PZ Myers watches as scientists are purged and ideologues take over science. When it comes to expressing their thoughts on space exploration, they can’t find the words.
Dave Dubya has a different view. Trump is the product of contemporary conservative values. Here’s the often neglected insight about Trump supporters – not, as I see it, ideological conservatives. “The other primary reason the cult unites behind Trump is because he hates, or is perceived to hate, the same people con-servatives hate.”
This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the White House. Donald Trump has established an Election Commission staffed with voter suppression enthusiasts. The first act has been to demand from states the same confidential files that Russian hackers worked to get into. Mississippi’s conservative Republican Secretary of State seems to have spoken for most of the states when he invited the group to “jump in the Gulf of Mexico” and urged other states to “protect the privacy of our citizens”. Donald Trump has suggested that, rather than protecting privacy, states have something to hide.