If, as they say, God only looks after children and fools, the Almighty must be having one hell of a time dealing with the childlike reasoning of those who voted for Donald Trump. Consider the pretzel logic of recent USA Today guest columnist Melody Forbes: I voted for Donald Trump because I wanted to see […]
D.R. Tucker
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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The Enemy One Cannot Negotiate With
Back in November, I noted that former Secretary of State John Kerry has been promoted as a potential candidate to challenge Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker, and that Setti Warren, a former aide to Kerry who is now the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, is also contemplating a challenge to Baker. Warren is regarded as having […]
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Despite Yesterday’s Uprising, We Could Still Wind Up with Two Terms of Trump
There’s an old West Indian saying that goes, “Hard ears that don’t hear, by and by will feel.” It’s not irrational to be concerned that this proverb will be proven true three years from now. The 2020 Presidential election will be here before too long, and if the Democratic Party goes into the general election […]
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Is the DNC Chair Race Becoming A Disgrace?
Just as it’s dishonest for apparent supporters of Democratic National Committee chairmanship candidate Keith Ellison to smear fellow candidate Tom Perez as a toady of the “establishment,” it’s equally dishonest for apparent supporters of Perez to demonize Ellison as some crypto-anti-Semite. The pro-Perez folks keep dredging up Ellison’s history with Nation of Islam leader Louis […]
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A Worsening Political Climate
Sometimes, you just have to appreciate the small things. Ten years ago Monday, George W. Bush–you know, the last Republican to slide into the Oval Office without winning the popular vote–delivered his second-to-last State of the Union Address, and for the first time in a Bush SOTU speech, he acknowledged the reality of a problem […]
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March Now, Vote Later
I’m not impressed. Yet. No, I’m not referring to DT–the perfect initials for the 45th president, as those initials also stand for “delirium tremens,” which is what everyone who voted for him must have been suffering from when they endorsed this extremist–but with those who are demonstrating against Mr. Trump. Yes, millions will take to […]
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The Task Before Us
Was he appreciated in his time? When Barack Obama leaves the Oval Office in twelve days, he would be well within his rights to depart from the White House as a bitter man–bitter over the level of unjustified hatred he received from the right, bitter over the mainstream media’s refusal to comprehensively cover his successes […]
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You Know the Drill
What will he say during the deposition? “My bad”? For all my skepticism about the effort by young climate activists in Oregon to have the federal courts effectively shut down the fossil-fuel industry, I have to admit this is a clever idea: Lawyers for teenagers claiming the US government failed to protect the environment from […]
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Not This Nonsense Again
You’d figure that the outcome of the 2016 presidential election–and the urgent need to resist Donald Trump by any political means available–would focus the mind of the Democratic Party, preventing party members from getting bogged down in the “establishment” vs. “outsider” fight that only serves to divide and destroy Democrats. You’d figure wrong, as the […]
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Orange Alert
Maybe Donald Trump had better things to do that morning. Perhaps the science-scorning scoundrel would have learned something 35 years ago today, if he had read the report in the New York Times about the crisis that would threaten his city three decades later in the form of Superstorm Sandy–a crisis he would shamefully deny […]
