghanistan adventure yesterday. It will quickly start fading from Americans’ memories. As one person said on Twitter, Americans barely paid attention when we were there. They will certainly not pay attention when we...
A breeding ground for miscreants, fascists, and racists
Madison Cawthorn is what happens when a political party refuses to hold its own accountable and puts power before governing. The GOP decided that Donald Trump could say and do anything with no consequences as long as they held the White House. Cawthorn has learned...
COVID is a Republican
This past week, I had two different people tell me essentially the same story. Both had workers come to their houses to make repairs. The homeowners asked the men if they were vaccinated. In both cases, the workers said, “No, we’re Republicans.” That’s a remarkable...
Biden did what Trump wouldn’t
Nobody should be more excited about what Joe Biden has done in Afghanistan than the ardent isolationists who supported Donald Trump. Not only is he getting America out of a 20 year war with no foreseeable end, he’s largely blown up the foreign policy establishment...
The Indoctrinated
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson released a report on his investigation into the use of Critical Race Theory in schools. Republicans have suddenly embraced the term “indoctrination.” It’s all over my #NCPOL twitter feed. In their minds, our children are being...
Where the hell are the Democrats?
Where the hell are the Democrats? They’ve just had one of the most successful rollouts of any presidency in modern history and instead of celebrating, they're silent. They are acting like they’re in damage control when they should be pressing their advantage. They’re...
Personal Freedom without personal responsibility
The New York Times posted a short video about vaccine hesitancy in Arkansas where COVID is spreading quickly and hospitals are getting overwhelmed. There are a lot of reasons people shun the vaccine, but they have a common thread of misinformation combined with...
Exporting extremism
North Carolina may be the nation’s largest exporter of right-wing nut jobs to Washington. Yesterday, a guy from Grover drove to DC claiming to have a bomb in his truck and threatened to detonate it unless Biden resigned. Back in 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury...
