In WWII, everyone supported FDR & Churchill'ssupport for Stalin after Hitler invaded the USSR. It would have been insane not to because they had a common enemy. In the end, the Soviets killed far more Nazis than the Americans and British did--and at a far greater cost.

Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Libertarians and the fascist temptation. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

The New York Times still can't bring itself to call Trump a liar. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

There is a long history of defiance to illegal or unjust government policies in the US. Resistance to Trump's brutality and criminality has a solid foundation in American history. commons.stmarytx.edu/thestmarysla...

Why Putin is the biggest supporter of Trump's Greenland policy. www.wsj.com/world/in-tru...

The other day I came across my entry on Grokipedia, which is some sort of AI-powered version of Wikipedia. It had a lot of mistakes and I couldn't figure out how to fix them, so I posted a revised version on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

It is my position that if a national leader persistently ignores the rule of law, he is a dictator even if he was elected legally. Hitler was elected legally.

The issue today is not whether central bank independence is a good idea--that question has been settled for a long time. The unambiguous answer is yes. The question today is about the rule of law and whether our president is an authoritarian dictator.

I take seriously the idea of voluntary taxation--the only kind right-wingers support. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

There is a close parallel to Trump's lust for Greenland in Ulysses Grant's efforts to annex the Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo). Although he put much effort into it, the plan failed due to Republican opposition. Will history repeat? open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

The Democratic Party should state, in no uncertain terms, that the next Democratic president, whoever he or she is, will immediately reverse any Trump conquest of Greenland on their first day in office.

It amazes me that neither Trump nor any of his staff have yet figured out that Teddy Roosevelt's policies directly support what he is doing in Venezuela. In fact, TR did virtually the same thing in the same country! Details and references here. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

Trump's tariffs are having the opposite effect he intended.

I haven't seen it mentioned, but the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine directly supports Trump's action in Venezuela. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

One of my regrets in life is that I didn't take wood shop in school. Instead I took metal shop and electric shop, neither of which turned out to be useful in my life. Auto shop would have also helped.

This article from 2016 seems relevant today. www.jstor.org/stable/24916...

Reupping my post on the crimes of capitalism in light of last night's events. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

On the imminent Trumpization of the Federal Reserve. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

The end of Federal Reserve independence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...

Good issues for Democrats. They should pound them relentlessly. But mostly I hear crickets.

Anyone still watching CBS News is either a Trumpster or a fool. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

CBS has handed the Trump administration a "kill switch" for any story it doesn't like. wapo.st/3YL4T3D

It's ironic that Nixon once proposed a universal basic income, but it was killed by congressional liberals who didn't think it was liberal enough. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

Most of my substantive thoughts now appear on substack. brucebartlett.substack.com

The rats are deserting the sinking ship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

White males are now a protected class by the Trump regime. The EEOC will sue you if you don't hire or promote one. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, announced that it would begin prosecuting claims of racial discrimination against white males. I look at the evolution of "reverse discrimination" and how Trump has exploited it. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/how-white-...

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches theconversation.com/billionaires...

The forgotten Republican roots of Obamacare. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/republican...

The Heritage Foundation is hemorhaging board members. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Apparently, an obscure English professor who died in 1961 was the true originator of MAGA's political philosophy. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Republicans of 100 years ago were similar to those now--totally against nonwhite immigration and obsessed about bathrooms. They virulently opposed having whites and Blacks use the same toilets, just as they block trans people and straight people today. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/the-republ...

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