A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Finally: It’s Ending! When Donald Trump isn’t having a hissy fit over the Cheesecake Factory joke, pretty much the entire closing argument for MAGA World in Michigan has been: “Fear the Muslims”! The Islamophobic message is dominant in their rhetoric, repeated across the state by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Robert Kennedy Jr. and wannabe Senate candidate Mike Rogers. Trump devoted the opening 10 minutes of his weekend rant in Port Huron with anti-Muslim bigotry. RFK Jr., campaigning in Grand Rap

On Our Political Radar This Week… VIDEO – Full U.S. Senate Candidate Debate (WXYZ TV – Detroit) We are now less than a Scaramucci away from the last day of voting in the mid-term. While Democrats focus their final campaign messaging on the many failures and corruption of Trump Republicans, Trump and some of his desperate candidates are resorting to gutter politics of Islamophobia, threatening federal spending contingent on a GOP victory, calling the victim of childhood rape a liar and claiming

On Our Political Radar This Week… Brand spanking new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia didn’t even last the week before Trump kicked her to the curb. Just more incompetence and chaos from the Trump Administration, proving yet again that they can occasionally take a break from the astounding financial corruption and their unrelenting assault on the American and global economies and security in order to fuck up the simplest of unconsequential things, which then turn into a big deal. Our

On Our Political Radar This Week… (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool) This is our 300th episode, dating back to March of 2021. We thank you for making the last 5+ years possible! When we launched, the two state parties had just wrapped up their winter conventions one month after that January 6 Trump-led riot at the U.S. Capitol. State Democrats held what was pretty much a controversy-free event. The Republicans’ convention marked the begin of the MAGA takeover of the state party with election of co-c

On Our Political Radar This Week… “Stupid on Stilts”. That’s how Republican Senator Thom Tillis characterized Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to let a Putin Pal pay for his Gatsby-style wedding reception … but it could serve as the theme for the entire Trump 2nd term. Even ultra-conservative billionaire and Trump acolyte Peter Thiel is conceding that Trump has surrounded himself with a band of incompetent suck-ups instead of “the best and the brightest.” How else can you describe a group that inclu

On our radar this week… “Degenerates and Losers” – That’s Trump’s description of MS NOW after the network reported the administration is considering adding Trump’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The latest overnight online rant comes hours after a federal court overturned Trump’s ban on MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House … along with the release of polling showing Trump’s approval rating has dropped to less than one-third of Americans, wit