Politics of Hate category archive
Moore of the Same 0
Dana Hall McCain, writing at AL.com, considers Roy Moore’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for an Alabama Senate seat and concludes that his underlying campaign strategy is that hate sells.
Suffer the Children 0
In case you haven’t noticed, that’s now a Republican Family Value.
We have gone from the American Ideal to become the American Ordeal.
Concentrate on This 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the apathy towards the barbaric treatment of migrants along our southern border. A snippet:
These frivolous spats effectively overshadow the tough-to-stomach reality that migrants are being penned in cages and locked in freezing-cold holding cells — that is, when they’re not fenced in under bridges and made to sit on the ground in 100-plus degree weather.
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Eladio Bobadilla, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, put it this way in a recent post on the Latino Rebels website: “[Conservative] commentators are wrong, both historically and morally. Not only is it historically accurate to call these detention centers concentration camps, but the uproar reveals a curious and cruel irony: Conservatives are more outraged by the terms used to describe the detention camps than they are by the conditions inside them.”
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One does the math.
Twits on Twitter 0
Peter St. Onge has a sobering experience.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
“Fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smears.”
Moore of the Same 0
At AL.com, John Archibald notes that Roy Moore is again going to run for the Republican Senatorial nomination. As he reviews the field opposing Moore, Archibald reaches a distressing conclusion:
Boy, was I wrong.
Because Roy Moore already won.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
A Bumble of Contradictions 0
Dana Milbank examines the dialectic of Trumpery.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Trump’s ability to function is a matter of much dispute, but if the ability to hold opposing thoughts in mind is a measure of intelligence, Trump is a very stable genius indeed. Nobody contradicts himself as forcefully, fluently and frequently.
The Entitlement Society 0
Thomas Chatterton Williams points out that not being hate-full is not a high hurdle to surmount.
Sacrifices 0
Kimberley A. Johnson wonders how many more must die at the hands of the Trump administration before Americans react.