Too early to know. We have no clue how Trump will govern. He probably doesn't know himself. It's worth remembering that President George W. Bush's approval ratings hovered slightly above 20% at their low point. This was largely because mainstream Republicans were fed up with him. It could happen to Trump too,…

There is room for hope. The Democratic Party's "brain trust" is already showing signs that it refuses to learn any lessons from this year's debacle. Good. The whole Bernie Sanders wing of the party might wake up and realize it's time to head for the exits. 2016 could end up being fondly remembered as the year the…

No, don't cling to the false hope that real progressives will worm their way into Democratic hearts. Chris Hedges has long warned of the evils of false hope for the Left. Democrats are what they are. They're people like Barack Obama, who is an archetype of the fake reformer who loathes real reformers, and his…

The problem with your question is that actual progressives don't get invited into the halls of power. President Barack Obama wouldn't dream of hiring anyone who is an authentic example of the type of reform-minded moralist that he impersonated in the Senate and as a presidential candidate. Democratic politicians…

With experience in the halls of power? That's a tough one. Jeff Connaughton and Neil Barofsky are the only two I can think of off the top of my head. Matt Stoller knows lots of people from his congressional staffing days in D.C. I'm sure he could supply a good list.

This is patronizing bullshit: "progressives who like a side of logic with their liberalism." It's exactly what I would expect from someone who regards "Obama aides Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor" as spokesmen for the Left. Those miscreants are well-known nemeses of progressives. If they're…

Why? There are people who worship Pamelyn Ferdin as a goddess. Who are you to judge us?

He's turning into Corey Feldman.

Humidity is always 100% under the sea, but water ya gonna do?

Celebrities are about to become anti-war again. Anti-war rallies will reappear for the first time in eight years. It'll be one of many eye-rolling moments for those of us who have remained anti-war and pro-civil liberties all these years.

I don't understand why the medicine men can't summon some wendigos to devour the pipeline workers.

Hell yeah!

I'm a leftist who's grown increasingly disgusted with the liberal addiction to jokey dismissals. The two formulas I hate most:

By now you must at least suspect that watching liberals making snarky pop-culture comparisons only endears Trump to his supporters. We should really quit with this shit. It was always a dumb idea and it's even dumber in light of Trump's victory.

Vladimir Putin is a sure way to get a rise out of people these days. There's never been a better time for Putin-themed band names.

Were you there? It's one thing for your favorite niche entertainment to become popular, but the Tarantino crap in the mid-90's was like an infectious disease. You had to be there to experience how obnoxious it was. I've never seen anything like it before or since.

I must take issue with classifying 1,000 Drops of Venom under "Trying too Hard." It's an obvious reference to the song "One Thousand Days in Sodom" on Venom's album Welcome to Hell. It's a perfectly good name for a Venom tribute band, or for any revivalist NWOBHM project.

1994 was the beginning of a downward spiral in pop culture. Alternative rock had turned into a big pile of shit, ska-punk and mall-punk were beginning to rear their ugly heads, and the Tarantino guns-and-cigarettes aesthetic hung like a odor over everything. The 90's only got worse from that point on.

Succeeding generations don't understand and will never understand the psychic trauma of living through the Tarantino hysteria of the mid 90's. Like the author, I saw Reservoir Dogs when it was new on VHS and enjoyed it and thought it super cool. Then in '94 the whole retro guns-and-cigarettes aesthetic abruptly…

Trump Tower is kind of a high castle.