If you can’t manage, pretend to manage. Friday’s late night deal to avoid default pits the future against the present, which is why — for now — McCarthy prevailed: the Republican Party owns the present. ‘The Republican Party is the party of the present. The Party creates the chaos, grabs…

Curated for a thirty-second attention span. With Tucker Carlson out of the way, Fox can resume business as usual: shift the klieg lights from a personality cable host to an audience who will pay repeatedly to see and hear their grievance(s). Hate-news for the dispossessed; a cynical breach of the public trust for monetizing disaffection. There’s money to be made. So let’s do this white ‘thingy.’ May 4

Something died in Wilmington yesterday. Now “we” get it: Trump isn’t the first former President to be indicted, he is the first former President to be indicted on criminal charges… that qualifier became obvious today on the steps of the Wilmington Delaware Federal Courthouse: Dominion settled and withdrew their civil…

History doesn’t repeat itself; people drift backwards. April 3–6 There were few political lessons learned this week. There were no ‘aha moments.’ Rather one could argue that this week’s political surprises were about culture, not power; disturbance, not democracy; tradition not repression. Anything but the dream of transformation. …

Clouds of Doubt Good evening and welcome to Episode 11, The Trials of Lindsey Graham, Water Carrier (*). Tonight’s episode, “Clouds of Doubt,” finds our hero, the Senior Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, bereft as his friend and golfing buddy, the former President is facing criminal charges for election fraud and conspiracy…

A political mis-course is about to go viral. “There will be no handcuffs.” -attributed to the legal defense team of Donald J. Trump, March 30, the day a New York State Grand Jury announced that it would indict Donald Trump. March 30 Now…now, we know who we are defending. Now…

A reflective moment in Nashville. Why are you here? Do you enjoy doing this? Why do you keep doing this? -survivor of Highland Park Illinois mass shooting who was visiting Nashville and attended a press briefing at Covenant Elementary School, March 27 America is losing its youth. America is neglecting…

What Carmen, Holly and Fern share. Holding hands driving a convertible over the rim of the Grand Canyon for “wild women” is not the ‘way to go.’ (1) Rather, getting stabbed and dying in your lover’s arms, finding your cat, and returning ‘home’ to reclaim your odyssey provide better story…

The Republican Party will go to any length to protect Trump from criminal prosecution. The question, no one seems to ask convincingly, is “why?” If Trump goes down, what happens to the Republican Party? Like a lamprey eel which sucks the blood out of its victims while strangling them, Trump’s…