Violence has and always will be a central part of any successful fascist movement, largely because intimidation is necessary when such a small portion of the population supports your hideous policy goals, as much as those exist in a fascist movement.| Bad Faith Times
I have a bad habit of pretending the right-wing mind is some labyrinthian construct that one can only comprehend by sinking oneself into the deepest depths of conservative thought. Then I see right wingers begging machines to be racist and I realize how fucking stupid I’ve been, how needlessly| Bad Faith Times
I like to imagine chronically online Republican staffers in frenzied meetings with lawmakers, begging and pleading with them to use the barely-coded power of “woke” in every social media post and cable TV interview and stump speech and press release and congressional address. Keep saying woke, these internet-addicted staffers say,| Bad Faith Times
"They wanted the candidate who would best protect and project their version of the American way of life."| Bad Faith Times
We're going to need more shit slingers on the left.| Bad Faith Times
"The fact that I don't believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology scares them."| Bad Faith Times
You would think providing food for children would be a bipartisan issue, or even a nonpolitical one. You would, of course, be wrong about this. Making sure kids get food every day was the goal of Minnesota Democrats when they took it upon themselves to pass legislation providing free school| Bad Faith Times
I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes. Too many. Way too many. Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying| Bad Faith Times