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. The
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 or
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 of every Republican
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