Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Enter the Thought Police 0
Cancel culture, Republican style:
Much more at the link.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Elizabeth Dye marvels at the Republican Party’s sudden conclusion that Executive Orders are bad. An excerpt:
And if memory serves, there was a time when it was perfectly acceptable for the White House to freeze the defense allocation to an Eastern European ally whose leader wouldn’t knuckle under pressure to announce an investigation of a presidential candidate.
But those days are over.
Rand Gestures 0
Warning: Short commercial at the 6:30 mark.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel points out that
Republicans say they don’t like “cancel culture.”
In truth, they like it just fine when they’re the ones doing the canceling.
Follow the link for their evidence.
Read the Footnotes 0
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executes a tour-de-force debunking of duplicitous drivel.
“We’re the Victims Here” 0
Seth comments on Republicans’ reactions to the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Freedom of Screech, Reprise 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson offers a primer on the First Amendment.
The Festering 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Benesch makes the case that hate-full speech corrodes the polity, not all at once, but slowly, over time. A nugget:
Every time Trump has made an inflammatory, hateful, and/or false remark since, journalists and Democrats called it out. But not Republicans, with the rarest of exceptions . . . .