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I would like to think the red wave that would have ushered post-democratic authoritarianism failed to swamp the United States because enough people saw through the right wing's bad faith, or, at the very least, finally internalized the irreversible harm the right could do to the republic if

Bad Faith Times readers mostly came of age in a materially awful era of American politics. The 9/11 attacks and the 2008 recession broadly drove the policy and discussion of politics as I was finding my own way. Before these historic events, and before I was able to vote,

John Fetterman, unlike any Democratic congressional candidate in my lifetime, had for months batted away any and all opportunities to engage in the crazy TV doctor's bad-faith campaign. Fetterman, Pennsylvania's former lieutenant governor running for the U.S. Senate, had deployed a strategy not of good

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn't a real fascist, but he sure plays one on TV. He's too soft, too educated, too fake in his hatred of marginalized groups to be a true-blue fascist. DeSantis is smart; he has to feign his ignorance, unlike Donald Trump, who,

That I haven't penned a Bad Faith Times post in a while doesn't mean ideas of BFT columns aren't constantly swirling in my head. They are. It's just that this is football season and I get paid to analyze football. So this

It's not often you get a heaping, stinking load of political bad faith delivered to your doorstep. But that's what I found last week: Campaign pamphlets for a range of Maryland's right-wing candidates running in the 2022 midterms, including Dan Cox, the Republican gubernatorial