Brynn Tannehill

@BrynnTannehill

The Alabama senator’s shenanigans are bad enough in the here and now. But what happens when a President Trump can stack the Pentagon with loyalists?

We do have reason to fear what comes next. But what’s happening right now is concerning enough.

Are we really going to shoot on sight people merely suspected of smuggling drugs? Their “proposals” are solely about appealing to the base’s worst instincts.

There’s no way the polls should be close. But they are. Way close. And remember—the pollsters have underestimated Trump twice before.

What’s happening in Israel right now is a cautionary tale for the United States.

G’bye, NATO. G’bye, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal. G’bye, democracy. He’s telling us plain as day. Why aren’t people listening?

The court once held that the Civil Rights Act trumped religious freedom. After these recent decisions, that’s over. The consequences could be enormous.

It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.

He means a world in which Putin is on top and abandoned U.S. allies potentially start arming themselves with nukes. Some “peace.”

Take 330 million people, 400 million guns, and a media that induces paranoia and glorifies gun violence, and, well, what do you expect?

The laws proposed around the country by Republicans would make life for transgender people functionally impossible. The danger is in being under-wrought, not overwrought.

There are more unregistered guns in this country than are possessed by the Pentagon, DHS, and police departments combined. And Republicans want more of them.

Red states are passing laws to advance their culture war. Blue states are passing laws to stop it. The Supreme Court is going to have to decide, and there is no compromise position.

In state after state after state, it’s the same—the same quack “experts,” the same false or outdated evidence, and the same hatred spewed at vulnerable youth. Step up, Democrats.

Donald Trump was and is a lazy, ignorant narcissist. The Florida governor is a smart, motivated, very right-wing Catholic who wants to remake America as he imagines God wants it to be.

The day is coming when some Americans won’t accept a Roberts court decision that allows red states to reach into blue states and take people’s freedoms away. What then?

Unless voters wake up—and Democrats wake them up—we’re on the verge of permanent, minoritarian, single-party rule.

The Republicans will evidently control the House—and 70 percent of them are election deniers. And that’s just for starters.

Twitter without content moderation—and with Donald Trump and others reinvited—means that lies and disinformation will overwhelm the truth and the fascists will take over.

If the GOP wins in 2022 and 2024, here’s how it’ll capture Congress, the courts, and the executive branch to make America into Hungary.