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Denny Carter

Denny Carter

These Democrats Are Running Roughshod Over Republicans With No-Faith Politics

These Democrats Are Running Roughshod Over Republicans With No-Faith Politics

You would think providing food for children would be a bipartisan issue, or even a nonpolitical one. You would, of course, be wrong about this. Making sure kids get food every day was the goal of Minnesota Democrats when they took it upon themselves to pass legislation providing free school

The Parental Rights Movement Is a Fascist Trojan Horse

The Parental Rights Movement Is a Fascist Trojan Horse

Out of the political muck of COVID emerged the bad faith of parental rights, a far-right dog whistle meant to attract the most furious, ignorant, power-mad parents in the US.

There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith

There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith

Unless your friends and family have been vacuum sealed and protected against the brain-altering venom of the Culture Wars, you know “woke” has, quite tragically, become a catchall term for anything a conservative doesn’t like. Anything that scares or annoys a reactionary is woke. Women fighter pilots flying jets

One Weird Trick To Turn Libertarians Into Socialists

One Weird Trick To Turn Libertarians Into Socialists

Fascist puppet master Peter Thiel last week helped trigger a run on Silicon Valley Bank that now threatens the foundation of the global economy, and every time I log on to Twitter for updates on the cascading effects of Thiel's highly suspicious actions, tech bros sound less like

The Bad Faith Machine Cannot Be Unplugged

The Bad Faith Machine Cannot Be Unplugged

The agitation, the sense of persecution, the standoffishness, the directionless anger: I always know when my dad has been binging conservative media. It’s not unlike dealing with a relative who struggles with alcohol or drugs. My dad, when he’s pumping far-right propaganda into his boomer, low-information brain 16

Canada Has A Defense Mechanism Against Bad-Faith Fascists

Canada Has A Defense Mechanism Against Bad-Faith Fascists

I was on my way to a ski lodge in Quebec, desperately trying to avoid a maze of potholes on a snowy, slick road, my kids excitedly chatting in the backseat, my wife giving me directions, when the radio grabbed my attention with a report so foreign I nearly drove

I’m Begging Marjorie Taylor Greene To Keep Operating In Good Faith

I’m Begging Marjorie Taylor Greene To Keep Operating In Good Faith

It can most generously be called a strain of laziness that runs through the conservative movement, or most accurately described as an everlasting authoritarian impulse: The deep yearning for struggle to end, to be done with politics, to stop with the messiness of representative democracy. Probably by now you had