Category Archives: conservatives

The MAHA Veil, Cruelty, and What Trump Supporters are Teaching their Children

Posted on Thursday 26 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

MAHA isn’t about health, it’s about making money off quack cures; Matthew Rozsa thinks Trump will lose in November because of one word: cruelty; John Pavlovitz spells out what Trump supporters are teaching their children, about diversity, compassion, women, and … Continue reading →

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Competence vs. Competition

Posted on Monday 23 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Olympics thoughts: zero-sum games; competence vs competition; Amanda Marcotte on the violence and propaganda from the DHS; Zack Beauchamp on how to stop a dictator: make the threat obvious; Tom Nichols on the Republican Party’s Nazi problem; Short items about … Continue reading →

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Another Take on the Left/Right Divide

Posted on Sunday 22 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Kalen Dion on the right/left divide: homogeneity/diversity, and all that implies; What do historians mean that tomorrow won’t be better than today? Because human nature; The modern economy and the limits of human cognition; Conservative values: the Biblical right to … Continue reading →

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Are There Superior Civilizations?

Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Reactions to a speech by Marco Rubio claiming the superiority of Western Civilization over all others, by Bret Stephens, Eliot A. Cohen, Jamelle Bouie; Noting again Jared Diamond, who explained decades ago why the fact that the Enlightenment et al … Continue reading →

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How Crises Disappear

Posted on Wednesday 11 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How Trump has quietly withdrawn National Guard troops from various cities; Adam-Troy Castro predicts that the ballroom, the Kennedy Center overhaul, and the arch, will never happen; John Pavlovitz on how Bad Bunny reminds MAGA that they’re losing; Amanda Marcotte … Continue reading →

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How the War on Woke Reflects the Basics of Human Nature

Posted on Sunday 8 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Just one piece today, a longish piece I’m going to go through fairly carefully, since it puts current issues about MAGA and conservative regression into a broad context, broader I’d say than the 400 years stated in the title. Salon, … Continue reading →

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The Core Motivation of Trump, and MAGA

Posted on Saturday 7 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

More about the Obama video: how Trump has Obama Derangement Syndrome; how what motivates Trump, and MAGA, is racism; So why does Trump think he’s going to heaven? Short takes on ignoring the second amendment, MAGA cultists tricking voters, taking … Continue reading →

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A New Low

Posted on Friday 6 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump posts a racist video about the Obamas; Reactions from John Pavlovitz, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman. – – – Trump has hit a new low. His fans don’t mind, which says a lot. About him, and about them. (Of course … Continue reading →

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Christian Hypocrisy: The Beatitudes, vs. the Reality in Minneapolis

Posted on Tuesday 3 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Bulk sales for the Melania movie; an example of natural selection among aggressive religions; another prophecy that will not come true; The Onion suggests conservatives might boycott all forms of entertainment, since they’re all liberally biased (because that’s how art … Continue reading →

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Current Events; Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

Posted on Monday 2 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Pete Hegseth delights in violence; How Scott Adams was mislead by innumeracy into conspiracy theories; How conservatives resent a politician telling them to act more like Jesus; Examples of lunacy from JMG; Nihilism and the meaning of life. – – … Continue reading →

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