Voting for Republicans is Voting for Fascism
It is up to all of us to be honest and clear eyed about what it means to support such a party that doesn’t support democracy
Tagged: Republican
America Needs Farmers, Just Not Their Politics
America Needs Farmers, or more accurately needs a strong agricultural industry, but do they need the regressive politics that come with them?
Republicans Can’t Win on Spectacle Alone
The idea of vapid Republican behavior in office is tied to the immense power of conservative media in the United States
Make the 1920s Great Again? A Superficially Appealing Story of The Republican Party
Rather than a return to the Republican past, Trump was a bombastic expression of existing and continued trends.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Post-election Intramurals Edition
It’s Intramurals for Harsh Your Mellow Monday; Team Blue’s AOC v. Joe Manchin, Team Red’s Crenshaw v. Green, Fox News v. MAGA in media, plus much more.
The Revolution That Didn’t Come
The Democratic Party has demonstrated that it is not the Republican Party in search of a freak flag to fly. Saved by a 55/45 party. For now.
What Is the Purpose of Primaries
So, what’s the purpose of primaries anyway? Are they a process by which a political party selects its nominees, or is a function of the overall US election system?
This Party Cannot Be Saved
With the nomination of Donald Trump, the Republican Party has fully embraced white nationalism. This means it is a party that can’t be saved.
Immigration Reform’s Last Best Chance
Why a clever grassroots style campaign to persuade Congressional Republicans to allow a vote on reform still won’t work.
The Meaning Of Santorum
The Atlantic‘s David A. Graham thinks there are three major ways in which the now-suspended Santorum campaign diminished Mitt Romney’s chances of besting the President: 1. He has pulled Romney to the right on key...
Waste and Abuse
So, we’ve just narrowly averted — do we avert things in any other way? — we’ve just narrowly averted yet another government shutdown. I can’t help but feel that the magic is gone, and...
“An Incompatible Combination”
I’ve watched every presidential debate thus far in the Republican primary. And I’ve done more than my fair share of laughing, weeping, and sometimes just staring blankly at the television screen. In a way,...
Do Gay Rights Hurt Democrats?
In Jason’s post on DADT’s repeal, he noted: One thing that history won’t remember, but that will certainly be true, is that the Democrats chose the single moment in all the possible permutations of...
Dealing With Political Blind Spots
Ezra Klein had a great rundown yesterday on a psychological phenomenon called motivated skepticism: On the simplest level, American politics presents us with an incentives problem: McConnell — like most minority leaders — is an...
A “Total Miscarriage of Justice”
Image via Wikipedia That’s how incoming House homeland security chair Pete King described the Ghailani trial. Ghailani (pictured) was, of course, found guilty on only one of the 285 charges brought against him, and...
Everybody loves Cheerios
I’m always drawn to these kinds of studies, even though they’re never really insightful. This one mainly backs up what everyone already knows about geography and age demographics among partisans (is it really any...
The Party of Theocracy
As of last week, we all know that Christine O’Donnell doesn’t much care for separation of church and state. As far as surprising campaign knows goes, that’s near the very bottom of the list,...
Parties aren’t arbitrary collections of interest groups either
In one way, I agree with Mark’s post. There is nothing inherently liberal in the Democratic Party, and nothing inherently conservative in the Republican Party. All of the most common ideological terms – conservative,...
I don’t actually recall having any debate
This Gallup poll has gotten a bunch of attention, and I figure it’s worth posting here: Yesterday, Ruth Marcus (or rather, whoever writes her subheadline) called the House debate over the health care bill...
