- How is it the Republican party is increasingly dominated by cranks and crackpots? Ideas from Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson, and examples from the debates, and about Hurricane Helene.
- NYT is finally paying attention to Trump’s mental decline;
- JD Vance and Lance Wallnau again, and the Pentacostals who believe in angels and demons.
Either the crazies have always been with us, and they just haven’t been as apparent as they now are through social media, or something has happened in the past few decades to turn the Republican party and its followers into… well…
Robert Reich, 7 Oct 2024: How did the GOP become the party of cranks and crackpots?
(The cartoon, widely circulated over the years, is credited to Randy Molton, 2015).