Donald Trump’s reelection strategy just isn’t working

By Robert A. Vella As I’ve detailed several times on this blog, Donald Trump‘s reelection strategy  – which the GOP Continue reading →

Trump deploys paramilitary secret police to trigger urban violence as a reelection strategy

By Robert A. Vella This is what all authoritarians do.  This is what fascists especially do.  This is what Donald Continue reading →

Bad News: Skyrocketing Unemployment and Escalating Pandemic Deaths foretell a gloomy April

By Robert A. Vella The weekly report of unemployment claims released today by the U.S. Department of Labor far surpassed Continue reading →

Market jitters undercut Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat to help his reelection chances

By Robert A. Vella President Trump has been publicly downplaying the worsening coronavirus threat, which is now technically a pandemic Continue reading →

Roger Stone is sentenced to prison, Trump’s bribe to Julian Assange, and today’s other news

By Robert A. Vella President Trump’s longtime political operative and self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone was sentenced today to serve Continue reading →

To be or not to be – that is the question facing the U.S. Department of Justice and all Americans

By Robert A. Vella “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will Continue reading →

Humpday Headlines: the SOTU and the SNAFU

By Robert A. Vella I didn’t watch last night’s State of the Union speech by Herr Trump and I’d expect Continue reading →

The shakedown is working: Key Republican will block witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial

By Robert A. Vella The pressure campaign waged by Donald Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell against Republican senators amenable Continue reading →