Apr 29, 2020
Donald Trump’s daily shticks, nicknamed “The Five O’Clock Follies,” grew tiresome weeks ago. Granted, there’s a huge cult audience for his toxic stew of serial lies, quack advice, and needy self-love, but his ratings are also boosted by...
Apr 27, 2020
I get why everyone has been so focused on Trump’s latest insanity spasm; after all, it’s rare to hear a president advise people to inject bleach. And, granted, yesterday’s tweet cascade – ranting that “fake” journalists didn’t...
Apr 25, 2020
By Chris Satullo Here’s a sad fact of human existence: We are deeply irrational beings. Me, you, all of us. Some of us, though, are just a bit more aware of how irrational we can be; we throw up occasional defenses against the onslaught of unreason. Then there are...
Apr 24, 2020
Only a mentally damaged grifter like Donald Trump could possibly manage to alienate the senior citizen electorate, which has voted Republican in 9 of the last 12 presidential elections and backed him in ’16. I’ll cop to all the usual caveats about the...
Apr 22, 2020
It was already clear, two years ago, that Brian Kemp had a screw loose. In a TV ad during his successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the right-wing businessman displayed his handguns and rifles – standard procedure in the South, where it’s de rigueur...
