“Who wrote this crap?” The fact that this will not be the universal reaction among the American public to Donald Trump’s ridiculously bad speech in Saudi Arabia today tells you all you need to know about how deep the political divide is here. Trump’s speech was nothing more than George W. Bush-style bromides about terrorism, […]
D.R. Tucker
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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What Can Brown Do for the Democratic Party?
Assuming, improbably as it may seem now, that Donald Trump survives and runs for a second term (hey, stranger things have happened), who will Democrats embrace as their post-Barack Obama, post-Hillary Clinton champion? It’s not too early to speculate: the 2020 Democratic presidential primary will be here before you know it, and we could once […]
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Quist’s Quest: Can A Prairie Progressive Beat the Cult of Trumpism?
What will it mean if Rob Quist can’t seal the deal? The Democratic candidate in the May 25 special election to fill the at-large Congressional district vacated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been heralded as the sort of candidate that Democrats must turn to in order to regain lost ground. Quist certainly has impeccable […]
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Why MSNBC “Lacks” Confidence in Lawrence O’Donnell
Looks like NBC News President Andrew Lack is getting his purge on. Lawrence O’Donnell, the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word, will likely be ousted in early-June. O’Donnell has done an exemplary job over the years of exposing the full extent of Donald Trump’s political depravity; it appears that he was too good at what […]
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Southern Discomfort: The Enemies of Jon Ossoff
When it comes to special elections, this is usually the time right-wingers smell blood…and try to draw some, too. One month from today, the runoff election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel will take place. Between now and June 20, Ossoff will become the right’s Public Enemy No. […]
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Bad Faith: The Religion of Trumpism
We don’t have a prayer of changing anybody’s mind about Donald Trump. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of this week’s revelations about the treachery of the 45th President is the reality that at bottom, only progressives are truly morally outraged. No Republican cheerleader will have an attack of conscience, ever. Those who made the ghastly […]
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Those Who Voted for Trump Threatened Our Institutions
Trump supporters bear full responsibility for the havoc he has inflicted upon this country.
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Cool Down, Everybody: GOP Climate Heroes Are Still Hard to Find
Sorry, but there’s no reason to pick up the pom-poms for Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME), whose votes were admittedly crucial to stopping the latest right-wing scheme to destroy President Obama’s climate-protection efforts. Let’s not label them climate hawks just yet, OK? McCain lost his credibility on this issue […]
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Brothers in Harm: O’Reilly and Beck Would Make a Gruesome Twosome
Former Fox News star Glenn Beck has already proven that it’s hard to keep a bad man down–and now, he wants to revive the career of ex-colleague Bill O’Reilly: I would like to say publicly, honestly — and I know you’re not going to get into this, so just shut the fat trap — it’s […]
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Will Republicans Apologize for Embracing Trump After the 2018 Midterms? They Just Might.
Remember when Republicans used to make fun of Barack Obama for supposedly going on an “apology tour” of foreign countries? This argument was profoundly silly to rational people, which is why it was so popular among right-wingers. The “apology tour” nonsense was little more than an effort to gin up as much hatred as possible […]
