Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes finds herself dismayed at the failure of the Supreme Supremacist Court to stand up to the man who would be king. A snippet:

In the 1800s, the threat to the republic was slavery. These days the danger is a lawless, power-drunk president defiant in unprecedented ways toward the other, supposedly coequal branches of power, Congress and the judiciary. The court’s 2025-2026 term was a test, I said last fall, and one I feared the court would fail, given its predilection for presidential power — the once-fringe unitary executive theory — and thinly veiled Republican partisanship.

It did fail. And the justices’ stunning complicity with Trump in blurring the separation of powers and menacing democracy demands a response from Congress and voters.

Via the Tampa Bay Times, Scott Maxwell writes of Florida International University’s attempt to withhold diplomas from students who had the unmitigated gall to protest silently and peacefully againstthe Trump maladministration’s secretive police ICE. A snippet:

Once upon a time, college students were encouraged to be free-thinkers. That is, in fact, what Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s other GOP leaders claim to believe … when they’re renaming roads after Charlie Kirk anyway.

But what they really mean is that Florida students should think the way they do or else shut the hell up.

Aside:

When I was a college student (mumble) years ago, I participated in many peaceful, usually silent protests, mostly against the war in Viet Nam (and history has proven us right, but that’s another issue).

My college officials I suspect–heck, I know–did not approve, but they never threatened to punish us for exercising our Constitutional rights in those unTrumpled times.

Now they are coming after the Smithsonian.

I think that the Supreme Supremacist Court’s reasoning in this case is quite clear.

“Well,” said the injustices, “we already have an executive that’s unbalanced. Let’s go all the way and have one that’s unchecked.”

Techdirt takes a deep dive into the Trump maladministration’s attempt to punish Disney and ABC for daring to allow James Talerico to appear on The View. A snippet:

It’s all weird, performative b******t* designed to chill speech and punish ABC because President Trump is a thin-skinned autocrat. It’s also intended to send a message to all major media outlets that if they platform people openly critical of our dim kakistocracy, they’ll be inundated with endless costly legal headaches and bad “press” (read: lots of hostility aimed at them by right wing propaganda outlets).

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*Not redacted in the original, but I’m kind of old-fashioned about some things.

Robert Reich sees a pattern:

One remarkable aspect of Trump’s horrendous reign is how many crises and problems he’s brought on himself – created them out of thin air. Then he brags about how well he’s handled them. And when they go wrong – as they inevitably do – he casts blame on others or on his political opponents.

Follow the link for examples.