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Chauncey DevegaSalon |
The Age of Trump and the larger democracy crisis are not “just” an existential danger to the country and its present-future. They are a moral and...
During a rally last Saturday in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the last such event before his criminal trial began on Monday in Manhattan, Donald Trump...
Saturday’s attack on Israel by Iran is an extreme escalation in the decades-long shadow war between the two countries, one that entered a new phase...
The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials is finally underway in Manhattan. This trial, on campaign-finance charges related to Trump's...
Last weekend, Donald Trump issued a new barrage of threats against Americans who decline to vote for him or who otherwise resist the resurgence of the...
In a years-long quest, the American news media continues to send its journalists out into the heart of red state America with the goal of discovering...
Once again, Hillary Clinton is absolutely correct. During an interview last Monday on the "Tonight Show," host Jimmy Fallon asked Clinton the...
Public opinion polls show a 2024 election that, at this point, is very close. President Biden appears to be ahead in several key battleground states....
Investigative journalist Max Marshall’s new book "Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story" is much more than just a “true crime” story about...
Donald Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be a very dangerous man. As seen on Jan. 6 with his coup attempt and the lethal assault by his MAGA...
American fascism is a form of political religion. It is a social force based on faith and emotion and corrupt power more than a coherent ideology...
Fascism is a type of political religion. Donald Trump is preaching the religion of fascism. History has repeatedly shown that fascism and other...
Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil. Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal,...
It has long been a truism in modern America that “politics stops at the water’s edge.” Of course, like most truisms and folk wisdom, that is not...
Throughout the 20th century to the present, the American right has embraced authoritarian and other anti-democratic values both here and abroad....
Donald Trump’s already abominable behavior has been getting much worse in these last few weeks – and there may be a physiological component to it....
Donald Trump’s obvious public challenges with speech, language, and thinking are continuing to get worse. At a recent rally in Ohio, the former...
When I think about Donald Trump, I usually visualize Larry ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes, Andy Griffith’s character in Elia Kazan’s 1957 film “A Face in...
The Trumpocene is not normal. If you accept that it is normal or otherwise become habituated to it, the neofascists and other enemies of democracy...
America loves its guns more than it does its children. We “the Americans” are very sick from gun violence. The most recent “high profile” mass...
Donald Trump is basically a political cult leader. His MAGA followers are his flock. A cult has the following features: It is a collective...
Since at least 2016, a brave, determined, and stalwart group of psychologists and other mental health professionals have been trying to warn the...
Last Thursday, Joe Biden went before Congress to deliver his State of the Union speech. To quote the legendary “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in the cult...
During last week’s State of the Union speech, President Trump fired a series of broadsides against Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. President...
Power not used is power wasted. Fascism is corrupt power. What if Donald Trump defeats President Biden and takes control of the White House in 2025?...
Donald Trump is not the same man he was eight years ago. Moreover, he is not the same man he was even three years ago in terms of his apparent mental,...
It has become undeniably clear and obvious to any reasonable person that Donald Trump is experiencing increasing challenges with his speech, language,...
Barring an unforeseen event, Donald Trump will be the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee. Last week, Trump defeated Nikki Haley by 20...
Donald Trump is charged with 91 felonies in multiple criminal trials and is facing the reality that he may have to serve hundreds of years in prison...
Donald Trump is a human chaos engine. It is a function of both his personality and his politics. He has shown himself to be what mental health...
Since at least 2016, some of the world’s leading mental health professionals have been sounding the alarm that Donald Trump appears to be...
Do you accept Donald Trump as your personal lord and savior? Most people, be they Christians or not, would laugh at such a question given that Donald...
The so-called walls have not yet fully closed in on Trump and his political crime spree, but they most certainly are moving and appear to be gaining...
Donald Trump was in his full glory over the weekend at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference. For his MAGA people,...
Donald Trump has demonstrated, in repeated and dangerous ways, that he appears to be profoundly unwell mentally and emotionally. Some of the...
Donald Trump has frequently hinted or implied that he has been chosen by God as some type of prophet and messiah, a divine champion in the 2024...
Donald Trump is not a “godly” or “Christian” person. He does not regularly attend church. He is currently facing hundreds of years in prison...
You won’t like Donald Trump when he gets angry – and right now he is very, very angry. If you were fined the equivalent of more than 400 million...
Last weekend the American mainstream news media, especially its elite agenda-setting outlets such as the New York Times, had a choice to make. They...
President Biden and Donald Trump are tied in the early 2024 Election polls, and what many observers have described as “the longest election” in...
Like a mob boss running an extortion racket, in a speech on Saturday Donald Trump signaled to Vladimir Putin that if Russia invaded Western Europe and...
As a personal rule, I do not usually write recaps or reviews of TV news programs. There is an entire machine for the 24/7 news machine to amplify...
There is nothing funny about Donald Trump and the extreme danger to the country and world he represents. To laugh now is a dangerous distraction and...
When President Biden reportedly calls Trump a “sick fu*k” he is correct in a way that he likely does not intend – and one that has a much more...
In private, President Joe Biden reportedly uses highly descriptive and flowery language to describe Donald Trump. Politico reports: President JOE...
Extreme wealth and income inequality will eventually destroy a real democracy. Why? Because that disparity of power and resources allows a relatively...
The 2024 election is set to be the longest general election match-up in modern American history. This is true both in terms of the number of days and...
Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he is a lawless person — but his malign influence extends far beyond himself. Trump’s “dangerous...
While reading a recent Thomas Edsall essay in the New York Times, three famous quotes kept repeating in my mind: “We have met the enemy and he is...
Donald Trump may control the Republican Party — but his power is not 100 percent absolute. As shown in New Hampshire and Iowa – and throughout...