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Comparisons of Donald Trump to autocrats and dictators, past and present (to say nothing of his friendships and professed love affairs with some) have steadily been made over the last nine years.  With “America’s Hitler” written by J.D. Vance to a friend in 2016...

“This is not who we are as a nation.” Really, and as Big Bird asked his pal “Snuffy, where have you been?”  This is not only precisely who we are but who and what we always have been, as most high school graduates know.  The salient difference this time is not a...

While signing into law the blatantly and comically unconstitutional requirement that the Top Ten Judeo-Christian DOs and DON’Ts be displayed in every Louisiana public school classroom, Governor Jeff Landry said, “If you want to respect the rule of law. . . you’ve got...

How many score times have you read and heard reports that Rafah, where Israel is poised for a major offensive against Hamas, is a place where civilians from other parts of Gaza took refuge and were told to do that by Israel. And how many times, save right here, has it...

Like the observation in HL 179 (1/17/2024) that “no American roughly my age [just] north of 75 has not had a close relationship with the atomic bomb their entire life” we ancients have another longstanding relationship that we are thinking about – the student activism...

Regular readers of Hopelessly Liberal know that the enterprise is defining and promoting classic American liberalism, as the best way toward forming that more perfect union. The reason I occasionally eulogize certain especially great liberals is to show how their...