Unlike … many people apparently, I don’t think Trump’s rhetoric and embrace of hate groups makes him significantly more alarming than the rest of the GOP. But then, I don’t think it makes him significantly different from the rest of the GOP. For as long as I can remember, the GOP has been extremely and […]
Category: democracy
Democrats are feeling the Trumpentum! According the Washington Times!! Democrats, independents sign up with GOP to vote in primaries More than 240,000 new Democrats and independents showed up to vote
Man trapped in burning house wants everyone to know smoke is coming from his neighbor’s chimney. WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following
There’s a great deal of discussion about who would make the worst Republican nominee and/or president. For my own amusement here’s how I rate the GOP’s current top three. Least worst – Donald Trump, shouty ambulatory wig stand for president! Pros – None, but watching Dr. V. Frankenstein alternate between flailing at his advancing monster […]
I wasn’t going to post this, because of the obnoxious policies of academic publishers that would normally prevent me from providing an open link, but I’ve learned that Cambridge has opened the gat
So I was trying to have a discussion/argument with Henry Farrell on twitter, which was primarily useful for reminding me how much I dislike twitter. I’m still trying to make sense of where he&
Yglesias says what needs to be said about Andrew Sullivan’s meditation on Marc Bloch: But on top of that, though there clearly is a sense in which current American politics is very polarized, there’s another sense in which our levels of polarization are almost trivial compared to 1930s France. We don’t have a substantial revolutionary […]
…or so Peter Baker would have you believe. That’s not quite fair to Baker, but it’s not far off, either. Baker allows that slashed budgets and “unforeseen” events have wo