The Republican Party has devolved into an unruly and dangerous coalition of political extremists, anti-government libertarians, right-wing billionaires, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists and Christian zealots with Donald Trump as their great and powerful leader. When this gang is finished, America will look like the early 1900s–those “good old days” when the federal government was tiny, workers had no […]
When Poverty Was Healthy and Americans Were Free
Aren’t They All Dead? When I talk about my experiences inside the John Birch Society, people often tell me, quite emphatically, that the Birch Society has absolutely no influence contemporary politics. Republicans, in particular, can be really hostile when I suggest that GOP Senators, Representatives, and Governors sound very John Birch. “No way,” they say, “Birchers are all […]
Poverty is Not My Concern
Dancing, Bridge, and Republicans In July 1934, my father was living in Virginia where he worked for the Wrigley Company. He returned to Chicago to visit his mother when friends fixed him up on a blind date with Laurene Koenig. She was lovely, quiet, and practical. He was suave, outgoing, and daring. In the case […]