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South Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo was defeated last month by a weak Democratic opponent, 119,761 (50.9%) to 115,663 (49.1%). He blames Trump, rather than his own unwillingness to break with Trump over the last two years.

As I mentioned a few days ago, there are a shitload of really terrible candidates jumping into the quest for the Democratic nomination for president (and vice president). Today starts a new series to introduce you to the worst of them.

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

The whole idea of a "court Jew" takes on new meaningby Dorothy ReikPresident, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica MountainsLet's start with Pittsburgh. I know a lot of Israelis. They think Trump loves Jews because he moved our embassy to Jeresulem. He is trying to start the final war! First all the Jews have to go to Israel so he's making it more attractive.

For the first time ever, Trump is doing something as so-called "president" that hurts his own business. The Trump family makes huge profits by leasing expensive apartments to wealthy pregnant women from China, Russia and other former Soviet states so that their children are born in the U.S. and become automatic citizens.

The drawing above, by Nancy Ohanian, is entitled Spineless-- The GOP. There's no doubt Paul Ryan was foremost in her mind when she came up with and executed the concept. Yesterday, on Face The Nation, John Dickerson asked Ryan outright if he thinks Trump's rallies sow division in the country. Ryan replied: "Sometimes, yeah...

I know they don't teach basic civics in school any longer, but I'm old enough to have learned that we are a country of immigrants and that America was great because it was a melting pot-- even better than Canada which was disparaged as a mosaic in comparison.

Tomorrow some of the handful of Republicans who see through Trump and understand the dangers of his authoritarian nature and understand the threat he is to everything America stands for, are running the ad above-- the very Republican-oriented ad above-- on Fox News "to remind our fellow Americans, Republicans and conservatives that we are a nation of immigrants, and stronger for it." Ronald Reagan, just a few short years ago, once the penultimate symbol of Republicanism, means little more to today's brainwashed GOP base than Abe Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower or Teddy Roosevelt (i.e., close to

In a 5-4 ruling, a very right-wing Supreme Court reversed a series of lower court decisions to OK Turmpanzee's Muslim travel ban, claiming the ban is "squarely within the scope of Presidential authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act." Justice Sotomayor: "A reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus...

Unable to shake her pathetic election defeat to Donald Trump, and having blamed everyone and everything under the sun for her failure to win the 2016 US election, Hillary has come full circle… starting from the top of her “What Happened” list, to return to blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the woes of the world, that would most certainly would not be happening if only she had been sitting in the Oval office.