Inevitable that at some point, base would turn on GOP leadership, who failed both to deliver and to explain why delivery impossible.
But what to do now? GOP supporters’ capacity to trust anyone else already destroyed.
Thus, almost inevitable that they will rely on signals of authenticity, rather than on e.g. policy positions.
A CEO crashing his car is an accident. A CEO crashing his car and dying a day after being indicted for criminal charges is not.
In the outgoing dogmatic GOP, Trump’s equivocations would have earned him a place in the all-time rogues gallery of Enemies of the Jewish People, somewhere between Obama and Father Coughlin. Today, Evangelicals shrug them...
One of the most seductive myths in modern politics is that politics itself may one day end—that left will finally triumph over right, or right will defeat left, or moderates from both factions will...
A grownup finally steps in. Bear in mind, this is an argument aimed at Republicans.
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The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool’s errand.
Over the past year and a half, in response to bad press brought about by torrents of abuse often associated with Gamergate and the alt-right counterculture, Twitter has stepped up its effort to fight...
Readers likely recall Huntsman as being the “too liberal” GOP candidate back in 2012. So, on the one hand, I have to wonder how much his past association with the Obama administration (he was...
Trump has led polls in Ohio and Florida. If Trump beats Rubio and and Kasich there, not only does he win the state’s 165 delegates, but he likely knocks both candidates out of the...
“Whether it really represents ritualistic behavior is up for debate,” said Kalan.
If we need a clearer definition of our mission – as I think we do – we could do worse for a starting point than “Negation of Trump,” but that thought also implies that it’s significantly our fault that Trumpism is on the verge of taking over the universe…
I’m trying to understand the term “neoliberalism” that is often bandied about. I am interested in whether readers think I get it right here.
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