GOP racism

by NoahMegyn Kelly never should have left her comfort zone of FOX News. She was there for 10 years. Being blonde and bigoted, she fit in perfectly and she had no problem saying whatever racist thought popped into her mind. For Megyn Kelly, working at Fox might as well have been like working at Lester Maddox’s Restaurant in early 1960s Georgia. She could say anything racist, anything at all.

by NoahSurprise, surprise? Nope. What did you expect? It's Mississippi. The election of white nationalists like Cindy Hyde-Smith is what southerners like about the south; the white ones anyway. It's why the region is the strongest stronghold of today's Republican Party. Cindy Hyde-Smith could have campaigned in full KKK hood and sheet and her state would have still elected to send her to Washington.

The new Morning Consult poll makes a couple of important points we should bear in mind:

Trump by Joel Peter WitkinIn 1790, the first president of the United States, wrote a letter to the congregants of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, which said, in part, that "the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support...

One of my friends is a total worry-wart. He spends his days before elections calling voters for progressive candidates and trying to persuade them to get out and vote. Today he e-mailed me: "I’ve been making calls for Andrew Gillum. Did 75 mins last night. Afraid he’ll lose. Especially with trump going to rally in Fort Myers next week (It’s not official yet, but there are reports from CNN).

Macau/Vegas Mob-affiliated right-wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson continues to fund McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund and Ryan's Congressional Leadership Fund to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. He is, by far, the biggest contributor to right-wing politics in America, around $60 million so far this year... with plenty more coming. Among House races, the biggest Adelson cash dump has been in Wisconsin, against Randy Bryce, where hundreds of hours of vicious smear attacks have seriously changed the complexion of the race.

by NoahWhen, in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, Comrade Trump recently launched the current hit Republican diatribe featured in tonight's meme, my mind immediately went to two things: 1) The usual mangling of the English language by a profoundly uneducated "president," and 2) The horrific case of The Central Park Five from 1989 and his role in the ugliness surrounding it.For those who don't remember, the Central P

Paul Ryan's PAC has unleashed a series of vicious personal smear attacks across the country. The Trump enablers his PAC is defending can't run-on issues because voters hate their anti-healthcare, anti-middle class, pro-millionaire stands. So they're running on personal hate ads. They want to run by claiming Democrats are socialists or that they have tattoos or that they were in punk rock bands as teenagers or were skateboarder. They seem to have special animus towards Democratic candidates who were veterans and served the country on the front lines.

Minnesota and Mississippi each has two Senate elections in November. In Mississippi, Senator Roger Wicker is up for reelection. In June he easily put away a Trumpist primary challenger Richard Boyanton 83-17%. The primary drew 157,170 voters, compared to just 87,931 in the Democratic primary, which resulted in a runoff between Howard Sherman (31.79%) and David Baria (30.98%)-- 713 votes separating them.

Over the weekend the NY Times' in house conservative, Ross Douthat, used his column to opine on Conservatism After Christianity.