Trump and McConnell are punishing their own party for refusing to follow their failed leadership.
Gerald Ford
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What a President Pence Could Learn from FDR
A President Pence would take over an imperiled country and could learn from FDR’s experience.
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The Democrats Need to Take the Long View
What helps Dems win in 2018 could cause them to lose in 2020
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It Keeps You Runnin’
Here’s another nightmare scenario to ponder, even if it might seem a bit remote: what if Donald Trump loses the 2016 Presidential election by a margin so close that he could actually come back four years from now? There’s a reason why the New York Daily News ran that editorial last week expressing hope that […]
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Virtual Insanity
Remember when Dr. Alvin Poussaint, the acclaimed Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor, argued that racism should be considered a form of mental illness? I could never figure out why Poussaint’s contention was considered controversial; it struck me as basic common sense that hatred based on race or culture is incompatible with rational thinking. Nearly two […]
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Brain-Free Zones
Will the 2016 Republican National Convention set a new record for the largest collection of losers in one arena? This year’s catastrophe in Cleveland will not be uniquely disastrous, only because the quadrennial event has always been a hot mess. Can you think of one GOP convention in recent history that didn’t display the worst […]
