Politics of Hate category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Ediberto Roman and Joshua Killingsworth remind us not to forget about Donald Trump’s Republican Family Values.
Doubling Down, Reprise 0
David suggests that, in the face of falling polls, Donald Trump is doubling down on racism, hate speech, and lies in what David contends is a culture war. I think is point is worth consideration.
Full Disclosure:
My two or three regular readers have likely noticed that I pay almost no attention to polls and polling data. I decided long ago not to waste these electrons on polls. It’s difficult enough to understand the past. I’m not even going to try to predict the future.
This, however, is not about prediction; it’s about how the perception of the polls is affecting what’s happening now.
Doubling Down 0
Scott Lemieux decodes de code.
The Trump Kool-Aid 0
Thom and Dr. Justin A. Frank discuss the similarities between Donald Trump and cult leaders and the source of Trump’s appeal to the Trumpettes.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Trump Administration is trying to close the golden door.
Things Were Dullsa in Tulsa 0
Ed at Gin and Tacos suggests that bizarre, convoluted theories that K-Pop and TikTok fans somehow affected Donald Trump’s Dullsa in Tulsa miss the more pedestrian and more likely explanation. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
Sam and his team discuss Tucker Carlson’s hypocritical fragile white guy pity party.
Misdirection Play, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Claire Jack suggests that many tactics we see in our political you-can-hardly-call-it discourse are “emotional and manipulative tactics” that amount to gaslighting on a societal level. An excerpt, referring to the current reaction to the police murder of George Floyd (emphasis; follow the link for the rest.
By the way, the last sentence above captures succinctly why those monuments were erected in the first place.