Politics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:04:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Politics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Nemesis Awaits: Even Narcissus Would Blush at the Hubris of Trump https://brewminate.com/nemesis-awaits-even-narcissus-would-blush-at-the-hubris-of-trump/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:04:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267806 The ancient Greeks never rushed Nemesis. They understood that correction follows excess as reliably as shadow follows form.

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]]> Office for Personal Gain: LBJ, Trump, and the Limits of Moral Equivalence https://brewminate.com/office-for-personal-gain-lbj-trump-and-the-limits-of-moral-equivalence/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:03:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267815 History does not judge power by asking whether it was abused at all. It asks how often, how

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]]> Destruction from Within: Trump and the Suicide of the American Republic https://brewminate.com/destruction-from-within-trump-and-the-suicide-of-the-american-republic/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:01:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267550 When Abraham Lincoln warned that the republic could die by suicide, he was not speaking about foreign enemies,

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]]> Trump’s Coup Matures: The Destruction of the Legislative Process https://brewminate.com/trumps-coup-matures-the-destruction-of-the-legislative-process/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267503 By undermining core constitutional legislative processes, authoritarianism supplants democracy, thereby clearing a path to fascism. By Tim KippRetired

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]]> Holding Power Accountable: Civil Disobedience and Networked Whistleblowing https://brewminate.com/holding-power-accountable-civil-disobedience-and-networked-whistleblowing/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:19:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267441 Whistleblowers’ stories show how accountability is shifting from formal legal institutions to solidarity networks built outside the state.

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]]> Back to McCarthyism: Trump DOJ Moves to Treat Ideological Dissent as Criminal https://brewminate.com/back-to-mccarthyism-trump-doj-moves-to-treat-ideological-dissent-as-criminal/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:18:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267363 A former official from Trump’s first term said the FBI will be able to throw the full might

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]]> Trump’s Dystopian Propaganda and the Authoritarian Rewriting of American Reality https://brewminate.com/trumps-dystopian-propaganda-and-the-authoritarian-rewriting-of-american-reality/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:25:16 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267112 When citizens come to accept a constant state of crisis as normal, democratic erosion no longer feels like

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]]> Dystopian Pottersville Is Starting to Feel Less Like Fiction https://brewminate.com/dystopian-pottersville-is-starting-to-feel-less-like-fiction/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:24:16 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267086 Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet

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]]> Artificial Intelligence May Not Be a Bastion of Political Neutrality https://brewminate.com/artificial-intelligence-may-not-be-a-bastion-of-political-neutrality/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267104 Whether artificial intelligence can remain politically neutral is now a matter of active debate among researchers and policy

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]]> How Chatting with A.I. Bots Shifts Political Beliefs https://brewminate.com/how-chatting-with-a-i-bots-shifts-political-beliefs/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:19:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267081 Chatbots have a greater sway on policy issues than video ads, and that spouting the most information, even

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