Americans no longer enjoy self governance. We have to want it back.| Bad Faith Times
The unreality of Putin's monstrous war against Ukraine has found an audience in American right-wing circles| Bad Faith Times
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is nothing but a Trojan horse for far-right politics.| Bad Faith Times
To refuse to wield power from the bench is to give up the fight against the right wing.| Bad Faith Times
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
Musk owns the discourse, the way humans perceive reality.| Bad Faith Times
It's going to be so fucking sweet to see the right wing's best-laid plans go to shit in Wisconsin. Liberal justices on Tuesday night took control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time since 2008. Janet Protasiewicz’s runaway victory over crybaby right-wing judge Daniel Kelly secures a| Bad Faith Times
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
The history of January 6 cannot be muddled. We saw what happened and we won’t be gaslighted.| Bad Faith Times
"They wanted the candidate who would best protect and project their version of the American way of life."| Bad Faith Times
The limits of right-wing populism are going to be tested in 2025.| Bad Faith Times
We're going to need more shit slingers on the left.| Bad Faith Times
The Harris campaign is the first Democratic campaign to understand that once you throw policy details into the wind, they will be used against you, never for you.| Bad Faith Times
You would do well to remind yourself that nothing is permanent in politics.| Bad Faith Times
Storytelling is how fascists gain power. Maybe it's the way they lose power too.| Bad Faith Times
This is the real world, and manipulating the leviathan that is the federal government is not easy and can't be done quickly.| Bad Faith Times
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn't a real fascist, but he sure plays one on TV. He's too soft, too educated, too fake in his hatred of marginalized groups to be a true-blue fascist. DeSantis is smart; he has to feign his ignorance, unlike Donald Trump, who, like so many of| Bad Faith Times
We see it every day and don’t notice it. In our digital lives, where Twitter Blue offers to artificially inflate your reach, for a monthly fee. On vacation with our families, where theme parks allow you to skip long lines, for a price. In our political lives, where bad| 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
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
Don't forget to subscribe to Bad Faith Times and get the latest in existential pain sent straight to your inbox. To watch the faces of 2016 Republican presidential candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Scott Walker betray total exasperation on a debate stage before a| Bad Faith Times
"The fact that I don't believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology scares them."| 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
Joe Biden, who came of age in an era of relative bipartisan comity and spent three decades bragging about his conservative record in the U.S. Senate, walked right up to the truth-telling line last week. He recently called Trump-style Republicans – also known as all Republicans – "semi-fascist." This is a| Bad Faith Times
Among the most darkly interesting parts of the Twitter experience during the Trump era – which I'll define as 2015 until the Big Boy is but a ghost haunting Mar-a-Lago – has been watching people become red pilled in real time. Otherwise normal folks with whom you've interacted for years and years| Bad Faith Times
Technocratic policymaking is the best, most efficient way to get over on the average American voter because explaining such terribly boring technical and political machinations will sooner induce a coma than inspire someone to vote. Scurrying behind the curtain of politics and altering the playing field is the surest way| Bad Faith Times
Twenty-two years have slipped by since The Matrix was first released. Our brains, in the interim, have been beaten and battered by the internet, shattering our realities, obliterating our beliefs, transforming our loved ones into unrecognizable mutations of their former selves. Nothing that’s happening is actually happening, they tell| 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
House Republicans, in their bad-faith attempt to pretend they give a shit about the nation’s debt, are once again pushing the nation to the brink of financial catastrophe. Forgetting how badly this blew up in their faces during the Obama years, Republicans are refusing to raise the country's debt| Bad Faith Times
Tucker Carlson doesn't really believe the Democratic Party is heading a vast plot to replace white Americans with highly-organized brown and black left-wing foot soldiers. Carlson does not believe the Democratic Party is hatching immigration policies designed to flood every corner of the nation with people of color who will| 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
I am sick of Musk's mood determining the course of human events| Bad Faith Times
Don't let the computers tell you Jimmy Garoppolo is elite or the 2024 presidential contest is a coin flip| Bad Faith Times
Young Americans are open to fascism at rates that should frighten everyone trying to hang on to the republic.| Bad Faith Times
With the power of observation, we might see the presidential race is not the coin flip election forecasters claim it to be.| Bad Faith Times
“It makes me question whether members of this board are operating in good faith."| Bad Faith Times
Violent videos on Elon Musk's X designed to incite discriminatory passions are a recruiting tool for fascists.| 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
The right's monopoly on patriotism is no more. This changes everything in American politics.| Bad Faith Times
There’s an accelerational aspect to capitalism that – quite conveniently for capital – is invisible to people living within the system. It is as felt by the subjects of capital as it is unseen. It is destructive, yet unopposed. The acceleration is not toward the future, not toward something better and| Bad Faith Times
It wasn’t all that long ago that I bought a Toyota Prius and was summarily mocked by every man in my life. Driving around in a boxy 2008 Prius was seen as nothing short of vehicular castration by many (mostly conservative) guys in the early years of the Obama| Bad Faith Times
When the right deals in good faith, we must listen. It reveals everything about their actual goals and clarifies the stakes for this and future elections.| Bad Faith Times
For my entire adult life I've been told that I hate America. Conservatives have informed me that I hate my freedom (I like it just fine), I hate capitalism (guilty as charged), I hate the troops (it's the imperialism I dislike, really), and I hate the founders (well, OK, that's| 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
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
Trump has been exposed for what he is: An unquestionably weak candidate with no real ideas or policies who has a solid base of voter support and nothing else.| 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
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
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
In what could very well be a deleted scene from 2006’s Idiocracy, but what is instead a real clip from our increasingly dumb and dangerous political landscape, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Missouri recently used a flamethrower to set books aflame as giddy supporters cheered on. This scene could| Bad Faith Times
Your political worldview invariably comes down to whether you think the point of politics is to be right, or to win. Being right – winning the argument, taking the crown in the so-called marketplace of ideas – has long been the goal of the American center-left. The facts will prevail, the thinking| Bad Faith Times
Walz's complete rejection of the right's odious bad-faith arguments is a refreshing turn in the Trump era.| Bad Faith Times
The fascist call for revolution is, by default, in bad faith.| 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
Republican attacks against Kamala Harris are going to get really weird and really gross.| Bad Faith Times
That Joe Biden is the final bulwark against an organized and determined fascist movement will not do much for my sleep.| Bad Faith Times
One word to break the fascist fever. One word to deflate the power Trump and his cronies think they have.| Bad Faith Times
