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An examination and analysis of how conservatives use bad-faith political arguments to advance fascism into the mainstream. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Denny Carter on the source of Elon Musk's incessant dehumanization of those he considers unworthy: https://badfaithtimes.com/the-rich-man-is-projecting/
Denny Carter on the American right daring to dream of a less fair, less free United States, and how the left might draw inspiration: https://badfaithtimes.com/the-american-right-dared-to-imagine-now-its-our-turn/
Former U.S. Senate candidate Alex Rikleen says the Supreme Court intentionally legitimized the right-wing fantasy of ending birthright citizenship in America. https://badfaithtimes.com/the-birthright-citizenship-ruling-is-far-worse-than-you-think/
Denny Carter on the American fascist movement trying to co-opt the internationalist joy of the World Cup: https://badfaithtimes.com/fascists-arent-allowed-to-enjoy-the-world-cup/
Democrats should be careful with their use of the term "Epstein class," which means whatever voters want it to mean. https://badfaithtimes.com/careful-with-that-axe-eugene/
Denny Carter on the quiet effort underway to hold accountable the DOGE hackers who may have committed millions of felonies in 2025: https://badfaithtimes.com/the-doge-boys-are-going-to-pay/
Right-Wing Media Exposes The Bad Faith Of Right-Wing Populism https://badfaithtimes.com/bft-pod-right-wing-media-exposes-the-bad-faith-of-right-wing-populistm/
Recent polling data is clear: The fragile 2024 Trump coalition is no more. Incredibly, that includes men. https://badfaithtimes.com/how-republicans-lost-men/
BFT's Denny Carter on the importance of Supreme Court reform: https://badfaithtimes.com/alito-theres-no-way-to-prove-these-jim-crow-electoral-maps-are-racist/
The shadows on the cave wall in our phones danced and danced until we were convinced there is no future for us, that politics had ended, that the right had claimed a final victory. https://badfaithtimes.com/the-american-right-dared-to-imagine-now-its-our-turn/
Two parts Reconstruction, one part New Deal: Denny Carter's "After The Great Redo" imagines a future robust American democracy full of hope and human dignity. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYXTBZCL Bookshop […] [Original post on badfaithtimes.com]
Creating unreality in which humans with white skin are the only humans worthy of rights and dignity requires race science. That JD Vance is close with race science advocates today should be concerning. https://badfaithtimes.com/race-science-slavery-and-the-unreality-of-white-supremacy/
Denny Carter on Elon Musk's struggle to make AI racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXghF6XVSI
James Baldwin has a message for the doomers: https://badfaithtimes.com/i-cant-be-a-pessimist-because-i-am-alive/
The left has to work with what we have, and what we have is a populace that understands the world through entertainment. So entertain we must, Denny Carter writes. https://badfaithtimes.com/democracy-must-be-sold-to-people/
Denny Carter on the elected Democrats who seem to understand the contours and challenges of competitive authoritarianism: https://badfaithtimes.com/these-democrats-seem-to-understand-the-situation-2/
Democrats have been winning in Trump +10-15 districts for more than a year now. If that holds for the '26 midterms, here's what the Senate might look like: https://badfaithtimes.com/this-is-what-a-dominant-democratic-midterm-election-looks-like/
Denny Carter on Democrats' overwhelming disadvantage on major social media platforms: https://badfaithtimes.com/its-not-cool-to-be-a-democrat-elon-musk-likes-it-that-way/
Denny Carter on the dangers of techno-fascist accelerationist ideology and how it is shaping modern life: https://badfaithtimes.com/be-the-tree/
In "After The Great Redo," Denny Carter imagines an American Reconstruction that succeeds and reshapes the country's institutions, laws, and everyday life. Check it out today! https://www.amazon.com/After-Great-Redo-Messages-Glorious-ebook/dp/B0GX2TVDHS
Every time the world’s richest man so much as gets lectured by a government official serving the people the rich man poisons with his social media empire, the rich man retreats behind the wall of free speech. https://badfaithtimes.com/elon-musk-is-doing-the-bad-faith-dance-again/
Denny Carter on social media regulation as a centerpiece of beating back rising fascism in the US and abroad: https://badfaithtimes.com/theres-a-way-to-stop-the-algorithmic-spread-of-hate/
Denny Carter on the natural and often tragic endpoint of the professional contrarian: https://badfaithtimes.com/from-edgy-to-evil-the-contrarians-fate/
Denny Carter on the media's incessant sanewashing of the president and the presumption of good faith that allows fascism to thrive in the US: https://badfaithtimes.com/fascism-depends-on-the-presumption-of-good-faith/
In questioning the validity of mail-in ballots this week, Samuel Alito - a master of bad-faith legalism - sounded no different than an online conspiracy theorist. https://badfaithtimes.com/email/f0d11366-0f25-4588-bf4c-12f11622d4e4/?ref=bad-faith-times-newsletter
A federal judge took one look at RFK Jr's unreality-based vaccine policies and said no, absolutely not. It's just the latest example of the regime's version of reality dying in the courtroom, Denny Carter writes. https://badfaithtimes.com/judge-to-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-has-to-be-reality-based/
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We now live under a system of competitive authoritarianism. Until Democratic officials understand this, there can be no effective counterweight to the Trump regime, Denny Carter writes. https://badfaithtimes.com/these-democrats-seem-to-understand-the-situation-2/
James Baldwin has some valuable advice for today's online doomers: https://badfaithtimes.com/i-cant-be-a-pessimist-because-i-am-alive/
"Democrats who promise policy initiatives but don’t discuss Supreme Court reform are living in a land of make believe." Here's how a U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts would help to fix the captured institution known as SCOTUS […] [Original post on badfaithtimes.com]