It doesn’t matter how many women come forward. It doesn’t matter how many Republicans say he should pull out of the race. It doesn’t matter how horrified the country as a whole is over the allegations. Roy Moore will not drop out of the special US Senate election scheduled to take place on December 12 […]
Republican Party
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why the Democrats Need to Care About Rural Voters
A truly successful left-wing party in this country has to have more geographic and cultural depth than the Democrats have right now.
Posted inPolitical Animal
A Realignment That’s a Year Late
Last year’s best-case scenario finally came true last night.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Republicans, Armed with Thoughts and Prayers After Texas
Nothing changed after Newtown. Nothing changed after Orlando. Nothing changed after Las Vegas. Sadly, nothing will change after this: A gunman wearing all black and a ballistic vest opened fire with a rifle outside a small Baptist church in rural Texas and continued firing inside the building on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and […]
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2017
Meet the Trumpkins
A crop of Republicans are betting that a Trump-style mix of crassness and white grievance will bring them victory in 2018.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump’s Strange Appeal to Cultural Conservatives
The people of Pound, Virginia, banned dancing but saw nothing morally depraved about Trump.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Movement Conservatism Protects Itself With Racism
The GOP’s racial polarization strategy allows them to avoid appealing to immigrant communities.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Is the GOP in the Best Place It’s Ever Been?
RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel thinks so—but it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump Is an Agent of Voter Suppression
The votes Trump will suppress will be Republican, too.
Posted inMain, Political Animal
Movement Conservatives Are out For Blood
The real battle isn’t over taxes, but for total control of a major political party.
