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DeSantis is More Polished and Less Bombastic Than Trump — But is He Less of a Threat to Democracy?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…’t represent a break with fascism. He doesn’t even represent a break with Trumpism. Trump, the person? Perhaps. But ‘Trumpism’ is what we’ve been calling this particular American version of fascism, which DeSantis embodies as much as anyone.” As a trained historian and scholar of fascism, I have bad news for those who believe fascism will wither and die after being “defeated at the ballot box”: fascism doesn’t care for the will of the electorate….

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…e setting us up to be holding the matches when it goes up in flames. Rabbi Ruttenberg says that “Antisemitism is about pointing fingers at Jewish people, [and is] used by people in power to point at Jews to say ‘it’s them that’s to blame, not us.’ And everybody in the House is aiding and abetting [this narrative].” Ruttenberg also stresses that Democratic support (notably from Sen. Corey Booker) for the anti-BDS bill is “a movement to suppress fre…

Secede, For The Kingdom of Bernie Has Come Near

By Daniel Schultz

…w. Which is to say, they’ll “secede” by continuing to move to places like Portland or Ann Arbor or Minneapolis or any of the other big metro areas, while conservatives cluster in the suburbs and rural areas. It’s less secession than fragmentation, in other words. I hope things don’t shake out this way. Actual secession might do less damage in the long run….

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…t going to be Trump’s hate-filled America” might have been its most important religious statement. Warren—a Methodist like Hillary Clinton—may not have name-checked God or cited scripture in her speech, but she did mention religious bigotry several times among Donald Trump’s other sins. I at least see an implied theology in her statement that refuses “the politics of fear and division” in favor of being a reconciled, if not exactly united, nation….

Naming White Supremacy’s Fears in A Third Reconstruction

By Serene Jones

…a sharpness of intellect when it comes to history, and this very practical politics. He always has very specific things to say about the kind of policy changes we need to be pursuing. The movement he’s building never lets you drift off into an amorphous idealism. Here we are, almost 150 years after the end of slavery, and what we see again and again is progressive change soon followed by reactionary backlash. The cultural aspect of the 200 years o…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…rigger an erosion of Carson’s evangelical support. While finger-pointing, Trump appears oblivious to the many evangelicals who consider the prosperity gospel of the Trump-loving televangelists to be a heresy. Things get complicated when you accuse someone—even obliquely—of apostate beliefs. If you look at the very brief history of Trump’s attempts to question Carson’s faith, he started, in September, with questioning Carson’s piety. That didn’t wo…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…to his Iran policy is due to ‘donors’? No one would say opposition to his Russia policy is due to ‘donors,’ or his Cuba policy is due to ‘donors,’ or his general foreign policy is due to ‘donors.’ So why did President Obama single out those who seek tougher sanctions on Iran and say their viewpoints are based on ‘donors’? It’s important to note, for context, that Menendez himself drafted the bill (along with Republican Mark Kirk) that Obama was s…

Eternal Culture War: Pat Buchanan on Notre Dame and Sotomayor

By Bill Berkowitz

…ultural critic, and longtime conservative spokesperson on cable television news (including co-hosting Crossfire, CNN’s groundbreaking shout-fest), he can always be counted on to stir the pot. Shooting from the Lip Sometimes his tone harkens back to those heady days in 1992 when he collected nearly 3 million primary votes and raised more than $14.5 million in campaign contributions. These days, however, he’s doing his share of pot-stirring on MSNBC…

The Moral Case for Trump?

By Eric C. Miller

…sonally speak highly of his kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity. For Grudem, Trump’s success in business is a testament to his character. It “shows” that he isn’t actually racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic or misogynistic—though exactly how it shows this is anyone’s guess. Grudem “thinks” Trump is a sincere patriot, but never says why. He touts Trump’s “problem solving” in business, but without noting the sleaziness that has often accompan…

Pew Finds Trump-Era Increase in the ‘Evangelical’ Label — And Yes, They’re ‘Real’ Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…s, a process French maintains took place over decades and culminated with Trump, then what exactly are they telling us? The truth is, not much. Without more granular data, we can only engage in (hopefully informed and plausible) speculation about the forces behind the numbers. Who are these white Trump voters who eschewed the “born again” label in 2016 but had adopted it by 2020? I would guess they skew older, and thus hardly represent the wave of…