The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/donald-trump/page/3)
I am often amazed by the way this country’s people have weathered the years since the 2016 election launched us further into the shadowlands of hatred, racism, misogyny, bigotry, and terror. I am equally amazed by how those years have weathered but not beaten us.
Over the past week, Democrats have giddily celebrated the ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket. That’s great, but it doesn’t deal with the issue of elderly leaders in this nation of ours. Maybe the tale of Egil Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet who lived to old age, has something to teach us here.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews this season’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
“By adopting the tried and true American marketing language of freedom and free speech, they rally ready troops who giddily cheer them on, even when (or especially when) they’re shutting down accounts of those who criticize them.”
The main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems unnervingly like an odal rune, a symbol used by the Nazis and other far-right groups in place of the swastika.