The Decline and Fall of MAGA

The decline and fall of MAGA

Before President Trump’s second term began, I warned that MAGA would never have it so good again. Without anticipating every bit of chaos Trump was going to unleash on America and the rest of the world, I believed, in early January, that the relative goodwill Trump had accrued would seep away. He would have to govern the country, and inflation and other economic woes he blamed on Joe Biden would become his problem. He’d own the economy, the immig

Analysis: Trump’s FBI bosses are angering the MAGA media bubble they once stoked

Some self-identified loyalists of President Trump are turning against Trump’s top law enforcement officials, partly because of the unsupported MAGA media claims that made those officials popular in the first place.

Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses

As Trump’s hints that he will override the courts get worse, a close observer of MAGA lawlessness explains why the Trump-MAGA game plan here is more dangerous than it appears.

SPARC Goes MAGA to Lobby

Remember a few months ago when SPARC pro-actively edited “equity” language out of its home page and key “Who We Are” language, completing the job before the inauguration of Donald Trump, and breaking a core rule about standing up to tyrants: “Do not obey in advance”? As a reminder, here is SPARC’s home page banner on December 20, 2024:Notice that the word “equitable” is featured, third from the last.Here is the same banner on January 22, 2025 — …