Donald Trump’s daily shticks, nicknamed “The Five O’Clock Follies,” grew tiresome weeks ago. Granted, there’s a huge cult audience for his toxic stew of serial lies, quack advice, and needy self-love, but his ratings are also boosted by...
I get why everyone has been so focused on Trump’s latest insanity spasm; after all, it’s rare to hear a president advise people to inject bleach. And, granted, yesterday’s tweet cascade – ranting that “fake” journalists didn’t...
By Chris Satullo Here’s a sad fact of human existence: We are deeply irrational beings. Me, you, all of us. Some of us, though, are just a bit more aware of how irrational we can be; we throw up occasional defenses against the onslaught of unreason. Then there are...
Only a mentally damaged grifter like Donald Trump could possibly manage to alienate the senior citizen electorate, which has voted Republican in 9 of the last 12 presidential elections and backed him in ’16. I’ll cop to all the usual caveats about the...
It was already clear, two years ago, that Brian Kemp had a screw loose. In a TV ad during his successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the right-wing businessman displayed his handguns and rifles – standard procedure in the South, where it’s de rigueur...
