Joshua Holland
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Trump has been inciting white people since
Predicting what was likely to come next during Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency was tough because we usually found ourselves navigating uncharted waters. But you didn't need to be clairvoyant to know that if he lost, he would claim that the election was rigged and incite his base to violence bec... → Read More
How the gun lobby helped fuel the deadly Capitol insurrection
There is ample blame to go around for the MAGA insurgency that has so far resulted in eight deaths and left the rest of us on a knife's edge. A number of those charged for storming the Capitol have made it clear that they believed they were heeding on Donald Trump's call to action. Every Republican ... → Read More
A disgraced Donald Trump will leave office as one of the biggest losers in history
Donald Trump will end his disastrous presidency violating the central, overarching promise he made to the public in 2016: That he and his supporters would win so much that they'd be "sick and tired of winning." Trump vowed that he alone would bring back lost manufacturing jobs, restore white, Christ... → Read More
Gloomy Democrats could be headed for a blowout victory
At The Daily Beast, Molly Jung-Fast writes about feeling discontent about her party's likely defeat of Donald Trump. "Liberals like myself wanted a decisive victory against Trump," she writes. "We wanted to show the rest of the world that America wasn't a country of racist idiots. We wanted to strik... → Read More
A right-wing powder keg: How conservative media is convincing Trump fans that he's winning bigly
Over the weekend, NPR interviewed some anxious voters. One, a Trump-supporter, said that his biggest worry was that Trump needed to win in a landslide to keep the left from claiming that the election was stolen. That Trump would win wasn't in doubt. For those who get their news from the conservative... → Read More
Trump forced Republicans into the dumbest corner
Republicans are stuck on the wrong side of public opinion on Covid-19, and that's probably the biggest reason why they've struggled to make up any ground against their Democratic opponents. Back in March, I noticed a trend that was unusual in our polarized times: GOP voters were telling pollsters th... → Read More
It's been one faceplant after another as Trump and the GOP try to recreate 2016's perfect storm
Donald Trump is very, very bad at politics. In 2016, he lost the popular vote in both the GOP primaries and the general election. His net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) in FiveThirtyEight's average went underwater on his 15th day in office, and has remained right around -10 ever since.... → Read More
Donald Trump is running a historically awful campaign
Donald Trump is infamous for ignoring any advice that runs counter to his "gut." That’s a good thing for his opponents; it’s clear that he would be better served listening to seasoned political operatives. In May, Politico reported that his “team built a comprehensive 2020 reelection plan a → Read More
Here’s the big mistake the media is destined to make in 2020 – A
Here's an easy prediction: Over the next six-to-eight weeks, dozens of columns will be published that follow the same template. They'll begin by reviewing the polls and discussing how "daunting" Trump's prospects look at present, usually with a focus on how poorly he's faring in Wisconsin, Michigan → Read More
Here’s the real reason so many on the right are terrified of antifa – A
With his tweet suggesting that Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old man who was violently shoved to the ground by Buffalo police during a protest last week, may have been an antifa super-ninja, Trump's ooga-booga about anti-fascist activists descended into farce. And he isn't alone. Locals on the Olympic → Read More
Here’s the real reason why so many right wingers are terrified of antifa
With his tweet suggesting that Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old man who was violently shoved to the ground by Buffalo police during a protest last week, may have been an antifa super-ninja, Trump’s ooga-booga about anti-fascist activists descended into farce. And he isn’t alone. Locals on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state terrorized a multiracial family […] → Read More
Trump can’t bail himself out by stoking white people’s fear of rioting ‘thugs’ – A
1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American history. Cities across the country burned after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy was gunned down a few months later. There was a lot of crime, and widespread unrest in response to the seemingly endless war in Vietnam. A blo → Read More
Overwhelmed and losing, Trump is melting down in a narcissistic rage
Reports of Trump flying into a rage behind closed doors--shouting at aides, turning on former allies and at one point threatening to sue his campaign manager for failing to deliver good polling numbers--have been ubiquitous over the last three years. But this past week feels qualitatively and quanti → Read More
Tara Reade’s rape allegation against Joe Biden must be taken seriously. New details suggest it just isn’t credible – A
Tara Reade's claim that former Vice President Joe Biden raped her in 1993 is difficult for the left in large part because her original claim--that he rubbed her shoulders, made her uncomfortable and that his staff then retaliated against her for complaining about it--is credible. She told multiple p → Read More
Red states may be facing a perfect storm of serious illness and death from COVID-19
Rural, conservative-leaning states have so far been spared widespread outbreaks of COVID-19. But experts say that they're simply behind the curve of denser, more urban states like New York and Florida. The New York Times reported this week that "many communities that watched the pandemic unfold in f → Read More
Trump keeps claiming that he quickly banned travel from Asia and Europe due to COVID-19 but that is a brazen lie
Virtually every time Donald Trump talks about the COVID-19 pandemic, he brags that the outbreak would have been much worse in the US absent his "quick action" to "ban" travel from China. "Nobody wanted [a China travel ban] to happen,” he said in late March in response to criticism of his handling → Read More
Why COVID-trutherism is so popular on the right
Thirty days ago, Donald Trump said confidently that “we have 15 cases of COVID-19 that have been detected in the United States... because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … within a couple of days [the number of cases] is going to be down to close to zero." → Read More
Donald Trump is going to have a big Donald Trump problem in November
Donald Trump and his advisors believe that "his reelection hopes hinge almost entirely on his ability to manage" the coronavirus crisis, according to Politico. "While they acknowledge his initial response was lacking and that the virus poses a mortal threat to his 2020 prospects, they foresee a poss → Read More
You’re a frog in a pot and Donald Trump is turning up the heat
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. “Trump has […] → Read More
Democrats’ ‘worst nightmare’? Here’s the truth about the freakout over ‘Bernie or bust’ – A
On Wednesday, Chapo Trap House host and self-identified leftist dirtbag Will Menaker caused a stir when he vowed that he wouldn't vote for the Democratic nominee unless it is Bernie Sanders and suggested that his followers might do the same. I won’t vote for anyone but Bernie in the general, can’ → Read More