Denny Carter

Elon Musk's Bad Faith

Elon Musk's Brain Worms Are Our Brain Worms Now

Musk owns the discourse, the way humans perceive reality.

John Fetterman Finally Caved To Bad Faith

John Fetterman, unlike any Democratic congressional candidate in my lifetime, had for months batted away any and all opportunities to engage in the crazy TV doctor's bad-faith campaign. Fetterman, Pennsylvania's former lieutenant governor running for the U.S. Senate, had deployed a strategy not of

The Inevitable Endpoint Of The Right's Bad-Faith Voter Fraud Obsession

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn't a real fascist, but he sure plays one on TV. He's too soft, too educated, too fake in his hatred of marginalized groups to be a true-blue fascist. DeSantis is smart; he has to feign his ignorance, unlike Donald Trump,

Snuffing Out Bad Faith With The Force of Law

That I haven't penned a Bad Faith Times post in a while doesn't mean ideas of BFT columns aren't constantly swirling in my head. They are. It's just that this is football season and I get paid to analyze football. So this

Bad Faith Landed On My Doorstep

It's not often you get a heaping, stinking load of political bad faith delivered to your doorstep. But that's what I found last week: Campaign pamphlets for a range of Maryland's right-wing candidates running in the 2022 midterms, including Dan Cox, the Republican

Fascism and Bad Faith

Optimization, Nostalgia, Fascism, And The Root Of All Bad Faith

It's when nostalgia is combined with the absurd notion of optimizing one's life that we get the most potent kind of bad faith.

We Don't Have To Live With This Judicial Bad Faith

We all laughed when Donald Trump babbled incoherently about his big, beautiful judges. We smirked and said this is just how a showman talks about his accomplishments. These are legal experts. They do not belong to Trump. It turns out those big, beautiful judges understood perfectly well their assignment when

I'm Obsessed With Dark Brandon's Rejection of Good Faith

Joe Biden, who came of age in an era of relative bipartisan comity and spent three decades bragging about his conservative record in the U.S. Senate, walked right up to the truth-telling line last week. He recently called Trump-style Republicans – also known as all Republicans – "semi-

Stop Being The Enemy Of The Good

Sometimes those who don't need or deserve government help – the rich, the privileged – are going to get assistance if people who truly need the help – workers living paycheck to paycheck – are going to see a modicum of relief. That's the sobering, teeth-clenching reality of effective

The Infuriating Bad Faith Of 'Quiet Quitting'

Only in the United States could doing one's job be considered quitting. That's how it's been defined by a corporate and managerial class livid about the shred of leverage workers have gained in an unusually strong labor market. Proliferating this week to every corner

4 Weird Tricks To Blunt Bad-Faith Politics

I've griped enough about the potency of the American right's bad-faith political arguments and its poisoning of every major political issue we face today, making almost every problem intractable as good-faith centrists and liberals try (and fail) to make nice with nihilists who do

Good Faith Politics Is Going To Ruin A Lot Of Americans

Every game has rules, and every sport has a referee. But only the truly deranged would invent more rules with which to abide and install refs to enforce the rules that don't need to exist for any reason whatsoever. Forcing yourself to play by rules that your opponents