Robert Reich asks why some Congressional Republicans are only now finding they have a spine. His response:

"Because the MAGA base that every congressional Republican is so afraid of and solicitous toward is falling apart.

They’re finally seeing Trump for what he is: a man without principle except getting richer and more powerful and engraving his name on buildings."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

"A lame-duck president who said he’d make life better for MAGA starting on 'day one' but has made life worse for MAGA by month 10.

He doesn’t even believe in lowering prices. He calls the affordability crisis a 'con' job."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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Robert Reich asks why some Congressional Republicans are only now finding they have a spine. His response:

"Because the MAGA base that every congressional Republican is so afraid of and solicitous toward is falling apart.

They’re finally seeing Trump for what he is: a man without principle except getting richer and more powerful and engraving his name on buildings."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

December 6 - by US Historian Heather Cox Richardson

This made me tear up.

When the US historians are writing about WW2 heroism to rally the US opposition to push back against #MAGA, #Canada needs to start stacking firewood. Fast.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025

December 6 - by US Historian Heather Cox Richardson

This made me tear up.

When the US historians are writing about WW2 heroism to rally the US opposition to push back against #MAGA, #Canada needs to start stacking firewood. Fast.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga

apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.

these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.

chickens coming home to roost in a big way

#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics

"There was no doubt at all. And it just didn't make any difference. And so I think that's like the big picture."

White Christians own the Trump presidency, its corruption, its manifold cruelties, its attacks on immigrants and racial minorities and LGBTQ people, its lethal lies about vaccines and medical research, its war crimes, its destruction of USAID and the resulting deaths of millions of children.

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"There was no doubt at all. And it just didn't make any difference. And so I think that's like the big picture."

White Christians own the Trump presidency, its corruption, its manifold cruelties, its attacks on immigrants and racial minorities and LGBTQ people, its lethal lies about vaccines and medical research, its war crimes, its destruction of USAID and the resulting deaths of millions of children.

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"And 6 in 10 white Catholics have supported Trump every time he has been on the ticket. And it's been very, very steady. So you might think, okay, in 2016, maybe people were giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe they had voted Republican all their lives, and so it was a kind of knee-jerk thing. But by this last election in 2024, everybody knew what they were voting for."

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Jones answers,

"Well, I know. So everybody keeps saying, OK, well, white evangelicals, right, 8 in 10 support him is true. And in the last election it was 85 percent of white evangelical Christians. But I think the thing that you look at the numbers, what everybody's forgetting is, is that 6 in 10 white non-evangelical Protestants supported Trump every time he's been on the ticket."

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Now, what do I mean by that? And that is that, you know, what we see is that every time Donald Trump has been on the ticket, it has been white Christians that have overwhelmingly supported him. And everybody knows, I think by now, the kind of one stat people can quote is like 8 in 10 white evangelicals."

Jonathan Hartgrove replies: "But you keep saying white Christians."

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Robert P. Jones and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove talk about Trump and where his support comes from: Jones says,

"So how do we end up with this authoritarian president that we have and the MAGA takeover of one of our two political parties? And there's really only one answer to that question, right? And that is white Christians have allowed this to happen."

#authoritarianism #religion #Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/advent-hope-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism

"There’s a certain tone the American media adopts when it has decided that the public is asking too much of it: the demeanor of a patient parent explaining that ice cream is not dinner, even though everybody wants it to be.

Last week, The Washington Post published a headline that captured this perfectly with a straight face: 'Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.'”

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/corporate-media-has-decided-your

"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"Something fundamental has shifted. The media, once the antagonist of those who rule, increasingly sounds like the parenthetical aside in a White House briefing. The institutions that spent years insisting they were the last line of defense against creeping authoritarianism now appear suspiciously eager to adjust to it."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #authoritarianism #oligarchy
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"On Tuesday, it followed this up with, 'Actually, today’s food prices are a bargain.' ...

These aren’t stories about food. They are stories about surrender to a president who has declared that affordability 'doesn’t mean anything to anybody' and a 'con job.'”

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
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"There’s a certain tone the American media adopts when it has decided that the public is asking too much of it: the demeanor of a patient parent explaining that ice cream is not dinner, even though everybody wants it to be.

Last week, The Washington Post published a headline that captured this perfectly with a straight face: 'Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.'”

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/corporate-media-has-decided-your

"Trump won the 2024 election in large part because nonwhite Americans, relative to their voting decisions in 2020, moved significantly in his direction. Pew’s survey of validated voters found that black, Latino, and Asian-American voters shifted toward Trump by 16, 22, and 23 percentage points, respectively."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
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