Tag: Birtherism
Pundits and political scientists have already expended countless joules of intellectual energy to explain Trump's election, with economic insecurity among the more popular answers. But several researchers who have pored over the data have concluded ...
It is possible—and necessary—to loudly condemn the racism essential to Trump’s rise, the racism his voters articulated and countenanced, while simultaneously building a broad political movement that targets if not those very voters, then ones ...
Trump's ascent would not have been possible without the years of vitriol that the right-wing media directed at his predecessor. After years of listening to anti-Obama vitriol from right-wing talk radio and television hosts, conservatives ...
Trump responded to the polls this morning in the most Trumpian way possible: by re-whining the story of how the system is rigged against the racist, misogynist white male trust fund kid-turned-adult billionaire who, despite ...
We had all better get used to hearing from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, who comically attempts to explain away Trump’s years-long “birther” crusade against Barack Obama’s legitimacy by lying about ...
Fake news is the one thing Trump hasn’t claimed to have invented that he actually deserves at least partial credit for inventing. Trump puts out so much misinformation he is a fake news factory unto ...
J.D. Vance thinks that hillbilly clannishness and self-pitying pessimism are personally and politically crippling. “We can’t trust the evening news. We can’t trust our politicians. Our universities, the gateway to a better life, are rigged ...
It seems we are in the throes of another of those periods when the "paranoid style in American politics," as the historian Richard Hofstadter put it in a groundbreaking essay, is ascendant. No nefarious act, ...
Trump seemingly can’t, or chooses not to, distinguish fact from fiction, and he has a long history of adopting conspiracy theories and Tweeting about them.
I have no idea how to “heal” woman hating and no desire to “come together” with the Klan. So what now? Well, now those of us who feel the same way must make it a ...
But what we are seeing in Trump is something else entirely — an utterly amoral willingness to feed and exploit a frightened paranoia unhinged from anything resembling reality. That’s why ultimately, the biggest object of ...
On the day that Donald Trump finally acknowledge that President Obama was born in the United States and that the GOP nominee can't win without declaring "victory" and attempting to terminally muddy the waters on ...
The Trump campaign released a lie-filled statement that sought to put to rest criticism of Donald Trump for building his political image on racist, conspiratorial claims that President Obama was not born in the United ...
"I'm going to have a big announcement on it today," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, a day after he refused in a newspaper interview to say whether he believed Obama was ...
Whether or not these voters "are not America," as Clinton claimed, is another story. Donald Trump's continued success seems to say otherwise.
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