Abby Zimet

If you haven’t been reading Abby Zimet’s cultural annotations at Common Dreams, you should. They would make me cry if they didn’t make me laugh. Sometimes they make me do both.

White Trash Losers ‘R Us

Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool. And at the People's House, pay-per-view bloodsport rife with jingoism, fireworks, flyovers, honor guards for Nazi thugs, grift vast and brazen, the crass smear of an iconic woman in the name of "a permission structure made visible" emboldening "the worst people in the world." The result: "The cringiest collapse of a nation in real time."

Abby Zimet

Jun 17, 2026