It’s the most romantic political notion: A working class coalition putting aside their cultural and racial and religious differences to elect legislators who will ram through explicitly pro-worker policies and save us from the yawning darkness of creeping fascism in the United States. I get the appeal, truly. The| Bad Faith Times
It was February 2003 and we were so steadfastly certain of our rightness in opposing the Iraq War as not only a strategic blunder on the part of the U.S. government, but as a profoundly immoral attack that would surely kill hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents. We| Bad Faith Times
They're not going to require violence next time. Next time, suburban fascists are not going to need to gas up their private planes and fly to D.C. and descend upon the Capitol. Next time, it will be easy. The coming Republican coup is going to be executed without a| Bad Faith Times
I would like to think the red wave that would have ushered post-democratic authoritarianism failed to swamp the United States because enough people saw through the right wing's bad faith, or, at the very least, finally internalized the irreversible harm the right could do to the republic if their bad| Bad Faith Times