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These Democrats Are Running Roughshod Over Republicans With No-Faith Politics
Some state-level Democratic leaders seem to understand that you can't shame the shameless
Denny Carter
Denny Carter is the owner of Bad Faith Times. He's worked in journalism since 2006 as a writer and editor, both in sports and politics.
Fascism and Bad Faith
The Parental Rights Movement Is a Fascist Trojan Horse
Out of the political muck of COVID emerged the bad faith of parental rights, a far-right dog whistle meant to attract the most furious, ignorant, power-mad parents in the US.
There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith
Unless your friends and family have been vacuum sealed and protected against the brain-altering venom of the Culture Wars, you know “woke” has, quite tragically, become a catchall term for anything a conservative doesn’t like. Anything that scares or annoys a reactionary is woke. Women fighter pilots flying
One Weird Trick To Turn Libertarians Into Socialists
Fascist puppet master Peter Thiel last week helped trigger a run on Silicon Valley Bank that now threatens the foundation of the global economy, and every time I log on to Twitter for updates on the cascading effects of Thiel's highly suspicious actions, tech bros sound less like
The Bad Faith Machine Cannot Be Unplugged
The agitation, the sense of persecution, the standoffishness, the directionless anger: I always know when my dad has been binging conservative media. It’s not unlike dealing with a relative who struggles with alcohol or drugs. My dad, when he’s pumping far-right propaganda into his boomer, low-information
Fascism and Bad Faith
Canada Has A Defense Mechanism Against Bad-Faith Fascists
Canada's criminal code does not include fascist speech as part of the accepted political landscape. Imagine that.
I’m Begging Marjorie Taylor Greene To Keep Operating In Good Faith
It can most generously be called a strain of laziness that runs through the conservative movement, or most accurately described as an everlasting authoritarian impulse: The deep yearning for struggle to end, to be done with politics, to stop with the messiness of representative democracy. Probably by now you had
The Bad-Faith Anti-War Movement Is Driving Me Insane
It was February 2003 and we were so steadfastly certain of our rightness in opposing the Iraq War as not only a strategic blunder on the part of the U.S. government, but as a profoundly immoral attack that would surely kill hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents. We
Class Dealignment Is Real, And It's Spectacularly Bad
It’s the most romantic political notion: A working class coalition putting aside their cultural and racial and religious differences to elect legislators who will ram through explicitly pro-worker policies and save us from the yawning darkness of creeping fascism in the United States. I get the appeal, truly.
Friday On Our Minds
My pledge to you, the good and decent Bad Faith Times subscriber, is to soon get back to writing about the never-ending loop of bad faith politics that makes our culture go around and around. I'm in Arizona this week covering the Super Bowl, as you may
The Politics Of A Wood Chipper
Last year I wrote a follow-up to my maturely titled 2017 e-book, 69 Ways to Own The Libs. Owning The Libs Across America was an update on how right-wing media ecosystem had changed during the Trump years, and how the pandemic had completely altered the brain chemistry
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I'm Not Afraid Of Cops
I was pulled over again and again as a teenager, and never once feared for my safety, and certainly not for my life