Author: Damian Hendricks

Papantonio: White Supremacist Own the New GOP

Log Cabin Republicans weren’t welcome at this year’s CPAC convention, but White Nationalists were not only welcomed with open arms, but they were given a prime speaking slot. Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about how racism has completely taken over the...

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Papantonio: Republicans Hope Culture Wars Will Energize Base

The contraception issue has taken center stage in the news this week, with Republicans accusing the president of imposing new rules that will violate religious beliefs. Nothing could be further from the truth, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from rallying their base to fight against contraceptives. As Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss, this may be the only way to energize the Republicans, since they can’t seem to agree on anything these...

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Papantonio: How The Right Wing Assault on Unions Backfired

When a cabal of right wing governors took power in 2010, they had a list of goals that they wanted to accomplish to make sure that they stayed in power as long as possible. On the very top of that list of goals was to demonize and then systematically destroy America’s unions and the entire organized labor movement. By doing that, they believed that they would effectively kill one of the largest Democratic fundraisers in the country. But as we’ve seen in places like Wisconsin and Ohio, the attacks on unions are backfiring, and have created a massive backlash....

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