Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

The Clash Within

Posted on Sunday 15 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Another big picture piece today. Thumbnail history. In the early 1990s Francis Fukuyama published a book called The End of History and the Last Man which argued, in part, that liberal democracy was winning the international war of governments. Samuel … Continue reading →

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The Trump Administration Declines All Knowledge

Posted on Saturday 14 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Suitable for this administration, and the MAGA crowd. (And the flat-earth crowd.) The Atlantic, Alexandra Petri, 14 Feb 2026: Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night, subtitled “After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, … Continue reading →

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Renouncing Reality, Yet Again, to Make Money

Posted on Thursday 12 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The Trump administration denies climate change, in favor of big business; Trump is best on cashing in; Paul Krugman explains why deportation don’t create jobs and will lead to more deaths of native-born Americans; Brief items about conservatives and small … Continue reading →

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Wrecking Ball Politics. Wentithy.

Posted on Tuesday 10 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The most beautiful news of 2025, from Information is Beautiful, due mostly to science and technology; Items from JMG about MAGA and conservative outrage; Items about Trump administration’s wrecking ball politics: destroying climate regulations, the global international order, the government’s … Continue reading →

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These Are the Days, My Friend

Posted on Monday 9 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Alternate takes on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance; The Bulwark ranks Trump 2.0’s most racist moments; JD Vance was booed at the Olympics, but NBC edited the boos out; About that “He Gets Us” ad campaign; Pete Hegseth … Continue reading →

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Illegal voting, ulterior motives, resentment, racism

Posted on Thursday 5 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Why is MAGA obsessed with voter fraud and illegal immigrants voting? A NYT essay suggests as a rationalization for Trump losing in 2020, despite lack of evidence, or rationale; While Heather Cox Richardson sees it as a reaction to the … Continue reading →

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“I Love the Poorly Educated”

Posted on Friday 30 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Now the administration is arresting journalists for covering news it doesn’t like; A right-wing response, anxious for public executions; Every accusation is a confession; How the withdrawn Philip Glass symphony is in a way about Trump; How Trump is making … Continue reading →

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“Let the Country’s Weak and Vulnerable Suffer and Die.”

Posted on Thursday 29 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

David Wallace-Wells on the real reason MAGA hates vaccines; How ICE is about retribution against those who didn’t vote for Trump; How the title of a recent book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” applies to the … Continue reading →

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The Latest ICE Killing

Posted on Sunday 25 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Captured on cellphone video, a man on the ground shot in the back ten times, like an execution; his crime: helping a woman who’d been pushed down by ICE thugs; Takes by Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, John … Continue reading →

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Disintegration

Posted on Saturday 24 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Another killing by ICE in Minneapolis; Trump cedes leadership of the global economy to China; Now they want to make the polio vaccine optional; Trump’s EPA now places the value of a human life at zero dollars; Trump’s National Park … Continue reading →