Regardless of whether you think it was racist for President Trump to urge four nonwhite (and mostly non-immigrant) Democratic freshman congresswomen to “go back” to their countries, the practical effect is clear: He’s pitting himself against these minority women to help him win reelection in 2020, no matter how ugly […] Read more »
When Trump attacks, the base turns out – for both parties
President Donald Trump’s attacks on the four Democratic congresswomen known as the “squad” are a strange way to try to win reelection. … Many of Trump’s core supporters undoubtedly agree with his characterization of the “squad” of four Democratic progressive freshman congresswomen, and making those congresswomen the face of the […] Read more »
It’s time for a cease-fire in the latest war of words
It’s been a rough week in Washington, and it’s only Wednesday. The president created a firestorm over the weekend, lobbing rhetorical bombs at “the squad,” the four House Democratic freshmen whose heated comments and extreme policy proposals have created one fire storm of controversy after another. Now, the president’s getting […] Read more »
Raging Partisanship in the Age of Trump
The phrase “elections have consequences” is both a cliché and a truism. Some used to say, “It doesn’t really matter who wins” a particular election, but it has been a while since those words have been heard. The two parties’ ideologies and values have rarely, if ever, stood in such […] Read more »
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave
Following President Donald Trump’s racist tweets this weekend telling “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen [to…] go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” only a small number of Republican members of Congress have been willing to critique Trump. … We can peg Republican silence […] Read more »
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.
America stinks. At least that’s what Donald J. Trump seemed to be saying before becoming president. He did not believe in “American exceptionalism,” he said, because America was not exceptional. Instead, it was a “laughingstock” that was no better than Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. By promising to make America great […] Read more »