I spend so much time dissecting the nonstop torrent of conservative bad-faith politics that I find myself crying and shaking and dry heaving when I come across conservative good faith, which is – without fail – viscerally frightening. And when that nightmarish good faith bubbles to the surface of mainstream Republican politics| Bad Faith Times
This is the second in a series analyzing The Anatomy of Fascism. Click here to read Part One. Our sixth grade class election was a bitter affair. It pitted a bookish girl named Beth against my buddy Kevin, a jovial, popular class clown who surprised us all when he answered| Bad Faith Times
It can most generously be called a strain of laziness that runs through the conservative movement, or most accurately described as an everlasting authoritarian impulse: The deep yearning for struggle to end, to be done with politics, to stop with the messiness of representative democracy. Probably by now you had| Bad Faith Times
We were meant to believe Texas Republican lawmakers cared about the health and safety of people seeking abortion services. We were told over and over by Oklahoma Republicans that they fretted night and day about the cleanliness of abortion clinics. State by state, Republicans brought forward the most laughable, insulting| Bad Faith Times