• Month: September 2025

    If you think radicalization is a one-sided issue, you’re part of the problem

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    If you think radicalization is a one-sided issue, you’re part of the problem

    I didn’t know a lot about Charlie Kirk before last week. I knew he was a young (to me) MAGA-verse star and that we likely disagreed on a whole lot of things. So what? I disagree with so many folks on both ends of the political spectrum that the only person I usually do agree with is the man in the mirror — and even he and I agree only about 63 percent of the time.  Because Charlie Kirk never came to my front door to debate — unlike some folks who immediately regretted that decision — he didn’t occupy […]

    Don’t let all the Trump enablers off the hook in the future; they are complicit

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    Don’t let all the Trump enablers off the hook in the future; they are complicit

    I know plenty of Trump supporters. I live in a deep red county and a mostly red neighborhood. I have family members, co-workers, neighbors, old friends, new friends and others who are Trumpers. They may get pretty darn sick of me not being one and not picking one of the two parties — the Democrats or what used to be Republicans — but I don’t hold their views against them. They have a right to their wrong opinions. They believe his diatribes. When he says inflation is down, they believe it. When he says gas is less than $2, they […]