When threatened, the president instinctively strikes out to distract by pointing the finger of blame elsewhere.
Hillary Clinton
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Why Democrats Need to Listen to Hillary Clinton
Democracy depends on the ability to settle differences by debate and argument, not the silencing of opponents.
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Liberals Should Stop Feeding the Conservative Frame About Elitism
Since when did it become elitist to condemn racism and sexism or to believe in science?
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Will Democrats Allow the Perfect to Be the Enemy of the Good in 2020?
Do you get the sense that it won’t be enough? Do you get the sense that after all of Donald Trump’s outrages, his deceptions, his lies, his depravity, his chicanery, it still won’t be enough? Do you get the sense that three years from now, the Democratic Party will still be divided along “establishment” vs. […]
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The Main Event: Ossoff vs. Handel Has the Importance of a Presidential Election
It would have been a key race even if Rob Quist had defeated Greg Gianforte in Montana last week. Now, it’s a crucial one. The June 20 special election to determine the next representative from Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District is, at this point, every bit as important in terms of its ramifications as the 2016 […]
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The Democrats Need a Paradigm Shift
The Democrats need a solution that sells out no one.
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Will the Media Treat Ivanka Trump the Way They Treated Hillary Clinton?
Questions about her Women Entrepreneurship Fund go beyond her father’s hypocrisy.
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Bad Faith: The Religion of Trumpism
We don’t have a prayer of changing anybody’s mind about Donald Trump. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of this week’s revelations about the treachery of the 45th President is the reality that at bottom, only progressives are truly morally outraged. No Republican cheerleader will have an attack of conscience, ever. Those who made the ghastly […]
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White House Staff Join Trump’s Pattern of Lie, Distract and Blame
They are looking for something to blame on Obama as a distraction from Trump’s failures.
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Brothers in Harm: O’Reilly and Beck Would Make a Gruesome Twosome
Former Fox News star Glenn Beck has already proven that it’s hard to keep a bad man down–and now, he wants to revive the career of ex-colleague Bill O’Reilly: I would like to say publicly, honestly — and I know you’re not going to get into this, so just shut the fat trap — it’s […]
