America's Undoing

03/23/2026

My Latest in The Nation

A Dangerous and Consistent Misreading of Trump’s Appeal

Trump didn’t win by moderating. He won by attacking a system millions already believed was broken.

There is a dangerous and increasingly dominant misreading of Trump’s appeal inside Democratic politics. Matthew Yglesias, Harvard grad and New York City native, has made a career as the working-class soothsayer to the elite. He tells corporate Democrats what working-class Americans think. And, because it’s what they want to hear, they listen. His latest theory: The party is too woke, too ideologically rigid, and if candidates would just moderate on a handful of cultural issues, the working-class voters they’ve lost would come back. It sounds reasonable. It has charts. It cites academic survey experiments.

Both Yglesias and the editors of The New York Times treat Donald Trump’s victories as evidence that moderation works, pointing to positions he walked back on Medicare cuts, the Iraq War, opposition to gay and le***an soldiers serving openly. That reading fundamentally misunderstands what Trump did. He didn’t win by meeting us halfway on policy details. He won by going to war with the institutions we blamed for our decline. Both parties, the media, the donor class, the trade deals that gutted manufacturing, the consensus that had governed Washington for 30 years. None of that is moderation. That is a frontal assault on the status quo. What he quietly dropped were the positions that most obviously signaled he was working for the same donor class as everyone else.

Trump didn’t win by moderating. He won by attacking a system millions already believed was broken.

03/19/2026

Almost exactly one year ago I wrote one of my first pieces for this Substack. I called it The Right Builds Power and The Left Holds Rallies. I laid out what I saw coming. No coherent vision. No real plan. No financial infrastructure capable of backing candidates at the level they actually need. No super PACs. No capacity for the kind of independent expenditure campaigns that AIPAC runs, that the crypto lobby runs, that corporate PACs run in congressional districts all over this country. I said it was going to bear fruit in losses.

North Carolina. Illinois. Here we are.

Progressive, Nida Allam ran in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. She had Bernie Sanders. She had Justice Democrats. She had the Working Families Party. She had a ground game and a message and a story that connected with people in that district in a real way. Outside groups spent more than $4.4 million in that primary. The single biggest spender was Jobs and Democracy PAC, which dropped $1.6 million in ads for the incumbent Valerie Foushee in the final weeks of the race. Jobs and Democracy is the super PAC funded by Anthropic, the AI company. They backed Foushee because she co-chairs the House Democratic Commission on AI. They were buying a friendly regulator. An AIPAC-donor-tied group called Article One PAC threw in another $600,000 for Foushee. The biggest counter-AIPAC group in the country, American Priorities, spent more than $1 million for Allam. One million against two and a half. The two candidates combined raised and spent about $811,000 from actual people who believed in them. The outside groups outspent them by more than five to one. Allam lost by 1,200 votes. She said exactly what it was. “The AI lobby just bought its first seat in Congress.”

Now go to Illinois, where the numbers get worse... read the rest in the comments

02/21/2026

Yeah, it’s the Saturday protest. This is the third one in a row in Lenoir city and about 40 people showed up already. I would say that that’s about that. We’re approaching one percent of the entire population so to put that in perspective in New York, that would be about 40,000 people pretty good turnout.

02/12/2026

The Secret to Beating the Oligarchs: OWNERSHIP 🛠️🇺🇸 How do we actually fix a broken economy? Corbin Trent (founder of A Fight Worth Having) joins to explain why the American people need to stop being just consumers and start being owners. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdvJdHfsBY

02/12/2026

The REAL Threat to America Who is actually threatening the American way of life? Corbin Trent joins to debunk the myths surrounding immigration and shine a light on the true danger facing our democracy: the rise of the unaccountable oligarchs. It’s time to stop looking down and start looking up at who is really pulling the strings. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdvJdHfsBY

02/11/2026

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02/08/2026

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02/07/2026

Only 20 Dems have backed a bill to strip his war powers. The rest are standing with Netanyahu—or staying silent.

https://www.americasundoing.com/p/will-democratic-cowardice-hand-trump?utm_source=youtube

01/25/2026

Back on Fox. It’s time to shut it down. If the government is being used against the people it doesn’t deserve our money.

01/24/2026

What are some non-negotiable lines we should be drawing in the sand right now? Featuring Matthew Cooke