Why Obama Failed to Build an Enduring Movement
History is always more complcated than a headline. Yet, we love headlines, tweets, memes: simple equations to answer complicated problems.In 2010, after many tough and near-fatal compromises on passing...
View ArticleTrump's Ties to Russian and Chinese Influence are As Clear as the Views from...
Reuters reports that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida:The buyers...
View ArticleHas Trump Already Lost His Base?
Just after Christmas dinner, my father-in-law, a WWII vet totally in the tank for Trump and anyone else that Fox News conjures up as being good for ‘Murica, pulled me aside and asked me frankly,...
View Article#UnFollowTrump - A Twitter Meme Worth Supporting
Twitter is a horrible medium. For a few bucks you can pump up your “importance” with thousands of followers, and for a few dollars more, get some offshore outfits — including many located in Russia and...
View Article"The Myth of Main Street" Myth: Globalism Fueled the Right
I try to steer clear of The New York Times’ Op-Ed stuff these days — mostly just fluff and hung-over columnists spouting off the jokes that made people in NYC’s elite bars laugh the night before — but...
View ArticleOssoff Aftermath: Culture and Narrative Trumps Ad Buys
The New York Times features a whole lotta Democrats wringing their hands and realizing after Jon Ossoff’s loss in “winnable” red GA-06, mebbe they really DON’T get how to win elections in the...
View ArticleOprah for President? Maybe Dems Will Wake Up + Say "Yes"
As the progressive suicide squad immediately concern-trolls and nay-says the very possibility of an Oprah Winfrey candidacy for President of the United States of America, I have to ask: how is it that...
View ArticleFooled Again: Kavanaugh/Ford Hearings Hand Trump A Hillary Clinton Surrogate
I don’t really want to write this post. I know that it will draw some fire, but it needs to be said: Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh as a SCOTUS nominee on purpose, knowing that his background would draw...
View ArticleStar Wars Redux: Trump's Space Defense Strategy Recycles Reagan. Again.
As I was watching the train wreck known as our government shutdown unfold, it came to me that the Orange in Chief was clinging to an impossible defense idea that appealed to “average” voters in much...
View ArticleDon't Doubt Nancy Pelosi's Plan
Back in the 1980s, Spy magazine was an icon of sharp, urban New York wit, a time when Donald John Trump was beginning to become more visible in the media world, thanks to his business and love life...
View ArticleEndgame: Is Pelosi Right on Impeachment Strategy?
With the news wires a-twitter with word that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants Trump “in prison” more than she wants him impeached, the question is whether this is actually a...
View ArticleImpeachment and 2020 U.S. Senate Races: It's in the Timing
Fact number one: impeachment of Donald Trump is going to happen.Fact number two: Trump will never be convicted by the Republican-controlled Senate.Played right, facts one and two could hand Democrats...
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