John Atcheson
John Atcheson is author of the novel, A Being Darkly Wise, and he has just completed a book on the 2016 elections titled, WTF, America? How the US Went Off the Rails and How to Get It Back On Track, available from Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @john_atcheson
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Views Monday, June 18, 2018 We Get It — Trump Is Awful Every morning the news is full of Trump’s latest antics, and the Republican Party’s complete surrender to his insanity, and the liberal and progressive outlets are the worst offenders. They just can’t seem to tell us enough, what an idiot the man is. Here’s the thing. Those of us who know that... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 16, 2018 If the Economy Is So Good, Why Are People So Unhappy? Trump is collecting credit, while shedding blame Donald Trump—like the narcissistic, compulsive, hyperbolic blowhard he is—keeps bragging about how good “his” economy is. The self-aggrandizing superlatives flow out of Twitter like some rancid national virus. Leaving aside the fact that presidents... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 11, 2018 Republicans Lost Their Way Long Before Trump (But So Did the Democrats) There's been a spate of articles about how Trump has "taken over" the Republican Party. For example, New York Times columnist Charles Blow opened a recent column saying, "In one way, Donald Trump’s presidency has been a raging success: He stole a political party.” And former House Speaker John... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Sides, Balance, and the Death of Truth Something I’m hearing a lot from thoughtful people these days is how we have to learn to communicate with the other side. They bemoan the degree to which the US has sunk into two camps, each entrenched in their own reality and separated by a chasm of ideological intolerance. “It is critical that we... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 17, 2018 You Would Think It Would Be Impossible to Lose Ground to Trump and the GOP—But You'd Be Wrong Imagine having the good fortune to run against a Party which is systematically screwing the people who voted for it; abandoning science; blatantly lying, dissembling, and deceiving on just about everything; appointing lobbyists, cronies and ideologues for the purpose of eviscerating agencies that... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 13, 2018 Ready, Fire, Aim: Idiocy in Action Trying to parse Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran agreement shows why “balanced news” may end up destroying the world. We’ll examine why in a moment, but first, let’s summarize Trump’s reasoning – or what passes for reasoning in his addled, emotionally adolescent, ADHD brain. He says it... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 05, 2018 Pundits and Pols Still Don't Get It: Trump Didn't Win in 2016, Democrats Lost A recent study by PRRI and the Atlantic that seeks to explain the Trump voter is drawing a lot of attention from the press, political analysts, and the Democratic Party. PRRI’s thesis is that the white working class American (WWCA) Trump voter was motivated by fear of losing their preferred... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 28, 2018 Beyond Trump: How the US Went Off the Rails Trump is not the source of our problems; he’s the result of them. Wait, you say, how can having a president with all the impulse control of an infant’s alimentary canal—a man with all the strategic sense of a six-year-old ADHD patient; a narcissistic, mendacious, sexist, bombastic, thug—not be the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 14, 2018 Trump Is Cornered - Now Comes the Dangerous Part With the FBI’s raid on Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, the net is being narrowed, and Trump is, in all likelihood, trapped. And like any creature that operates from the limbic system, now is when he becomes most dangerous. For example, there can be little doubt that he will fire Mueller... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 07, 2018 Trump is Still the Most Unpopular President Since Polls Have Been Kept; But It May Not Matter in 2018 or 2020 Trump recently bragged that his approval ratings were higher than “Cheatin Obama” at this point in his Presidency. As it turns out, only Rasmussen – a right wing polling organization that has consistently put Trump’s approval ratings above those of other polling organizations – had Trump... Read more |