One of the key features of Trumpism is that facts don’t matter–and this includes facts that members of the MAGA base experience every time they go to the grocery store or fill up their gas tank.

If Trump or one of his minions says it, it must be true, regardless of how blatantly false it is.

Is It True? Who Cares?

Here, Samuel L. Jackson provides a fresh insight into today’s Republican party.  It’s the polar opposite of the idea we all learned as children: live and let live.

People who aren’t straight white Christian males are the enemy.

Today’s Republicans: Another Perspective

From a reader:  Okay… confession: I only physically read about a quarter of it.

I’ll make an even greater confession: I read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” back-to-back when I was a teenager, and they meant a great deal to me at the time.

It was a couple of decades later that I realized that “the virtue of selfishness,” as Rand described her philosophy, is a horrible basis on which to build a society. Fortunately, there isn’t a nation on Earth where everything is privatized: roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, law enforcement, criminal justice, disaster relief, libraries, national defense, bank deposit insurance, emergency healthcare, food safety, etc.

Moreover, hoping that rich and selfish people will restrain themselves from ruining the environment is a joke.

Ayn Rand and the Virtue of Selfishness