Why is the media not blaring the alarms?!

It’s front-page news in the New York Times right now. The Washington Post too.

The fact that the salute is so offensive, they did it so blatantly, and their denial was so disingenuous is the point. It’s a demonstration of power. They can do a Nazi salute and their opponents can’t punish them. They can deny that they did a Nazi salute and their opponents can’t control the narrative. If they did something more subtle, then people might think that they weren’t facing any consequences because their opponents were giving them the benefit of the doubt. With the Nazi salute there is no doubt. The only explanation for why they aren’t facing any consequences is that their opponents are powerless.

There’s no benefit to cutting contact as a matter of principle. It won’t impede Trump even a little and it probably won’t change your dad’s political views either. Is he willing to avoid talking to you about politics? Do you enjoy his company when he isn’t talking about politics? If the answers to these questions are “yes” then I see no good reason to hurt him and yourself by cutting contact.

I think that every two people in my family have serious disagreements about some issue, but the world wouldn’t become a better place if we all argued and then stopped talking to each other.

I didn’t think I would ever say this, but here it is: I wish that modern Republicans thought more about what Reagan would have done.

(Eisenhower would be an even better Republican to remember now. He would be ashamed to see his party and this country as they are today.)

They probably agreed to cooperate with Trump’s immigration crackdown. Wait no, that’s our crooked mayor.