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Our politics isn't about left vs. right anymore — it's about reality vs. dreadful fantasy
Opinion

Our politics isn't about left vs. right anymore — it's about reality vs. dreadful fantasy

There's a visual image I'd like you to embed in your mind, to be wheeled out whenever you might feel even the slightest bit complacent about the incoming Biden administration. For many of us, it's impossible to forget.

Back in April, Columbus Dispatch photographer Joshua Bickel snapped an unforgettable image of Trump supporters — no distancing, eyes vacant and maskless mouths agape — protesting the COVID protocols in Ohio during the first major spike in cases. Bickel stood inside the lobby of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus while the protesters shrieked and chanted outside, pounding on the locked doors. It looked almost exactly like that scene in "Shaun of the Dead" in which Simon Pegg and the rest of the cast is trapped inside the Winchester Pub with a large gaggle of zombies pressed against the front door.

Donald Trump expects Amy Coney Barrett to deal with the foremost embodiment of his Obama obsession
Opinion

Donald Trump expects Amy Coney Barrett to deal with the foremost embodiment of his Obama obsession

Donald Trump and his henchmen keep promising to protect health insurance coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions. They're lying to you, probably because it's what they do best and also because the president has no idea how to spell "ACA," much less describe what's in the law.

The truth is that Trump's entire agenda circulates around re-election and erasing the Obama legacy because he's all about revenge — petty, self-serving Mafia-cosplay — and he doesn't really care if his own supporters aren't able to buy affordable health insurance due to his nincompoopery. This is why the president and his sidekick, Attorney General Bill Barr, are refusing to defend the ACA in court after a ludicrous ruling by a Trump-supporting Texas judge who also doesn't understand how the law works.