Matt Bernardini

Earth, Philadelphia

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist @intel_online

Articles

You Can't Fight Fascism With a Gerontocracy

1 week ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

A narcissistic President with a fading mind, surrounded by yes men, and clinging to power, is all over the American news this week. You’d be forgiven for thinking I was talking about Donald Trump. But no, I’m talking about Joe Biden. Whose cognitive issues are front and center again after a new book detailing his mental struggles, and the devastatingly sad news that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Now I don’t mean to equate the two.
EXCLUSIVE: How Trump's 2020 Reelection Campaign Planned and Implemented the Hunter Biden Laptop Op

2 weeks ago | washingtonbabylondc.com | Matt Bernardini

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, struggles with a microphone at the start of the November 7, 2020 press conference he hosted four days after the presidential election at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia. Giuliani called the press conference to explain why he was certain the Trump campaign’s legal challenge to the results in Pennsylvania would reverse Biden’s apparent victory in the state.
Hypernormalization: How Trump Gets Away With Scandal and Corruption

2 weeks ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

Perhaps one of the best-timed documentaries in history was Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalisation, which debuted in October 2016, just one month before Donald Trump would be elected President. Curtis argues that the complex problems the world faces are no longer addressed, and the entire Capitalistic system is held together by financiers and technocrats who seek to manage everything just enough so that the system doesn’t collapse. But lately I’ve been thinking about the idea of hypernormalization.
The Lessons Democrats Haven't Learned About Trump

3 weeks ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

For political junkies on the left, 2025 is a time to see which Democratic candidates learned the correct lessons from 2024, and which ones think that being more racist, transphobic and anti-immigrant is actually the way to go. Yes, the next presidential election may be a long way off — if it happens — but already several candidates are positioning themselves, and unfortunately many of them seem to have learned the wrong lessons from 2024.
Who's Afraid of the Word 'Oligarch'?

1 month ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

It’s not an election year, but you wouldn’t know it from the massive crowds across America. With Bernie Sanders speaking again to thousands of enthusiastic fans, you might think it was 2016 or 2020 again. But no instead this is 2025 and Sanders is on his Fighting Oligarchy Tour, barnstorming the country and highlighting the extreme wealth inequality that we face in America and how to deal with it.
EXCLUSIVE: How Trump's 2020 Reelection Campaign Planned and Implemented the Hunter Biden Laptop Op

1 month ago | washingtonbabylondc.com | Matt Bernardini

On October 14, 2020, less than three weeks before the presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the New York Post published a front-page story on the squalid contents found on a laptop computer that had been discarded 18 months earlier by Hunter Biden, the black sheep son of the Democratic nominee.
The Abolish ICE Movement Grows

1 month ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

Thanks to Donald Trump’s cruel immigration policies, one of the most well-known people in America currently sits in El Salvador. Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has lived in the US for nearly 15 years, was illegally deported to the Central American country despite not having been charged with a crime. Even though the Trump administration admitted in court that his deportation was a mistake, they refuse to get him back.
Trump's Chaos is Hitting Ordinary Americans Where it Hurts - In Their 401(k)s

1 month ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

America took most of us on a roller coaster ride in the last week, as the entire stock market looked like a meme stock bouncing up and down. Trump’s tariff plan was implemented, caused a massive market drop, was then repealed (except for China), causing a market rebound, followed by another drop. And while much of this affects mainly the richest Americans, the economic uncertainty that has exploded under Trump is causing stress for many working Americans.
Trump's Tariffs: How to Lose Friends and Impoverish Americans

2 months ago | bylinesupplement.com | Matt Bernardini

Amidst all of the Trump campaign propaganda about how bad Joe Biden’s economy was and how the Donald would be the only person to ‘make it great again,’ one comment from Elon Musk that went almost unnoticed, might end up being the only true thing this administration ever says. A week before the election, Musk told voters to brace for temporary hardship if Trump’s policies were implemented. “We have to reduce spending to live within our means,” Musk said during a town hall on X.
The Real Art of the Deal: How Trump Handed the Winning Cards to Putin

2 months ago | bylinesupplement.com | Byline Supplement |Matt Bernardini

Over the last few weeks, many in Europe and especially Ukraine, have watched in horror as the United States has turned its back on many of the post World War II alliances that created such a close bond with the continent. With regard to Europe’s biggest geopolitical issue, the war in Ukraine, many of Washington’s top officials have aligned themselves with the Kremlin. This has created concern in Kyiv about how much longer Ukraine can fend off Russia without support from the US.