Joseph R. Biden Jr. didn’t just win the Michigan primary this week. The turnout and demographic patterns of voters, from African-Americans in Detroit to affluent suburbanites to working-class white voters in rural areas, provided evidence of a broader Democratic coalition than the party mobilized in 2016, a powerful warning shot […] Read more »
Conservatives believe they’re battling to save America’s soul by supporting Trump
Conservatives are preparing to wage political war against Democrats by painting them as socialists — and therefore un-American. That’s what I learned from my research at the 2019 and 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual meeting of conservatives in the country, which took place this year from […] Read more »
Will Coronavirus Shake Up the Political Stasis?
The one constant in these last three and a half years has been chaos. Almost every week, there is an event, issue or moment that looks as if it may upend our current political stasis or rattle the economy. But so far, nothing, not a government shutdown, nor impeachment, nor […] Read more »
What Would It Take for Bernie Sanders to Win?
After another strong showing by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Tuesday’s primary contests, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced that he was staying in the race for president. But Mr. Sanders will need to do substantially better in the contests that remain to secure enough delegates to […] Read more »
Trump’s Re-election Chances Suddenly Look Shakier
President Trump faces the biggest challenge yet to his prospects of being re-elected, with his advisers’ two major assumptions for the campaign — a booming economy and an opponent easily vilified as too far left — quickly evaporating. After a year in which Mr. Trump has told voters that they […] Read more »
Bernie: The Left is Still Waiting for the Proletariat Vote
Bernie Sanders often declared that his is “a campaign of the working class, by the working class, and for the working class,” calling for that class to rise up, vote for him, and make the democratic socialist revolution. He was sorely disappointed. At this writing, soon after the second “Super […] Read more »