With each passing day, the two fundamental facts about our current political period become steadily clearer. The first is that the only presidential precedent for Donald Trump’s second term is that of the Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis. The second is that the most crucial deterrent to the one-sided civil war that Trump is waging […]
Civil War
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On Political Violence
Today on TAP: Over the same issues that Lincoln cited at Gettysburg
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Bad Slavery Was
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution.
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Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist
Today on TAP: The ‘race-centered’ Smithsonian exhibits are bad, but there’s nothing race-centered in restoring Confederate statuary.
Posted inPolitics
The Only ‘American President’ Trump Resembles Is Jefferson Davis
Like the Confederacy’s leader, Trump’s agenda is civil war.
Posted inPolitics
MAGA’s Way or the Highway
How the cold civil war shares characteristics with the hot one
Posted inLaw and Justice
J. Roberts et al. v. A. Lincoln
As the Supreme Court invents a law to negate all others, Chief Justice John Roberts now ranks just below Roger Taney.
Posted inWorking in America
The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War
We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the South.