Trump just launched the newest phase of the GOP’s romance with right-wing media

On Thursday, the White House hosted a summit of right-wing social media gadflies designed to highlight purported bias by major tech and social media companies. While this event seemed uniquely Trumpian with its inclusion of conspiracy theorists and peddlers of nutty ideas — people like Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, Project […] Read more »

Is There Anyone Who Can Unite the Democrats Besides Trump?

… These days, it’s a given that Democratic candidates are going to be on the liberal side on issues like immigration, health care, school and housing desegregation, affirmative action, voting rights, criminal justice reform, taxes, guns and so on. It’s also a given that this stance often involves disruption of […] Read more »

Actually, Trump and his party don’t care about the kids in cages

… The question — do Republicans care about the suffering of asylum seekers? — should not be considered rhetorical. It is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans and evangelical conservatives specifically don’t care about “the stranger” fleeing oppression. That’s effectively what the data tell us. In a recent CNN poll, 93 […] Read more »

Obamacare’s fate will be at stake at 2020 ballot box as well as in court

The extended battle over the Affordable Care Act will push deeper into uncharted waters Tuesday, when lawyers from a coalition of Republican-controlled states and the Trump administration argue for overturning the law in a federal court. With this legal challenge — and promises from President Donald Trump that he will […] Read more »