Department of No!! Really??

• Cory Booker calls the alt-right by its name:

  "You say alt-right. Let's be clear, alt-right is a euphemism for white supremacy and what he was trying to do on that platform," Booker corrected.

  [Emphasis in original]
  (Karoli Kuns, Crooks and Liars)
  
• Mike Lux, also Crooks and Liars, on rebooting the Democratic Party; particular suggestion is:

  Democrats need to stop listening to the beltway pundits telling them they need to make false choices. We don’t have to decide between base voters and working class voters: in fact, most of our base are working class people who have been as hard hit by this economy’s heavy tilt to the top 1% as anyone, and populist economic messages work for both base and swing voters. We don’t have to choose between being populists and being pro-business: progressive populism is very much aligned with the small businesses, start-ups, green energy companies, and good neighbor companies that we ought to be helping. We don’t have to choose between rural and urban America, as progressive policies on energy, health care, Wall St, farming, anti-trust, education, the minimum wage, and health care are major assets in both big cities and small towns. Democrats need to stop playing either/or politics and stop having debates between ourselves that don’t make any sense.

  In short, knock off the dichotomizing.
• Hullabaloo, excerpting an article in Politico on Trump's surprise that the Presidency is not run like a business, with the photo of a petulant-looking president that lacks only a rattle or pacifier or something like that.  (Comrade Misfit suggested Photoshop.  Heh.)
• In reference to the massacre that didn't actually happen, Big Bad Bald Bastard posts a picture of one of the Lexington Avenue express trains.  With comment.
• Senator Al Franken, in conversation with Bill Maher (David Ferguson, Raw Story) on what the Republicans are thinking (the "video" does not play).
• The Rude Pundit:

  One last thing: There is another reason why Republicans and racist conservatives and Nazis want you to think that Democrats are the party of the KKK. They're saying none-too-subtly that non-white people are stupid because they support Democrats. See, Republicans can't be the racists, despite all the plainly racist policies they want because there is this one racist thing that they're not guilty of. It's a fuckin' low bar they've set for themselves and they barely crawl under it.

• The Rectification of Names.

  Conservative Trumposceptics are having a hard time processing it. On the one hand, because it's Trump, they've given themselves permission to see one aspect or another of how bad the decree was, its terrible drafting, its incompetent execution, even some of its hideous consequences; but on the other hand, the court decision is an example of dread JUDICIAL ACTIVISM, or a violation of the sacred constitutional principle that judicial review applies only to the actions of Democrats, and thus ipso facto bad in its own right