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  I have to give Epstein-in-Chief Donald Trump credit for one thing: successfully uniting a large swath of the anti-statist, anti-racist, anti-war, and pro-democracy movement like never before or, at least, since the late 1960s.  Yesterday, Americans across the land, and some non-Americans around the globe(!), turned out in record numbers to protest the corrupt, incompetent, and authoritarian regime currently ruling the nation. As USA Today  relates : "No Kings" protests swept the nation on March 28, with millions of people demonstrating their objections to President Donald Trump and his administration. The over 3,000 protests included colorful costumes, pointed chants and a myriad of signs addressing topics ranging from the Epstein files, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and calls for Trump's impeachment. ... Organizers state that 8 million people participated in the third iteration of the protests, though that number has yet to be independently verified.   In an...

  Once upon a time, the American right wing used to hold historical texts in high regard. Why, I recall countless rants by conservative talk radio hosts who were keeping lists of the number of times President Obama ran afoul of the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, or even Black's common law. Nowadays, not so much. Suddenly, the right has lost interest in the foundations of the American republic and is instead content to continue to implement the GOP convention platform of 2020, which read:  “RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.” In other words, the putative conservative right represents only what Donald Trump says it represents, with its home, the once 'Grand Old Party', being reduced to a rubber-stamp plaything for Trump. But while the party of Lincoln and Reagan may have misplaced its historical texts, the American people have not. That enduring civic knowledge manifested itself ju...

  Consider this a bookend to my previous post  to my previous post on the eve of the "No Kings Protest".  Happily, my earlier post that pointed out that as many Americans, if not more, oppose Trumpist fascism was proven correct by the fantastic turnout across the country. Well done, America! The Founding Fathers are no doubt proud!  While quantifying the precise turnout is difficult, it is clear that at least five million Americans turned out to reject MAGA and its fascist agenda. As Arie Melber pointed out tonight on MSNBC , that is roughly twenty times  the number of people who protested at the height of the Tea Party  movement.  Fantastic!   Sadly, while America did choose Trump, America is now rejecting him. Better late than never, right? Like an alcoholic, sometimes a country has to wake up in the gutter before it realizes it has a problem.  🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽  By contrast, the Dumbkopf Fuhrer's masturbatory birthday celebr...