Recognizing racism shouldn’t require great political courage.
Donald Trump
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The Mind of a Trump Voter
To understand the candidate you have to understand his supporters’ obsession with political correctness.
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What Binds Ryan’s Post-Truth Agenda to Trump’s Post-Policy Politics: Racism
Personally, I’ve never found the dichotomy of establishment vs insurgency to be a very helpful way of understanding what is going on in the Republican Party right now. Another way of looking at the tension is to frame it as a difference between being post-truth and post-policy. Prior to 2008, David Roberts described the post-truth […]
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Trump Would Discriminate in Judicial Appointments
Over at Politico, reporters Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim have assembled a sizable list of comments from Republican senators who are “concerned about the tone” of Donald Trump’s campaign. In particular, these senators are appalled at the way Trump has gone after Judge Gonzalo Curiel. To be sure, some of these senators are primarily […]
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What’s Going on in the Republican Party Right Now is Shocking
Would it surprise you to hear that Donald Trump said something shocking yesterday? Probably not. But here’s the latest. On a conference call with supporters, someone asked the presumptive Republican nominee about a memo issued by his campaign staff asking surrogates to stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit. Here was his response: “Take that […]
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John McCain is Acting Like Trump Will Lose Arizona
The senator is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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NeverTrump’s White Knight Refuses the Call
Last week Bill Kristol tweeted that he had found a candidate to rescue the Republican establishment from Donald Trump. After a childish Twitter feud between Kristol and Trump, reports surfaced that Kristol’s knight in shining armor was none other than high-powered and well-connected but relatively unknown GOP lawyer David French. After a some widespread and […]
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Trump’s Narcissism Makes It Hard for Him to Tack to Center
In the weeks following Trump’s mathematical lock on the GOP nomination, the candidate and party establishment have attempted to come to a detente and make overtures toward tacking to center in the general election. We have seen high-profile politicians say that Trump’s political racism and bigotry is an act he put on to win the […]
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Elizabeth Warren, Superdelegate, Gets It Right on Opposing Superdelegates
Elizabeth Warren is one of the hottest stars in politics, in large part because of her blunt honesty and her willingness to directly oppose the predatory financial industry in a way that few other politicians dare to. Hillary Clinton is said to be strongly considering Warren as a potential vice-presidential pick, a move that would […]
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The Electoral College Will Be Trump’s Downfall, Even if Clinton Falls Flat
I can say with some satisfaction that I have never underestimated Donald Trump. That’s important. While most every other pundit was writing his political epitaphs, I was predicting early on that Trump or Cruz–and probably Trump–would take the nomination over anyone in the establishment lane. (I also predicted that Sanders would do better against Clinton […]
