Author: Damian Hendricks

If you think that today’s Republican Party is starting to look like a spooky religious cult, you aren’t alone. As the Republican Party moves away from traditional conservatism to a reactionary brand of politics inspired by Ayn Rand and Tea Party extremists waving misspelled signs decrying Democrats’ “socialism,” the time has come to ask whether modern “backlash” conservatism has become a spooky death cult rather than a pedestrian political ideology. Mike Papantonio talks about the new GOP Tea Party cult with Chauncey DeVega, a contributor to Alternet....

A few years ago, a right wing extremist took his shotgun into a church and shot two people dead. He committed these murders because the victims were liberals – people who in his mind were destroying America. The gunman told investigators that he believed people like Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly when they tell their listeners that liberals want to destroy America. This story highlights just how dangerous the conservative media has become. Mike Papantonio talks about the influence that the media has over the public with Maria Armoudian, author of the new book “Kill The Messenger:...

Republicans are whining like babies because they think that they are the victims of class warfare. They’re upset because president Obama wants to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires – less than 2% of the American population. But in the eyes of Republicans, this is class warfare. But what they seem to forget is that they’ve already committed class genocide against the middle class of America. Mike Papantonio talks about the real class war massacre with Karl Frisch, a founding partner of the strategic communications firm Bullfight Strategies....

The GOP Presidential wannabes are getting stranger and stranger by the minute. Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about how the entire Republican Party has devolved into a creepy fringe group that scares even Pat Robertson....

The American middle class took a massive hit during the Great Recession, when millions of working Americans lost their jobs, their homes, and their livelihoods. And more than 3 years after the economic meltdown occurred, things aren’t looking much better for this group. As Republicans continue to block unions, cut government spending, and reward companies for shipping jobs overseas, the American workers in the middle class are getting worked over yet again....