The Trump Presidency Is Going Great

Georgia Republican Senate nominee and Trump endorsee Mike Collins has discovered a bold new way to appeal to the base: skip the dog whistle and just make white nationalism a family business. Collins, already known for denying the 2020 election, defending January 6 rioters, and dabbling in antisemitic "jokes," turns out to have a son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, who is a full-time white nationalist influencer with a side hustle in Nazi aesthetics. Scheer posts to 1.5 million followers about fitness, Christianity, and masculinity, which in this universe apparently means deporting Muslims, blaming "Israel and Zionist Jews" for undermining white Christian America, and musing about "clearing our land of other people" to restore a nice, homogenous ethnostate.

Far from being some distant black sheep, Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property, appears in Collins’s campaign photos, and celebrated at the victory party when Collins won the GOP primary. On social media, Scheer cycles through the greatest hits of 20th-century evil: Nazi imagery, Patriot Front propaganda, Hitler-curious polls like "why Gen-Z doesn’t hate Hitler," and infographics blaming Jews for everything from gun control and abortion to LGBTQ rights, pornography, and—sure, why not—the Federal Reserve. He’s even reposted 1930s Nazi propaganda art, slapped on a caption about a "common enemy," and pushed conspiracy theories that Jews control the US government, did 9/11, killed JFK, and assassinated Charlie Kirk, which is news to Charlie Kirk, who appears to still be extremely alive and extremely online.

Confronted with all this, Collins’s campaign bravely charged into the moment by… refusing to address a single specific thing and instead insisting that Collins’s "lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable." An interesting defense, considering his son-in-law is out here recycling Nazi talking points about "Jewish Bolsheviks" and fantasizing about an all-white America. But as long as you can point to a pro-Israel voting record, apparently you don’t have to answer for the guy at your victory party asking whether he should make content explaining why young people don’t hate Hitler. The Trump-era GOP: where the red line isn’t fascism, it’s whether you might lose a primary over it.

Janet Mills, two-term governor and supposed top-tier Democratic recruit, just dropped her Maine Senate bid not because of scandal, corruption, or a surprise polling collapse, but because she doesn’t have the one thing American democracy actually runs on: cash. She insists she’s got the experience, the passion, the fight – just not the bottomless money pit required to play in Donald Trump’s Washington, where ideas are optional but a war chest is mandatory.

Her likely replacement? Graham Platner, a first-time candidate who somehow remains popular despite controversy over past online comments and a tattoo that’s “widely recognized as a Nazi symbol”. So the big strategic debate inside the Democratic Party in 2026 boils down to: can we beat Susan Collins and help end unified GOP control of government by rallying behind the guy who’s going to spend the rest of the campaign explaining his Nazi ink. Bold theory of change.

Chuck Schumer and various left-leaning groups had lined up behind Mills as the serious, establishment-backed option to flip one of the most competitive Senate seats. Instead, the money hose didn’t turn on, the institutional favorite bailed, and the party is now flirting with nominating someone whose body art would have been instant career death in any allegedly functioning democracy. In Trump’s America, though, everyone just shrugs and moves on to the next fire.

This twisted tale of pro-terrorist grooming runs on absurdity and the nauseating reality of profit-driven platforms like Telegram, which don’t just allow hate but *encourage* it, elevating young Krajčík from bullied teenager to a mass-shooting poster child. This is not merely *incompetence*; it's the systematic *facilitation* of extremism under the guise of ‘free speech,’ while the world turns a blind eye and pats itself on the back for weak attempts at moderation. Congratulations, society; you’ve discovered the perfect recipe for a catastrophic failure—just toss in some apathetic tech giants, a sprinkle of unhinged influencers, and a pinch of fatal neglect, and voilà: you’ve cooked up a real-life horror story!

Germany’s likely next leader **just declared Europe’s 80-year alliance with the U.S. dead**, because apparently **cozying up to Putin and gutting NATO** was a bit of a red flag. Merz now wants to **build a European defense system**—because when Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and **threatened to pull U.S. troops**, it became clear that **America’s foreign policy is now a Musk-endorsed dumpster fire.**

Vice President JD Vance just cozied up to Germany’s far-right AfD party, complaining that mainstream German politicians are being too mean to neo-Nazis by refusing to work with them. At the Munich Security Conference, Vance met with AfD leader Alice Weidel and slammed Germany’s stance against coalitioning with extremists, calling it an “undemocratic firewall”—because apparently, protecting democracy from fascists is bad now. German leaders, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz, weren’t having it, publicly rebuking Vance and reminding him that banning Nazis from power is actually a good thing. Meanwhile, Trump’s White House remains silent, leaving Europe wondering if the U.S. is still against Nazis—or just against saying it out loud.