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Today the New York Times editorial staff published a sober essay detailing the ways authoritarians on both the left and right erode democracy. The authoritarian: 1. Stifles dissent and speech...
The argument is false that “temporary Covid-era Obamacare subsidies” are expiring and that Democrats are suddenly demanding their extension. Fact: The American Rescue Plan Act expanded ACA premium tax credits...
These murals are nothing but an eyesore and driving distraction. Just paint it a neutral color and be done with it. Or, make it a blank slate and invite some...
Ben - False. It is absolutely a "clean" Continuing Resolution that Senate Democrats have rejected 13 times now. There are no Republican add-ons, only continued funding to keep the government...
The irony in your dismissal of historians who study authoritarian regimes is that you’re reproducing one of the key warning signs the founders document: the use of “law and order”...
I’ve earned my free time and I’ve think I’ve made that clear. You talk about “Sanctuary Cities” as if they violate federal law, but the reality is the opposite: they...
Is your claim that Republicans are advancing towards an egalitarian democracy? How would politically you define Republicans? Definitely not conservative.
Geez, Ben (and your Mini-Me, Ted). Some people have work, travel and other stuff to fill the days. Few have the free time of a historian specializing in totalitarian regimes...
At this point calling a conservative that N word or F word is the same as calling a black person the other N word It's ignorant of history. It's not...

Ben – Just stop. You’ve embarrassed yourself enough already. Let’s do some history. Hmmm. What was going on in 2020-21 that made the American Rescue Plan Obamacare subsidies ‘necessary’? Oh,...