Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) dug in his heels while repeating claims that Americans are living under a “dictatorship” with President Joe Biden. During an appearance on “State of the Union” Sunday, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed the governor to explain why he thinks his political disagreements with Biden make the Democratic president a despot. “I understand you […]
What makes “a dictator” an actual “dictator”? North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum jousted with CNN host Kaitlan Collins over that concept Sunday in discussing his repeated use of the word “dictatorship” to described President Joe Biden’s administration. Burgum, who is considered one of the most likely choices to become the running mate of presumptive GOP […]
Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo, the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had ruled the country since 1933. The work of photographer Alfredo Cunha features prominently in many – he authored a book compiling the most emblematic images of this […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, in the first case to focus on the former military dictatorship’s overlooked practice of committing sexual violence against transgender women. The trial at the court in La Plata, a southern suburb […]
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest over remarks by President Joe Biden at a campaign stop saying Prime Minister Viktor Orban was seeking dictatorship, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news briefing on Tuesday. Orban has openly supported former U.S. President Donald Trump‘s bid for the White House and his government […]
Former President Donald Trump posted a word cloud on his Truth Social account Tuesday showcasing words such as “revenge” and “dictatorship,” the result of a Daily Mail poll that asked likely voters what word they would use to describe what he wants from a second term. The poll, conducted by the firm J.L. Partners and […]
Trump appears to be leaning into dark prophesies about a potential second term. He posted a word cloud in which “dictatorship” and “revenge” were especially prominent. The graphic originally came from a DailyMail article about a likely Trump vs. Biden rematch. Fresh off of declaring that he’s “not a student of Hitler,” former President Donald […]
Betrayal, vengeance, invective, and apostasy: these are constants in the turmoil and carnival of American political history. Aaron Burr was accused of launching a strange and semi-farcical attempt to establish a separate country on four hundred thousand acres of farmland in what is now Louisiana. His leading accuser was Thomas Jefferson, whom he had recently […]
I do not imagine that there are more than a handful of Salon readers who are not familiar with the danger of electing Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States for a second time. It is not hyperbole for me or anyone else to write that the upcoming 2024 presidential election will be […]