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Sociologist. Professor. Very amateur photographer. Sometimes poet. Political junkie. Depressed Democrat.
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Dear MAGA open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

Wealth Inequality in the United States open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

Dear Republicans, It's time to take a stand against the tyranny you've always feared. #USPOLITICS open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

When you aggressively assert executive power to change the content of museums to make an ideological point about how great America is, you may just be fundamentally misunderstanding the whole ideological point of America. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... #USPOLITICS

@lincolnproject.us The Dems and their allies need to think outside the box. They are spinning their wheels when they should be easily getting traction against Trump 2.0. Here is a free idea for a creative political communication team: open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... #USPOLITICS

MAGA elevated Trump as their tribal totem. They can’t separate their own interests from his. Because they assume these interests are synonymous with the interests of the nation, they undermine pluralistic democracy and enable (even require) authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

Why Does MAGA Still Love Trump? open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... MAGA engages in identity politics, but thinks that its identity is synonymous with the one true American identity. #USPolitics

open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... The Republican Party has been slowly simmering in a MAGA stew. #USPOLITICS

substack.com/@robertbulma... Trump's "genius" is to have us turn on each other.

How many conservatives who gleefully criticized the hesitancy of liberals to deviate from "woke" orthodoxy are now scared to criticize Trump in public for fear of the wrath of MAGA? They "bravely" refused to use preferred pronouns. They should be at least as brave to refuse Trump's authoritarianism

On the Edge of Everything open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... Taking a break from politics to write some existential poetry.

How many humiliating absurdities will Trump make Republicans swallow before they choke to death? #USNEWS

Trump Has Gifted the Politically Moral High Ground to the Democrats Here is some free political messaging advice for the Democrats #USPolitics open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

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Will the Real American Conservatives Please Stand Up? open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... #USPOLITICS

Somehow I think I'd feel better if Trump supporters just admitted that they like fascism. #USPOLITICS

Early Onset Fascism open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... #USPOLITICS

In 2009-10, Tea-Party activists raised hell because they didn't like the bank bailouts or Obamacare. The relentless pestering of Congress helped flip the House to Republicans in 2010, halting Obama's agenda. It's time we begin such hell raising. A lot more is at stake this time.

open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... If you are looking for a primer to understand the history of and many of the key theoretical, political, and empirical issues at stake in the debate over school vouchers this is one place to start. Although 20 years old, the report still has relevance. #USPOLITICS

Trump 101 1. Fabricate outrageous lies about the threat posed by Democrats. 2. Use a fragmented media environment to scare voters about the fabricated threats. 3. Once in power, do what you accused your opponents of doing in the name of "saving" the country from the fictional threats. #USPOLITICS

I criticized Musk a few months ago. I haven't used the site since the election. I'm not sure what this is in reference to, but good riddance.

When you elect a sociopathic criminal billionaire with a history of corruption and fraud as President, is it any surprise that he and his billionaire cronies would try to rule the country as corrupt and fraudulent crime lords? #USPOLITICS

This is worse than I thought it would be open.substack.com/pub/robertbu... #USPOLITICS "It may prove to be the greatest of all ironies that the people who thought they loved this country the most were ultimately the ones who put it in its greatest peril."

It may prove to be the greatest of all ironies that the people who thought they loved this country the most were ultimately the ones who put it in its greatest peril.

If we had a Democrat opposition skilled in political communication the crash could be a teaching moment to reveal just how despicably disordered MAGA thinking is. Devotion to Trump requires one to replace logic, evidence, and common decency with faith in the lies of a racist sociopath. #USPOLITICS

Thank you #PeteButtigieg for standing up to and calling out #TrumpFelon . This air disaster is his fault and trump knows it. That's why he's blaming Biden and dems and #DEI. Funny how there were zero air collisions under your watch Pete. After all the #MAGAts call you a DEI hire.