Democratic Candidates Aren’t on a Winning Track
Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But for the general election, the […]
The Anti-Trump Circus
We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature. The Left should have learned something after […]
2020 Has Echoes of 1996 for the Opposition Party
The Democrats have assembled a field of candidates for 2020 as large as it is unimpressive. From the slick Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and the media […]
The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different
The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over. Mueller’s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, […]
Only Five Democrats Have a Serious Shot at the Nomination
If the run-up to the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries were a television series, it very easily would have made for one of the most entertaining […]
The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity
Americans always have been prone to reinventing themselves. We now live in an age of radical social construction—a sort of expansive update on F. Scott […]
Warren’s Palatable Radicalism Could Win
One can’t digitally swing a cat on Facebook. No space. All those memes. Thickening in their japery. Emboldened, strengthened, armored, by like after like after […]
The Circus of Resistance
The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week. Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt […]
Lessons from Mollie Tibbetts and Other Murder Victims
A Mexican illegal alien who supposedly “blacked out” after abducting Mollie Tibbetts still managed to lead Iowa police to the body of the 20-year-old University […]
Progressive Regression
Donald Trump has certainly changed the rules of presidential behavior, through his nonstop campaign rallies, tweets, and press conferences. What his critics call lowering the […]
Abolishing the Democrats
It’s almost as if the Democrats cultured their newest and shiniest pet in a petri dish. Person of color? Check. Not male, pale, or stale? […]
Do Even Democrats Believe What They’re Selling?
Donna Brazile was 9-years-old when she cut her political teeth. After hearing that a local candidate for New Orleans city council pledged to build a […]
Pelosi Reacts to the Republican Tax Cut
In those ubiquitous YouTube videos riffing on that famous scene from “Downfall,” Hitler flies off the handle when he learns that all is lost and […]
Elizabeth Warren Is Fighting the Wrong Fight, Part 2
In her newest book, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), makes the case that the Reagan-era tax cuts were the thing most responsible for the decline of […]
Elizabeth Warren Is Fighting the Wrong Fight (Part I)
While promoting her new book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Senator Elizabeth […]