Culture Warriors category archive
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini dissects Kari Lake’s embrace of establishmentarians. Here’s a tiny bit, where he quotes a right-wing evangelical he-calls-himself-a Christian pastor who supports Lake:
Afterthought:
What if a town has more than one local church? Do they fight out in the Colosseum or cast spells on each other?
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Methinks Atrios makes an excellent point or two.
Courting Disaster 0
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Majority Report crew points out that refugees fleeing for their lives and safety are not “invaders” and call out Texas’s attempt to secede, if not de jure, at least de facto to violate the Constitution.
Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0
Left to their own devices, the Republican Thought Police would ban Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra and Maugham’s Of Human Bondage (one of my favorite books, by the way), not to mention First Samuel.
We are a society of stupid striving to become a society of ignorant.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk minces no words.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Yet more mean for the sake of mean.
Scapegoating Scholarship 0
Sam and Emma talk with professor Nick Kraus about the neoliberal campaign against (small-l) liberal education.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
No surprises here:
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996.
Trump, himself the son, grandson and twice the husband of immigrants, called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn’t have what it takes.”
Much more at the link.
Afterthought:
Ii seems relevant to note that, when Donald Trump’s ancestors arrived in the U. S., the family’s name was “Drumpf.”
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is not a quotation from scripture. This is a Republican Family Value.
Today’s Republican Party has become the party of mean for the sake of mean.
Establishmentarians, Reprise 0
At Above the Law, Thomas Mill decodes de code.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Kansas City Star, professors Victoria Johnson and Karen Piper take a look at the unholy alliance between right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians and today’s Republican Party. Here’s a brief bit of their piece:
Fundamentalists within many religions believe their interpretations are the absolute truth, and that those who oppose their claims to speak for God are characterized as evil and must be converted or destroyed. Such religious beliefs are used to maintain authoritarian political control today in theocracies such as Iran and Afghanistan, and supported the legitimacy of past monarchies in France and Great Britain through the “divine right of kings” — which is one reason America’s Founding Fathers were adamant about the separation of church and state.
“A Notion of Immigrants” Meets “Republican Family Values” 0
it would seem that one of the cardinal Republican Family Values is mean for the sake of mean.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Republican effort to normalize sedition continues apace.