Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Black Shapes Gather in the Distance

Posted on Tuesday 20 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Items from the fringe, many related to my comments at the end of yesterday’s post. How Christian nationalists plan to use a second Trump administration to infuse their policies into all aspects of government; How conservatives claim to “disagree” with … Continue reading →

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More Behaving Badly

Posted on Sunday 18 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Robert Reich on Trump, ever the con artist; David French on the warping of American life by MAGA threats of violence; Trump doesn’t realize he’s the cause of US demise; The informant who inspired the Republican Biden investigation has been … Continue reading →

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A Big Picture vs. Daily Trivia

Posted on Thursday 15 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

An overview of 75 years of American history, by Robert Reich; Fringe items about Republican racism, who’s the traitor, the Taylor Swift conspiracy theory, assertions without evidence, the nanny state, moral certitude, and Fox News. I think many of us … Continue reading →

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Peculiar Trends

Posted on Tuesday 13 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Why are Gen Z views splitting by gender? Complex answer; Why are Republicans more likely to suffer hearing loss? Simple answer; Shorter items: Trump doesn’t understand NATO; about that Super Bowl commercial fueled by the Christian right; whether there’s a … Continue reading →

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From Looking Glass to Scary

Posted on Friday 9 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

My “looking glass” take two days ago was a cute way to avoid discussing the “tribalists” or the “cult” but perhaps things are actually getting too serious to dismiss those items as merely bizarre, upside-down-thinking about the world. If it … Continue reading →

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Another Visit Through the Looking Glass to MAGALand

Posted on Wednesday 7 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

The US is leading the world economically, but not according to MAGALand; MAGAfolks say they venerate the Constitution, yet support Trump as dictator; How prophets assert that Trump is president, and the GOP asserts that Trump did not commit insurrection; … Continue reading →

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Stalwarts? Traditionalists? Tribalists? Cultists? Some Evidence

Posted on Monday 5 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

First, I’d thought to post a summary review of the third short philosophy book I’ve read recently — Bertrand Russell’s THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY — but as the day turned out, I had time only to do another round-up of … Continue reading →

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The US Civil War, the Terrible Economy, and the Rule of Christians

Posted on Friday 2 February 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Chinese propaganda says the US is in a civil war; How conservative propaganda ignores or blocks the good news about the economy; How MAGA is right about Trump changing American politics; The current facts about the economy, from WaPo and … Continue reading →

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Another Orion Photo

Posted on Wednesday 31 January 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Plus: The wackadoodle conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl; Items about why Trump is blocking the border deal; how Trump would destroy the American-led world order; why Republicans are killing the border deal; and a handy guide … Continue reading →

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Dredging the Fringe

Posted on Friday 26 January 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

After two posts on intellectual topics, books, let’s check back in with the fringe, perhaps in a more condensed manner than I usually do. I’ve said several times that Republicans are interested only in solving imaginary problems (wokeness, CRT), not … Continue reading →

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