Irish-American Heartland Not the Force of Yesteryear

This was not the moment for defensiveness or rhetoric. We must remember that diplomacy is not submission — it is strategy.

Trump’s threat is purely economic, employing the power of coercion and open blackmail, to keep a ‘servant’ perpetually under subjugation from attaining economic independence.

[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.

[T]he American president is building a personality cult that Ceaușescu borrowed from Stalin but raised to new heights.