The last major Klan revival before Bannon, et al, came along to brighten up the skyline with burning crosses and nukes, or whatever awaits, erupted in 1915, just as (not even a little bit coincidentally) D W Griffiths’ infamous, toxic, soul-destroying, venomously racist, but technically brilliant movie ”Birth of a…

It’s a fucking coup d’etat, and the Republican Congressional leadership, starting with Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan—who are, realistically, the only people in a position to take this madness on frontally and forcefully and maybe stop it before it blows up in our faces—are too busy giggling in the background over how…

Heaven help us, we’re all thinking those things.

This is what fascists do. This is fascism in action.

A million dollars a day, utter mayhem in Manhattan, a business-destroying problem for many of the entrepreneurs in the area, and the right wingers are cooing about what a good mother she is (maybe she is, who knows, I don’t, although at a glance I would say no, probably not; the nanny is probably terrific, though) and…

True enough.

Bannon wants blood. The awful thing is, a subset of the American people are just as excited as he is about the prospect of a slaughter. I hope to heaven nobody is hurt. This is pointless, and dreadful, and Republican voters, heaven curse them all, will cheer.

How the fuck do you spend $2 million a month?

My kids are Jewish on their dad’s side, and are affirming their Jewishness right now because if you’re a decent human being, what else are you going to do? Hide behind the fact that your ma was a WASP?

That’s bold. Good for them. Every time I come right up to the edge of just giving up on America forever, because, under the circumstances, why wouldn’t you? somebody goes and does something good.

This is the book of which Roxane Gay wrote, “I give Picoult a lot of credit for trying, and for supporting her attempt with rigorous research, good intentions and an awareness of her fallibility. Picoult’s flawed novel will most likely be well received by her intended audience [white people]. I trust that the next…

By “take down” I don’t actually mean physical assassination, I mean destruction, total political annihilation, ruthless and absolute, humiliation, being driven out of the village forever, which is something Mitch McConnell knows a thing or two about, having destroyed more than one adversary in his day.

It’s “trolling the entire world again,” Hannah.

There is a claim that green card holders are being cuffed and their social media reviewed. They are being questioned about their attitudes toward Trump.

Russia has been run more or less continuously for the last century, more or less, by an unholy trinity consisting of the oligarchy, the mob, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Even Stalin adapted to the triumverate, at least the latter two (plus the Nomenklatura), early on.

This is pure Steve Bannon. She was chosen as a goad—a needle in the eye of “libtards” and thus a powerful aphrodisiac for nasty little Nazi boys like the Bannon Base.

Never an asshole. Invariably polite when I talk to someone who makes a living by picking up the phone to talk to people like me.

I am longing for George W. Bush’s way with words, Richard M. Nixon’s integrity, and above all—whenever Steve Bannon’s grotesque, coke-gnarled face drifts across the screen like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon on DMT—Karl Rove’s spirited and honorable performance as the most powerful political operative in the…

Indignation is a way of life with these people, but most of them crumble surprisingly quickly in the face of someone who is neither deferential nor apologetic. They’re such snowflakes that they’re actually trying to figure out how to get criticism banned.

Carl Bernstein seems to be suggesting that there’s real concern about Donald’s mental health in Republican circles.