Political Theatre category archive
The Laundromat 0
Thom and Heidi Siegmund Cuda follow the money.
Parks and Wreck 0
Donald Trump continues his assault on what Wallace Stegner called “America’s best idea.”
Aside:
If he can’t monetine it, Trump has no use for it.
DOGE Bull 0
C&L follows the money.
The Lynch Mob 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch offers a theory as to why Congressional Republicans want to persecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for doing his job (and doing it quite well, I might add).
Methinks he’s onto something.
No excerpt or summary will do his piece justice. Just go read it.
The Promise Breaker 0
David wonders whether the Trumpettes are starting to realize that they’ve been conned. (Warning: Language in some of the clips David shows.)
The Hollow Man* 0
In the midst of a longer article about Donald Trump’s continuing cascade of lies, Jamie Stiehm makes a prescient observation:
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*With apologies to T. S. Eliot.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At my local rag, Ronald G. Shafer hears a rhyme from John Adam’s time. In point of fact, it reminds him of 1798’s Sedition Act.
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*Mark Twain.
The Fix Is In(cubating) 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s efforts to fix (or at least undermine) the 2026 elections and offers some suggestions as to what we can do to combat them.
Devolution 0
I never expected that my country would become a rogue state.
But it looks like it’s well on the way to being one.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established, that’s a Republican family value. Here, Emma talks with Katie Bergh about the damage that the Trump maladministration’s cuts to SNAP food benefits have done to families and children.