Authoritarianism is still very much in vogue, in Washington and Seoul alike. In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this week, the instant consensus among the instant “experts” who rushed to explain why South Korea’s besieged president, Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law, was that the failed gambit amounted to, in effect, a desperate act of …
On Friday, after the rousing Democratic convention was over, Trump charged that Harris’s securing of the Democratic Party’s nomination posed a “threat to democracy.” “It was a coup. We had a coup,” Trump said of Harris’s nomination, “the first coup of the history of our country, and it was very successful.” This from a man who actually tried to orchestrate …
LOADING ERROR LOADING CONCORD, N.H. ― Despite facing both federal and Georgia state prosecutions related to his coup attempt, Donald Trump nevertheless beat Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, although by a narrower margin that recent polls had suggested. Trump also enjoys a massive lead in national polls, which will likely translate into big wins on Super Tuesday’s …
On January 6, 2021, armed MAGA supporters swarmed the US Capitol in a bid to stop the electoral count that would transfer the presidency to Joe Biden. The missing Secret Service texts were important historical documents, but they might also corroborate testimony by Trump and Pence aides about what their bosses did, and said, on J6. Curiously, however, the data …
