The Bulwark has quickly risen to the top of my must read list. It is superb. I look forward to reading it daily.
Cathy Young’s roundup of right-wing MAGA malice towards Ukraine is astonishing and devastating. It utterly unmasks the pettiness and useful idiocy of the MAGA media, which disdains American ideals and venerates a Russian tyrant and his war criminal regime.
The ranting and ravings of Donald Trump Jr. are the junior varsity impression of those of his addled and insurrectionist father. They are as equally boring at this point.
The antisemitism is completely in the open and accepted at any MAGA gathering. There should be no denying or pretending around this fact. The presence of MAGA Jews among the antisemites does not inoculate the antisemites or wash their hatred.
It simply evidences the ability of power to corrupt every sensibility and measure of decency. Politics is a corrupting business. When extremism flourishes within the system it becomes the fertilizer, accelerant and fuel of more corruption in a cycle of decay and disintegration that either peters out or consumes everything.