TPM has a long tradition of covering the far right. From the Tea Party and its rise to prominence during Obama’s first term to fringier movements such as the Malheur wildlife refuge occupation and Jade Helm — we’ve chronicled 20 years of radicalism.
Perhaps in Trumplandia (and TPM???) the preferred spelling is “marshal law,” the correct spelling is “martial law.”
“meet with the President to advocate for marshal law”
Please guys, not you too.
Good catch!
Okay, okay, you told us so! You wanna medal? /s
hahahahaha thanks - that was my first reaction to reading this post too.
Spelling is not this site’s strong point.
I think you mean marital law.
I guess he wants people to know he got things right. Cenk at TYT does exactly the same thing. It seems ti may be an indie news org thing.
It’s certainly an after the fact patting on the back since we’re talking about 4 years ago - now that it’s all over. hahahahahaha
It’s perfectly natural, too. They have a news org and they are celebrating a 20 year milestone. Obviously one is going to point at what they got right when their business model is analyzing and doing their best to predict things.
Marshall Plan vs Martial Law
I do this all the time. But then, I don’t have a copy editor.
All in good fun. They deserve a victory lap. Just maybe … too soon? 
Then you & TPM have something in common.
j/k!!! 
The Hive is the equivalent of Microsoft users who debug for free. Who needs to pay for copy editors?
When Trump first announced in 2015, reports came out that he paid people to show up at his first rally. I thought he was a joke at that point. Then he made the incredibly bigoted comments about Undocumented Immigrants and his popularity shot up. And he followed it up by promoting the Torture of Prisoners. To me that should have disqualified him from holding office. It didn’t bother Conservatives one bit. That’s when I became alarmed.
In early 2016 I was talking about this and Conservative FB friends were telling me that “Trump is an asswipe”.
I was to be assured that he would never win the nomination and I should stop worrying about what he was saying.
Wrong on both counts, as usual.
I knew Trump was dangerous after the very first GOP contenders debate. Trump wiped the floor with them. Not on substance, but on style. They literally had no idea how to contend with his debate “style”, and wound up looking weak and silly. I remember being horrified to the point of saying he was dangerous. Sadly four years on, I was correct.
I’ve been reading it since the first year! They don’t need copy editors, they need more reporters and to pay the ones they have!
Marital Law? Melania gets a Mulligan?