About unity
Joe Biden’s theme is unity. He wants a country that is less divided and rancorous and he’s pledged to return to normalcy. His first few days in office were refreshingly boring. An ABC/Ipsos poll released yesterday shows that Americans believe he can bring the country...
First Amendment obligations
Over at the Carolina Journal, opinion editor Ray Nothstine defends a Lee County school board member’s right to protest. The school board voted to open an investigation into Sherry-Lynn Womack’s participation in the rally at The Ellipse prior to the attack on the...
It’s a new day
It’s over. The reality show presidency has been cancelled. Trump is leaving as a sore loser, never admitting defeat or wishing the incoming president well. He’s on his way to Florida where he will live out his days railing against his enemies, fending off lawsuits,...
Democrats need a long-term investment to engage voters
I’m going to beat my dead horse more today. The News & Observer breaks down the turnout in the 2020 elections and it’s obvious that the only thing that should matter to Democrats is turnout. They underperformed Republicans by seven points. Until that gap closes,...
Corollaries to the Big Lie
Republicans and conservatives are rewriting history as it occurs and creating corollaries to the Big Lie. People like Lindsey Graham are calling for unity and healing after they split the country wide open by validating and repeating the lies of Donald Trump. Other...
The Retrumplican poster boy
Give those Republicans in the mountains credit; they sure know how to pick ‘em. Madison Cawthorn is making a spectacle of himself as he wheels into Congress packing a gun and shooting off his mouth. He succeeds Mark Meadows who became Trump’s chief of staff. Meadows...
The conservative defense of the Big Lie
Donald Trump became the first president impeached twice. The vote in the House included ten Republicans, making it the most bipartisan impeachment in history. Several other Republicans who voted against impeachment disavowed the president and one said he might regret...
The false equivalency of BLM and the Capitol coup
Too many conservatives across social and traditional media are trying to compare the violence that happened in the wake of George Floyd’s death to the assault on the Capitol and democracy that took place last week. Some even try to claim that the riots last summer are...
The lies they told–and maybe believed: What NC Republicans said about rejecting the Electoral College results
Make no mistake, there is an alternative reality to go with the alternative facts of MAGA world. While most of the country is appalled by the assault on the Capitol and democracy that killed four people including a Capitol police officer, the right-wing sees the...
We need accountability before we can have unity
I’m not interested in uniting the country right now. I’m interested in defeating the forces of reaction that threaten our democracy. We have seen these people throughout our history and they are not open to compromise. They are destructive and authoritarian. They tore...
