Denny Carter

I spend so much time dissecting the nonstop torrent of conservative bad-faith politics that I find myself crying and shaking and dry heaving when I come across conservative good faith, which is – without fail – viscerally frightening. And when that nightmarish good faith bubbles to the surface of mainstream Republican politics

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Given enough time, political expedience, and need fore more culture war fuel, everything – every single thing – on the right-wing fringe will be absorbed into the Republican mainstream. But not even I, with cynicism dripping from every pore, under no illusions about the extent of the right's ends-justify-the-means, scorched

In a ritualistic act or the purest self loathing, I track the news closely. I've done so for nearly twenty years. I doom scroll and click and read and doom scroll and click and read – over and over again until I become one with my despair. In the

Student debt cancelation is subject to a devilish two-pronged attack that might give it eternal life. Our $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is destined to be the Dracula of American politics.   On one side stand generally well-meaning (mostly white) liberals who probably won't understand the nature