None Dare Call It A Conspiracy, Because It Wasn’t
Given the options – a sham blitz primary/floor fight, with GOP legal challenges to follow – Democrats made the best of a bad situation.
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Against ‘National Divorce’
So, is ‘national divorce’ a reasonable idea? Perhaps
Voting for Nothing For the Last Time
We get from the Democrats a not-so-polite “no,” with a hint of self-righteous anger and condescension, when we dare demand better from them.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Distant Sounds of Inevitability Edition
Crisis reveals character, the old saying goes. Our institutions and leaders are having that exact experience right now.
Failure Propagates Upward For Democratic Party
The GOP still controls the vast majority of state legislatures and outnumbers the Democrats in states where they control both the governor’s house and the legislature. And that matters a lot.
Senator Cory Booker Announces POTUS Run
Surprising no one, Senator Cory Booker is getting into the crowded 2020 field of Democratic Party hopefuls.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to Announce Presidential Run
And then there were 4. Or 5. Or six. Depends on who you are counting as officially running for the Democratic Nomination for President in 2020. But this probably bears watching closely, as some of the powers that be have already expressed excitement for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Julian Castro Declares 2020 POTUS Bid
His announcement was not surprising, having made little secret of his ambition for higher office. At 44, he will be one of the younger candidates, something he is used to as he has been youngest city council member, youngest mayor, and youngest Obama cabinet official over the course of his career.
Rep Tulsi Gabbard Running for President
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she’s running for president in 2020. Or rather, she annoucned that she is going to announce in a released clip from her forthcoming interview with CNN’s Van Jones.
The Democratic Party Was Not Always This Way
The civil rights party realignment didn’t really happen until 2008.
After Trump
Comity, good faith, and bi-partisanship are at an end. How should the Democratic Party conduct itself after Trump?
A One Party Nation
The Democratic Party is collapsing, and has been collapsing for a decade. Having the Presidency just hid all the rot happening elsewhere. Now we face the prospect of one party rule in a way we have not seen before, led by a type of President we have not seen before.
I Want to Watch Michelle Malkin Cry
California goes plurality Hispanic, spelling trouble for the GOP.
Reliving The Nightmare: The Washington Post Revisits The Grand Bargain
A new blockbuster report from The Washington Post serves as yet another retrospective on the failed Grand Bargain debt-ceiling negotiations of last summer, despite this being a period of our history that most Americans...
Rumors of the Democratic Party’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Richard Miniter thinks the Democrats are doomed. I think he’s wrong, but before we get into that let me just say one thing: whenever anyone predicts the downfall of a major political party in...
The Class of ’06
There are some good things to be said about absorbing periodic electoral “shellackings.” For one thing, it gives the shellacked party an opportunity to reflect a bit, to let internal battles sort themselves out,...
Making Sense of Public Opinion
by E.C. Gach Last winter I was struck by a Jacob Weisberg piece over at Slate. The thrust of the article was the following: all of our political troubles are the result of…well…ourselves! People just...
Healthcare and monopoly
Russell Arben Fox asks: How should a distributist or localist or communitarian in America feel about proposals which would attempt to provide the same sort of equalization which Democratic party reformers are squawking about,...
One minor quibble
Andrew Sullivan on his intellectual consistency: I was appalled by the anti-Semitism buried within ANSWER – the left-wing equivalent of the Tea Party peeps – their paranoia and their ad Hitlerum daffiness. I railed...
Post-election ruminations
So let’s see – in Virginia a life-long social conservative, Bob McDonnell, ran as a pragmatist and beat the tar out of Democrat Creigh Deeds. Exit polls show a majority of Virginians still support...
