Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Indeed. Rock bottom is when there’s nobody else to blame. Is this really rock bottom? I sure hope so. The silliness of the “it was actually ANTIFA” conspiracy theory just shows that there really is nobody else to blame.
I hope you’re right. But I suspect we will be dealing with armed jihadists and their sympathizers in law enforcement and those operating in society with a veneer of respectability that we don’t even know about for at least a generation. Constant vigilance will be needed to prevail over this insidious cancer from within that is ravaging our guts.
Somehow I still don’t feel that we are out of this mess. I sure hope so. And I very much doubt we will escape more of this conservative scourge. It will be here forever it appears. There is no end to their lies. I mean they have found a thing talking about our debt and so called conservative values, whatever the hell that is.There are always those who somehow feel wronged and just loves them some make believe conservative goodness, perhaps now served by Hawley or Cruz. They do tell the nice tale.
The problem is a good chunk of the nation is still mesmerized by him while the rest of us scratch our heads, not understanding the appeal. I agree that some real good came out of the Trump years. It ripped the mask off the Republican party for those who care to see. The crazies roaming the halls of the Capitol really scarred a bunch of people who might have been tortured, beaten to death or strung up if captured by the occupying army of morons. Perhaps there’s a sobering effect that goes with that. But Republicans still have to find… Read more »
CNN had a segment this morning about what it was like in the middle of the crowd outside the Capitol. In a word it was terrifying, they really are crazies. But it is also true that Trump is now the leader of another lost cause and that sort of thing is built on lies and feelings of loss. And boy they have lies and their own self justified feelings of loss and that has nothing to do with truth. The question for the rest of us is how to defeat this. I think we need to demand justice and we… Read more »
I have used a wine analogy for the longest of time – since he came down that elevator: In winemaking there is a step called fining – especially for white wines – where a fining agent, such as egg white is added in tiny amounts to coagulate all the undesirable precipitates. Trump is the fining agent for the conservative movement in this country! He will take it all down in one fell swoop! Unfortunately, I don’t see a clear desirable liquid remnant of the conservative movement. I look for balanced conservatives anywhere else in democracies – not a single one… Read more »
Indeed. Rock bottom is when there’s nobody else to blame. Is this really rock bottom? I sure hope so. The silliness of the “it was actually ANTIFA” conspiracy theory just shows that there really is nobody else to blame.
I find it interesting that the story keeps growing, almost as if it were all a big lie. Oh wait ,it is.
I hope you’re right. But I suspect we will be dealing with armed jihadists and their sympathizers in law enforcement and those operating in society with a veneer of respectability that we don’t even know about for at least a generation. Constant vigilance will be needed to prevail over this insidious cancer from within that is ravaging our guts.
We’re better off for it.
History will not be kind. And it started being written as it happened.
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The big lie seldom ends, like the southern lie after the war that continues to this day. It may grow and it goes on and on and on and ….l
Somehow I still don’t feel that we are out of this mess. I sure hope so. And I very much doubt we will escape more of this conservative scourge. It will be here forever it appears. There is no end to their lies. I mean they have found a thing talking about our debt and so called conservative values, whatever the hell that is.There are always those who somehow feel wronged and just loves them some make believe conservative goodness, perhaps now served by Hawley or Cruz. They do tell the nice tale.
The problem is a good chunk of the nation is still mesmerized by him while the rest of us scratch our heads, not understanding the appeal. I agree that some real good came out of the Trump years. It ripped the mask off the Republican party for those who care to see. The crazies roaming the halls of the Capitol really scarred a bunch of people who might have been tortured, beaten to death or strung up if captured by the occupying army of morons. Perhaps there’s a sobering effect that goes with that. But Republicans still have to find… Read more »
CNN had a segment this morning about what it was like in the middle of the crowd outside the Capitol. In a word it was terrifying, they really are crazies. But it is also true that Trump is now the leader of another lost cause and that sort of thing is built on lies and feelings of loss. And boy they have lies and their own self justified feelings of loss and that has nothing to do with truth. The question for the rest of us is how to defeat this. I think we need to demand justice and we… Read more »
I have used a wine analogy for the longest of time – since he came down that elevator: In winemaking there is a step called fining – especially for white wines – where a fining agent, such as egg white is added in tiny amounts to coagulate all the undesirable precipitates. Trump is the fining agent for the conservative movement in this country! He will take it all down in one fell swoop! Unfortunately, I don’t see a clear desirable liquid remnant of the conservative movement. I look for balanced conservatives anywhere else in democracies – not a single one… Read more »