Historian Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American are seriously a BFD, as President Biden would sometimes say. Heather's Letters have been effectively blunting some of Trump's efforts to undermine democracy. I realize that for many people, it may not feel like that's the case. However, I am optimistic for the midterm election.
Some other bloggers on Substack are also effectively cancelling out the terrible influence of Trump on corporate media. Among the voices that matter to me are former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner and former US Attorney for Alabama Joyce White Vance.
Laurence Rees' book The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History is also important.
Project 2025 is and has been terrible. But Trump and his ilk have not been able to do many of the things that enabled Hitler to tear apart Germany. We will oust him in 2026. We WILL end his ability to control Congress.
"Speaker should have stayed out of session a little longer," according to a conservative strategist who said Mike Johnson just "opened up a huge can of worms."
Johnson surprised political observers when he suggested that Trump was an "informant" for the FBI, providing information against Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex abuser, and it led strategist Susan del Percio, who has a history of working with Republican candidates and in Rudy Giuliani's administration, to mock the congressman's claim.
"That is big news," she said, mocking the notion of Trump as an informant on Epstein. She also noted the power of the Epstein survivors now that they have all connected in the same room, and declared that Trump is not going to escape questions about the Epstein files.
"This is getting much much worse for Trump," del Percio said. "And it's not going away any time soon."
