Brief Note on Trump and the Mob Evidence in Capitol Attack Most Likely Supports Sedition Charges, Prosecutor Says "I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements," said Michael Sherwin,…www.nytimes.com You know, sometimes a thing looks just like it is. Imagine an ordinary guy doing the things Trump did — -leading up to, during, and after the insurrection. No need to elaborate. We all saw it with our own eyes. What do you…

The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that slavery degraded the slaveholder as much as it degraded the slave. Of his kind-hearted mistress who had never before owned a slave, he wrote: “My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul…

The Truth Will. In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden suggested that “through Civil War, the great depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifices, and setbacks, our better angels have prevailed.” …

The Backstory “Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished…But today, you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. …

Here we go again. Dems, identity politics will not defeat Donald Trump Since former Vice President Joe Biden joined the race, some Democrats have complained that despite the most diverse…www.nydailynews.com Like 2016, here come the think pieces on the evils of identity politics aka talking about difference (race, gender, sexuality) and complaints about politicians crafting policies based on identity rather than adopting broad- based economic strategies.

Here come the media pieces purporting to figure out what’s going on with Biden and Black voters. Here’s one and here’s one. Almost all hand wring over why, given Biden’s history of missteps (Anita Hill, busing desegregation, the war on drugs, me too, etc.), …

On October 11, 2016, Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.” Trump sees himself as being in bondage — -shackled by the GOP and a victim of…

The late historian Howard Zinn spent a lifetime writing from the margins — -illuminating the omissions, the mythologies, the hypocrisies, the dark America that remains unmentionable. In 2005, after Chief Justice John G. …