The GOP Built a Propaganda Empire. Democrats Built a Consultancy Firm. For at least a few decades, Republicans and Democrats have been following two very different strategies when it comes to political messaging. And the GOP is doing it effectively — making big, bold statements — while cautious Democrats are getting wiped out. Republicans are leading public opinion while Democrats are trying to chase it. That does not work. The essence of the problem is that the corporate wing of the Democratic Party tells their politicians and ad people that they need to pay careful attention to public polling and calibrate their positions around "where the public is at." And, of course, don't take positions (like Medicare for All) that would offend donors (insurance companies, in this case). The results are "safe," focus-grouped policies that fail to inspire or move voters. And, even more importantly, don't change public opinion itself.

The Democratic Party is facing a crisis that it’s experienced only once before in its history: the near-complete loss, for multiple generations, of control of the Senate—and thus the loss of any say in the makeup of the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court. Within the next two decades, half of the population of the United States will live in just eight states and be represented by only 16 (out of 100) senators.37 Right now, about two-thirds of the US population lives in just 15 states, represented by only 30 senators (and thus 30 percent of the Senate). There’s history here, and Democrats need to learn from it fast.

How the GOP's war on empathy turned America into a playground for billionaires and psychopaths... "In my work with the defendants [at Nuremberg], I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men." — Captain Gustave Gilbert, the US army psychologist assigned to observe the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials.

No matter how hard you try, the world won't forget. The lies, the corruption, and the betrayal are etched into history, a stain that will follow your party for generations… Dear Republicans, Here we go again. A large chunk of Trump's cabinet and our national security leaders just endangered our country and our pilots who were flying over Yemen with their arrogance and frank stupidity. Their lies about it were so egregious that Jeffrey Goldberg published the actual transcript in The Atlantic this morning. Only the best people, right?