by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 7, 2023 | • Politics, The Democrats, The Republicans
Listen to or reading Heather Cox Richardson every day on Facebook keeps alert and sane.
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2023 | • Politics, The Republicans
There’s no such thing as a conservative intellectual – only apologists for right-wing power From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we’ve seen a 200-year history of defending the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 16, 2023 | • Politics, Social Security, The Republicans
Well the Republican’ true colors are again showing,,,,”The largest group of House Republicans just released a budget that calls for massive tax cuts for the super-rich and raising the Social Security retirement age, a benefit cut for millions of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 12, 2022 | • Politics, Racism, The Republicans
MAGA Nation is Fighting a Race War Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says only “non-whites” can get anti-viral COVID treatment. It’s a lie, which, like all MAGA-conservatism, stokes racial...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 11, 2021 | The Republicans
Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake One question I have wondered a lot over the past few years is whether the rise of a large-scale conservative social network – a Fox News of Facebook – is inevitable. Last year, during the rise of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 5, 2021 | • Politics, The Republicans
A Running List of the Allegations Against Madison Cawthorn Back in November, Republican Madison Cawthorn was elected to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District at the age of 25, making him the youngest member of Congress. He won his district with...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2021 | • Politics, Characters on the Right, Donald Trump, Partisan Idiocy, The Republicans
America’s Worst Right-Wingers 79% Donald Trump Known for: fascism; racism; sexism; boredom with Constitution; old-white-man-from- Queens cultural rage. Staff pick: Donald Trump 9% Sean Hannity Known for: being pissed-off that we now hate Tucker more. Staff pick:...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 6, 2021 | • Politics, The Republicans
The GOP’s main voter bloc is shrinking The electorate is shifting – and not in the Republican Party’s favor A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 5, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The Republicans
Occupy Democrats on FaceBook July 5th 2021 “A day in the life of Sue the Trump supporter… Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
There Is No Such Thing as a Conservative Workers’ Movement The “statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement,” released just before Labor Day by the fledgling think tank American Compass, opens, naturally, with a celebration of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 24, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Major publications are understandably...
