… Something nearly unthinkable happened in Georgia in 2018. More black voters, more Asian-American/Pacific Island voters and more Latino voters turned out than in the 2016 presidential election. Sure, turnout was up everywhere and at presidential levels in many states. But Georgia was the only state where midterm turnout was […] Read more »
Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message
First he was the self-described “wartime president.” Then he trumpeted the “total” authority of the federal government. But in the past few days, President Trump has nurtured protests against state-issued stay-at-home orders aimed at curtailing the spread of the coronavirus. … Now, with Mr. Trump’s poll numbers falling after a […] Read more »
How Trump Turned the Pandemic Into Identity Politics
No one really knows where the arc of history is bending these days, but this weekend we got a good look at where the arc of conservative activism is heading. The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has now topped 40,000 but, egged on by presidential tweets, […] Read more »
Trump Has a Gut Feeling About What Covid-19 Means for 2020
Evidence of President Trump’s mishandling of the current Covid-19 emergency has been building steadily. Most recently, The Washington Post on April 4 (“The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged”) and The Times on April 11 (“He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure […] 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 »
Super Tuesday: Why didn’t more young people vote?
Young people are the future of politics – or at least, they should be. In the US, people aged 39 and younger – millennials and Generation Z – now make up more than a third of eligible voters. They’re considered more ethnically diverse, and liberal, than older generations, and experts […] Read more »