Stephan: I think it is very important that each of us who support democracy, racial and gender equality, and social policies that foster wellbeing at every level bear in mind that something fundamental has happened with one of the political parties in the United States. The Republican Party has become an organization of White supremacy and fascism. The polls make this very clear.
]Why has this happened? In my opinion, it is happening because Whites, and largely White men, are terrified that as America becomes a majority-minority nation Whites are losing the unspoken privilege that their race conferred. Equally alarming to these generally low education, low intellect Whites, the nation's implicit gender bias is also unraveling, and men will no longer enjoy a superior status over women.
What is clear is that even as Trump slithers out of the presidency the party he has enabled and allowed to blossom into the hate group it has become will remain. Contrary to all the happy lies we will tell ourselves, and teach our children in school, racism, authoritarianism, and male dominance have been baked into the culture of the United States since the nation came into existence in 1787. Don't you think it is time to change this, and who can do that, but we ourselves?
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is the only president in history to be impeached twice — this time for his role in encouraging a deadly assault on the Capitol by his supporters — but he is poised to leave office with a job approval rating that is fairly typical of his entire time in office.
A new NBC News poll found that 43 percent of voters nationwide gave Trump a positive job approval rating, just barely down from 45 percent who said the same before the November election and the 44 percent who approved of his performance shortly after he took office in 2017.
The same poll found that 35 percent of voters — including 74 percent of Republicans but just 30 percent of independents and 3 percent of Democrats — believe President-elect Joe Biden did not win the election legitimately.
Sixty-one percent of all voters — but just 21 percent of Republicans — say Biden did win legitimately.
I just read that the USPS is in serious trouble because of Trump’s efforts to ruin it. His last attempt to do damage to our country.