Trump in Kenosha: He comes closer to advocating right-wing terror

US President Donald Trump tours an area affected by civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin on September 1, 2020. - Trump visited Kenosha, the Wisconsin city at the center of a raging US debate over racism, despite pleas to stay away and claims he is dangerously fanning tensions as a reelection ploy. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“American carnage” in Kenosha: Trump comes closer to advocating right-wing terror

Heather Digby Parton

Trump has flirted with right-wing vigilantism for years. His re-election strategy seems to be a full-on embrace

09/02/2020 09:58 EDT

Donald Trump | About two hundred persons protesting police brutality spray graffiti and start fires at the Portland Police Union building, in Portland, Oregon, United States on August 28, 2020, the 93rd day of consecutive protests. Police declared a riot and arrested many people. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s signal to his followers is clear: Violence and chaos are my only hope

Heather Digby Parton

Armed men in pickup trucks are "Great Patriots!" according to our president. He's drooling for mob violence

08/31/2020 08:30 EDT

Donald Trump’s dark spectacle is just a rerun — and America’s sick of it

Heather Digby Parton

Trump keeps rolling out the same threatening vision of American chaos. Does he even understand he's in charge?

08/28/2020 08:30 EDT

Donald Trump Jr. pre-records his address to the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the Republican Party to move away from an in-person convention to a televised format, similar to the Democratic Party's convention a week earlier. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The 2020 RNC isn’t a political convention — it’s a celebration of the Trump cult

Heather Digby Parton

Fear-mongering and corruption are nothing new in Republican politics. But Donald Trump has gone far beyond that

08/26/2020 09:59 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump makes remarks as he meets with U.S. Tech Workers and signs an Executive Order on Hiring Americans, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Get ready for TrumpFest, America — there’s no Republican Party anymore

Heather Digby Parton

This year's Republican convention is just a personality-cult conclave: No platform, and Trump speaks every night

08/24/2020 08:00 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House August 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke on a range of topics including his announcement earlier in the day of a new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Whose alpha male is this? Donald Trump and America’s sad, failed model of masculinity

David Masciotra

As author Tom Digby explains, Trump's "cartoon masculinity" is a desperate attempt to cling to a fading ideal

08/22/2020 12:00 EDT

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Steve Bannon and Louis DeJoy: Different wings of Trump’s empire of corruption

Heather Digby Parton

With Bannon indicted and DeJoy hauled before Congress, Trump's corrupt regime may be coming unglued at last

08/21/2020 09:56 EDT

Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty)

Senate Intelligence report reveals a vast network of — yes! — Trump-Russia collusion

Heather Digby Parton

Bipartisan committee finds a massive conspiracy of dunces and dupes. Does anyone really think Trump didn't know?

08/19/2020 10:15 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump | Judge Robert Rosenberg of the Broward County Canvassing Board uses a magnifying glass to examine a dimpled chad on a punch card ballot November 24, 2000 during a vote recount in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Getty Images/Salon)

Donald Trump didn’t invent vote suppression — he’s just taking it to the next level

Heather Digby Parton

Undermining voting rights and squelching democracy isn't just a Trump thing. It's been a GOP thing for decades

08/17/2020 08:40 EDT

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows (Getty/Alex Wong)

Mark Meadows is Donald Trump’s worst chief of staff — which is really saying something

Heather Digby Parton

Former Freedom Caucus head is in over his head, obeying his worst instincts and wrecking the place — like his boss

08/12/2020 09:11 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump stops to talk to reporters as he departs the White House (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Here we go again: Trump’s BS executive orders sucker the media on coronavirus relief

Amanda Marcotte

Trump and the GOP want to do nothing while claiming to help — the press must not let them get away with it

08/10/2020 13:00 EDT

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Art of the tantrum: Trump’s bewildering, doomed attempt to play savior

Heather Digby Parton

Trump's executive orders are confusing and unconstitutional — and likely to hurt his own voters. He doesn't care

08/10/2020 08:14 EDT

Former President Donald Trump (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Will Trump face real consequences for his crimes? The answer will haunt America’s future

Heather Digby Parton

What will we tell future generations — and future Republican presidents — if Trump gets away with everything?

08/07/2020 09:09 EDT

Donald Trump | Mail in Ballots (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s claims about mail voting were always incoherent: Now they’re falling apart

Heather Digby Parton

Donald Trump can't keep his story straight: Now mail-in voting is totally fine in Florida. Anyone remember 2000?

08/05/2020 08:00 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump | Federal officers form a police line in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the early hours of July 30, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Anna Moneymaker/Nathan Howard/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump wanted a Portland-style war in Chicago — in a second term, he’ll do it

Heather Digby Parton

Trump's team convinced him there'd be "extreme backlash" — but in a second term, he wouldn't care about that

08/03/2020 09:19 EDT

The year of dark magical thinking: Trump’s petty revenge fantasies have killed thousands

Heather Digby Parton

Trump believed the virus would only hit blue states, which would work out great. So he let tens of thousands die

07/31/2020 09:41 EDT

U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr on Capitol Hill: Lies, evasions and a promise to “follow the law.” Be very afraid

Heather Digby Parton

Barr defends the shock troops, lies about mail-in voting and won't quite say whether he'll leave if Trump loses

07/29/2020 09:28 EDT

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the Pensacola International Airport on November 3, 2018 in Pensacola, Florida. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

Rise and fall of a mini-Trump: With Florida a global epicenter, Ron DeSantis can shut up now

Heather Digby Parton

Florida elected a loyal Trump acolyte, and his handling of the pandemic couldn't possibly have been worse

07/27/2020 08:36 EDT

This 2012 photo shows then Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Democratic vice presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wave after accepting the nomination during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Will Joe Biden repeat Obama’s mistakes? Because repairing our damaged democracy is critical

Heather Digby Parton

Joe Biden sees himself as a healer — as a campaign strategy, it's working. Governing is quite a different matter

07/24/2020 10:03 EDT

Federal officers operate amid tear gas while clearing the street in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 21, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. The federal police response to the ongoing protests against racial inequality has been criticized by city and state elected officials as President Trump threatens to use Federal law enforcement in other major cities as well. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Defund Homeland Security: Creating a massive federal police apparatus was always a mistake

Heather Digby Parton

We built and funded a federal secret-police agency, and now it's being used against us. Why are we surprised?

07/22/2020 08:58 EDT

Donald Trump and Deborah Birx (Getty Images/Salon)

Donald Trump’s virus-whisperer: The tragic downfall of Dr. Deborah Birx

Heather Digby Parton

Dr. Deborah Birx seemed like a reasonable voice close to the throne. Now she's destroyed herself — and for what?

07/20/2020 09:57 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with citizens positively impacted by law enforcement, in the East Room of the White House on July 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Yes, Trump’s in deep trouble — but there may be a disturbing method to his madness

Heather Digby Parton

Is Trump profoundly incompetent or a major threat to democracy? Those two things don't have to be different

07/17/2020 09:58 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump spoke on several topics including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the stock market and relations with China as the coronavirus continues to spread in the U.S., with nearly 3.4 million confirmed cases. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump’s unhinged Rose Garden campaign rally: His sideshow act is getting truly pathetic

Heather Digby Parton

He can't hold rallies, so he forced the press corps to sit through one. Then he said Joe Biden will ban windows

07/15/2020 08:52 EDT

Donald Trump and Roger Stone (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence is blatant corruption: He’ll get away with it

Heather Digby Parton

Robert Mueller saw this coming, and the criminality is obvious. Will anyone do anything? You know the answer

07/13/2020 09:33 EDT