David Frum

How the Corporate Media Launched a Disinformation Campaign to Protect Fauci

By Leighton Woodhouse | December 1, 2021 By now you’ve surely heard about Anthony Fauci and his laboratory beagles, but in case you haven’t, it goes like this: For forty years, Fauci, as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has funded gruesome experiments on animals. Beagles in particular are one of […]

A Man Is Only As Good As His Word? So How Do Closet Cases, Like Lindsey Graham Survive In Electoral Politics?

 I'm gay. When I realized it, I was living in Amsterdam. I went to a psychologist and told him. He looked at me oddly and said, basically, "So? You need me to give you the addresses of gay bars?" Then I flew to the U.S., for my first visit back home in 4 years, to tell my mother. Her response was to tell me I couldn't borrow her wigs. Years later my first corporate job was working for a gay man.

Beware The #NeverTrump Conservatives-- They Are, First And Foremost, Conservatives

David Frum's new book, Trumpocalypse-- Restoring American Democracy, came out a few weeks ago. Who knew? I guess people who watch Morning Joe... plus #NeverTrump Republicans. Speaking of whom... The Bulwark's Brian Stewart reviewed it yesterday. Frum, of course, is eager to go back to the pre-Trump political normal, of two sick corporate parties-- which is how we wound up with Trump. Yes, getting rid of "the impostor president" is just the beginning... of not very much.

Kansas Anymore?

You know what would be amazing? That Trump winds up being so toxic that he even manages to lose the Kansas Senate seat for the Republicans! I know, I know... it's impossible. Actually it is-- literally-- impossible since even if the Schumer candidate, Barbara Bollier, wins, it's still a Republican in the seat. (A few months ago, she switched parties, although certainly not her ideology, but...

What Does One Do When The System Pukes Up Two Unfit Candidates To Lead The Country?

The newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll we were talking about earlier today, shows that Biden is outpolling Señor Trumpanzee by 7 points among registered voters. Many people can't stand either Trump or Biden but the vast, vast majority of them say they will just hold their noses and vote for Biden-- obviously-- to some-- the lesser evil.