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Radio host Thom Hartmann explains how we could ‘slide into straight fascism’ in the next year

AlterNet logoOn Wednesday night the Democrats held their fifth presidential primary debate. It was a largely uninteresting affair, presenting an opportunity for Democratic candidates to position themselves as being the most “electable” among their peers and best able to defeat Donald Trump.

A far more exciting backdrop was provided by the public impeachment hearings being held in the House of Representatives. After a week or so of public hearings it is increasingly obvious that Donald Trump and his minions engaged in a Mafia-style bribery, extortion, and shakedown operation against Ukraine, with the goal of forcing that nation’s leaders to aid Trump in the 2020 presidential election. This is a gross abuse of power and violation of the rule of law and the Constitution. It is one example among many of Donald Trump, his minions, the Republican Party, their disinformation news media and their army of cultists putting loyalty to Trump over the good of the United States.

Public opinion and other research suggests that the Democratic Party’s nominee should defeat Donald Trump in 2020. But which of the Democrats now running has the best chance? Will Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders or some other candidate be the champion of American democracy against the tyrant in waiting who now occupies the Oval Office?

View the complete November 22 article by Chauncey DeVega from Salon on the AlterNet website here.

Trump Is Serious About Carrying Minnesota, the One That Got Away in 2016

New York Times logoWASHINGTON — A Republican presidential candidate has not won the state of Minnesota since Richard M. Nixon’s victory there in 1972. But President Trump has long viewed it as the one that got away.

Mr. Trump barely set foot in the state during his 2016 campaign, and his field organization on the ground was nonexistent: The lone Trump campaign staff member working the state was moved to Colorado before Election Day. But Mr. Trump lost Minnesota to his former rival Hillary Clinton by 1.5 percentage points, or less than 45,000 votes.

“We almost won it,” Mr. Trump said during a visit this year to a trucking company in a Minneapolis suburb. The difference between a victory and a loss, he said, would have been coming to the state to give “one more speech.”

View the complete October 9 article by Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman on The New York Times website here.

Trump’s 2020 Strategy: Fighting Dirty

“Never wrestle with a pig,” says the old maxim. “You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” That’s the risk facing Democrats who hope to impeach and remove the president or defeat him at the polls. But sometimes, pig wrestling is a task that cannot be avoided.

Donald Trump is not typical of politicians or human beings. When accused of wrongdoing that they actually committed, most of them would either deny the behavior or admit and repent of it. Trump is unusual because his defense is not that he didn’t do it, or that it wasn’t bad, but that there are no standards of good and bad that mean anything.

The evidence is abundant that he tried to extort the president of Ukraine to come up with incriminating information about Joe Biden by withholding $391 million in security aid.

View the complete September 28 article by Steve Chapman on the National Memo website here.

Trump attacks new poll showing his approval rating tumbling

Washington Post-ABC survey shows a 6-point drop over a summer of self-inflicted wounds, trade war

On a day when voters in a reliably red North Carolina congressional district head to the polls in a closer-than-expected House race, President Donald Trump lashed out at a poll that showed his approval rating tumbling.

As he waited to see if voters in the Tar Heel State’s competitive 9th Congressional District will send a Democrat to Washington for the first time since 1963, he took umbrage at a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. That survey put his approval rating at 38 percent — down from 44 percent in June — along with a 56 percent disapproval rating.

The Post-ABC News survey showed Americans increasingly worried about the state of the economy and the president’s trade war with China. When asked about Trump’s handling of the economy, 46 percent said they approve; that’s down from 51 percent in July.

View the complete September 10 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.

Trump Campaign Torched Over Sharpiegate Merch: ‘Dishonesty Memorabilia’

The president’s 2020 campaign team has faced backlash for hawking Trump-branded marker pens online.

Donald Trump’s campaign team drew ire Friday after it started selling marker pens in a bid to fundraise off the “Sharpiegate” saga, which saw the president accused of altering a map to show Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama.

A set of five pens — each featuring Trump’s signature in gold — are now available to buy for $15 via the president’s official website. The campaign hawked the merchandise on Twitter:

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Let’s drive @CNN and the rest of the FAKE NEWS absolutely crazy!

Get your official ‘Trump Marker’ NOW.

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Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, also hyped the Trump-branded office supply:

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View the complete September 7 article by Lee Moran on the Huffington Post website here.

World’s ‘Saddest’ Rally? Donald Trump Jr. Mocked For Speaking To Mostly Empty Arena

Just a couple hundred people turned out for the event meant to help Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R).

Don’t expect to hear much bragging about this crowd.

Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, spoke on Thursday at a rally in Kentucky for Gov. Matt Bevin (R), who is running for reelection in a tight race against state Attorney General Andy Beshear (D).

Local CBS station WYMT reported before the event that “locals expect a memorable turnout.” And indeed it was, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons for Trump.

View the complete August 30 article by Ed Mazza on the Huffington Post website here.

The Memo: Polls flash warning signs for Trump

The Hill logoOpinion polls are flashing warning signs for President Trump — and in some unexpected ways.

Recent national polls — most notably one from Fox News that incurred the president’s ire — have shown Trump slipping even among groups that have long been perceived as pillars of his support.

In the Fox News poll released last week, Trump was tested against four possible Democratic opponents: former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

View the complete August 21 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.

Trump’s unpopularity puts his presidency at risk — and he would ‘go to war with the world’ to keep it

AlterNet logoDonald Trump’s electoral college victory in the 2016 presidential race changed the way we talk about politics in at least two fundamental ways. The first is demonstrated by recent events in which the president retweeted a conspiracy theory and then defended himself by claiming that the person spreading it was a “respected conservative pundit.”

In the past, most of us would have found people like that conspiracy theorist to be laughable. But now we are forced to take them seriously because the man who occupies the Oval Office does. In that video clip, Trump goes on to talk about how the attorney general is investigating the matter. As we’ve all seen, Bill Barr is no stranger to conspiracy theories, so things like this are no longer a laughing matter.

In the past, most of us would have found people like that conspiracy theorist to be laughable. But now we are forced to take them seriously because the man who occupies the Oval Office does. In that video clip, Trump goes on to talk about how the attorney general is investigating the matter. As we’ve all seen, Bill Barr is no stranger to conspiracy theories, so things like this are no longer a laughing matter.

View the complete August 14 article by Nancy LeTourneau from The Washington Monthly on the AlterNet website here.

The Memo: Suburbs spell trouble for Trump

The Hill logoPresident Trump has a problem with suburban voters — and it could have profound consequences for his chances of reelection next year.

An NBC News analysis Monday noted that Trump has been “underwater” with suburban voters in five out of six NBC News–Wall Street Journal polls conducted this year.

That finding comports with other surveys that show Trump performing poorly with some of the key voting blocs that populate the nation’s suburbs, notably white women and white college graduates.

View the complete August 13 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.

‘Never seen anything like it’: Daughter of infamous racist George Wallace warns that Trump is even worse

AlterNet logoWhen segregationist George Wallace ran against Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Hubert Humphrey on the American Independent Party ticket in the 1968 presidential race, he was so overtly bigoted that he made even Nixon’s more racist supporters uncomfortable. Nixon, in fact, feared that Wallace would split the right-wing vote and cause Humphrey to lose the election. Peggy Wallace Kennedy, his daughter, is now 69 — and she sees a lot of her late father in President Donald Trump.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Kennedy said last week when speaking to a group of teachers at the Birmingham Public Library in Alabama. “I saw Daddy a lot in 2016.”

Kennedy didn’t mean that she literally saw her father in 2016; Wallace died in 1998 at the age of 79. Rather, she meant that Trump’s 2016 campaign reminded her of the 1968 campaign of her father, whose infamously declared, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

View the complete July 31 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.