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
The right can invent alternate political realities to their blackened hearts' content, but without judges to play their sly bad faith game, none of it matters. None of it has teeth. This is why the right wing for the better part of a half century has been singularly focused on| Bad Faith Times
Unless your friends and family have been vacuum sealed and protected against the brain-altering venom of the Culture Wars, you know “woke” has, quite tragically, become a catchall term for anything a conservative doesn’t like. Anything that scares or annoys a reactionary is woke. Women fighter pilots flying jets| Bad Faith Times
Violent videos on Elon Musk's X designed to incite discriminatory passions are a recruiting tool for fascists.| Bad Faith Times
The love for their children was in every gesture, every word, every look. You could sense it – feel it – even from a distance. A mom and dad, dressed in what appeared to be used clothing – him in an oversized collared shirt with a small hole in the shoulder, wearing oversized| 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