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Trump keeps warning MAGA Republicans that Democrats are bent on turning America communist. Yet he trashes democratic norms at home while genuflecting before Xi Jinping abroad, treating the Chinese strongman with the kind of deference he rarely shows America’s democratic allies. iPINIONS argues that the hypocrisy is as revealing as the spectacle. Read my full… Read more.
Darline Graham’s spectacular national-security flub drew boos and ridicule. But in fairness to Graham, she admitted what Donald Trump never will. She knows what she doesn’t know. But iPINIONS argues that her humiliation also exposes a larger Trump pathology. The dumber and more sycophantic the people around him, the smarter and stronger he feels. Read… Read more.
Trump says he’ll declare the “Hormuz Strait” US territory. iPINIONS contends the absurdity is almost beside the point. The real danger is how MAGA loyalty and American fatalism have trained millions to accept his lies, cruelty, and autocratic whims as normal. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/hormuz-strait-us-territory-because Read more.
Andrew and Tristan Tate built an empire selling hypermasculinity to insecure young men. iPINIONS revels in these self-styled alpha males being jailed, facing British extradition, and banking on a bird-of-a-feather Trump to spring them. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/jailed-tate-brothers-bank-on-bird Read more.
MAGA warns Europe about immigration as if it threatens civilization. But immigration made America great. iPINIONS thinks MAGA’s real fear is that it also made America less White. And that’s the unforgivable sin. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/why-is-maga-warning-europe-about Read more.
Trump’s Cabinet meetings have become televised loyalty pageants, with members competing to praise him like courtiers before a tin-pot Caesar. They tell themselves the groveling is performative schtick to own the libs. But repetition is corrosive. iPINIONS contends that what begins as a story to survive humiliation hardens into truth. Lincoln assembled a Team of… Read more.
Oprah built an empire on diversity, equality, inclusion, and the gospel of living your best life. But the political afterlife of her two most famous protégés is making a mockery of all she preached. iPINIONS notes how Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz go from Oprah-made TV stars to MAGA cheerleaders for a movement hostile to… Read more.
Last week’s UK local elections humiliated the Conservative-Labour duopoly and showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is no longer just a protest vote. iPINIONS argues that Britain is relapsing into Brexit politics just as America relapsed into MAGA politics … voters choosing entertainment over governance, their own welfare be damned. Read my full take on Substack:… Read more.
The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.
CNN spent years feeding off MAGA trolls for ratings. iPINIONS contends that now, with the Trump-aligned Ellisons looming as new owners, the network may be forced to become the very propaganda machine it once scorned. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-fox-newsing-and-podcasting-of Read more.
