Political Theatre category archive
The New Know-Nothings 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert McCauley discusses a recent New York Times report about the Trump Administration’s attempt to sideline science. A snippet:
They also document a variety of ways in which the current administration has moved to discourage, if not eliminate, the application of scientific findings, standards, and methods to empirical questions pertaining to a variety of public policy issues.
Rand Gestures 0
Rand son of Ron has a hissy-fit.
Decoding De Code 0
Methinks Atrios is onto something.
“The Narrative” 0
Sam discusses the power of “the narrative,” using Ben Shapiro’s statements confused statements about Bernie Sanders as an example. (Remember, Shapiro is speaking to an audience that includes persons who think that the coronavirus comes from beer.)
Ordering Take-Out 0
The Abdication 0
As he contemplates the complicity of the Republican Party with Donald Trump’s conduct, Brian Greenspun is not optimistic. A snippet (emphasis added):
The nightmarish part of this whole thing is the way the Republican-controlled Senate has abdicated its responsibility to perform under the plan conceived by the founders to prevent a return of anything like a King George. That plan is called the Constitution of the United States, and for it to work, everyone has to play his or her part.
I commend the entire article to your attention.