Tag: Free and fair election
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Republican Kabuki: An Appreciation
On the one hand, the entire Republican Party is utterly full of shit. But, on the other, aren’t all actors? The GOP bailed on governing eons ago. It’s just not their thing. A sizeable chunk of the Trumpian base – the white supremacist core – only ever liked democracy when only they took part in…
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Vladimir Putin Is Waaaaay More Russia’s “Head Gangster” Than Russia’s “Head Of State”
Only in America – in America’s news media – is Vladimir Putin any sort of “legitimate head of state”. But then, for context, America’s news media still thinks of (and treats) the Republican Party as legitimate actors in American politics. Donald Trump has handed our press not merely a smoking gun, but a smoking thermonuclear…