Is Donald Trump tightening his grip on the Republican Party? This week, only four House Republicans voted to condemn Trump’s latest questionable tweets — which may make it seem that the GOP is united behind Trump. But nearly 20 Republicans have unequivocally condemned Trump’s language in recent days. Their actions […] Read more »
Trump Employs an Old Tactic: Using Race for Gain
For the fourth season of “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump searched for a gimmick to bolster ratings. His idea was simple if explosive — pit an all-white team against an all-black team. “Do you like it?” he asked, previewing the concept on Howard Stern’s radio show in April 2005. “Yes,” […] Read more »
How Trump’s 2020 reelection strategy could work — but probably won’t
… The Trump strategy is pretty simple: 1. Drive up the unfavorable ratings of his Democratic rival as he did in 2016 in order to compensate for his own low ratings. 2. Bank on an electoral college/popular vote split as he did in 2016. 3. Use a campaign of racial […] Read more »
Presidential tweets and Democratic representatives: The partisan chasm
President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking “The Squad”—four freshman Democratic Congresswomen who have criticized him – may have made them better known. The four women of color remain popular with Democrats in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll. Democrats have positive opinions about all of them. In addition, Democrats are on board with […] Read more »
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
… I’ve spent much of the past four years trying to illuminate the historical and ideological antecedents to Donald Trump, to show how America got to this point. So I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of […] Read more »
2020 Redistricting: An Early Look
Key Points • The Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay out of adjudicating gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily change anything because the court had never put limits on partisan redistricting in the first place.• Republicans are still slated to control the drawing of many more districts than Democrats following the 2020 census, […] Read more »