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New survey data show that many of Donald Trump’s 2024 working-class voters are already wavering. But most aren’t turning to Democrats — they’re dropping out of politics altogether.

Although the congressional elections in November 2026 may push MAGA back for a while, the longer-range prognosis for US democracy depends primarily on the grassroots mobilization of the widest possible spectrum of the American population.

Political scientists have long understood that loneliness is a precondition for authoritarianism, which depends on people being isolated and mistrusting one another.

The core of Trump’s being is his lack of empathy. He seems destined to forever be the privileged son of a rich man and one who grew up in 23-room house with a chauffeur and a cook and possessing a Cadillac.

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A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.

The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the price

Country Joe’s caustic black humor struck a loud chord with the 400,000-strong Woodstock audience. “Come on mothers throughout the land, pack your boys off to Vietnam,” he sang. “Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box.”

We want the embargo to end. We want the cruel, inhumane oil blockade by the Trump regime to end. We want the current administration’s posturing toward war games and invasion to end. We want engagement, not escalation. We want friendship.