We spend a lot of time talking about the structural barriers that Democrats face, most notably the malapportionment of the Senate and, relatedly, the Electoral College. Democrats must also contend wit
My wife likes to mock claims that Trump can’t possibly be a fascist by quipping that, “if it’s not 1930s Europe, then it’s just sparkling authoritarianism.” In the last f
Upping Jamelle Bouie’s piece today. Trump is not an aberration in American history, except for arguably his personal behavior. Otherwise, everything about him is something that other presidents
The wish by media elites that the Republican Party isn’t what it is is kind of pathetic, largely because these are the people who are supposed to be able to analyze these kind of changes. Despit
More than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. If the United States was governed by a barely competent and vaguely public-spirited administration, the country might have suffered somewhere in the
Trump trying to revive the campaign of George Wallace has always seemed bizarre to me and no part more so than the fear mongering about suburbs. The suburbs have become significantly more diverse in r
The forest policy side of my life really wants to drown in a bottle of tequila right now, as my home states burns. On climate change and fires, Trump says weighed in on “explosive trees.” Here’s
There’s been some suggestion that Donald Trump entered Republic politics – and eventually ran for president – in order to perpetrate an affinity scam. By that I don’t mean he was