The South is often viewed as a conservative monolith, but the region’s political views are more nuanced — and moderate — than many might expect, according to new NBC News | SurveyMonkey polls. CONT. Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News Read more »
Paul Ryan Personifies the Devil’s Bargain the GOP Struck With Trump
Paul Ryan, who once aspired to advance the vision of conservative icon Jack Kemp, will leave Washington carrying a more tarnished legacy—as the most important enabler of Donald Trump. No one in the GOP was better equipped, by position and disposition alike, to resist Trump’s racially infused, insular nationalism, or […] Read more »
Evangelicals and Trump
Highly religious Americans are significantly more likely than others to identify as Republicans. This is a robust, continuous facet of American society. … Some of the discussion in contemporary public discourse seems to assume that evangelicals start with a blank slate when they look at the president, making their approval […] Read more »
Rallying Nation: In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political
Tens of millions of Americans have joined protests and rallies in the past two years, their activism often driven by admiration or outrage toward President Trump, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll showing a new activism that could affect November elections. One in five Americans have protested in […] Read more »
A Jacksonian Moment in U.S. Foreign Policy: Will it Last?
… “Jacksonian” is the term Walter Russell Mead coined in his 2002 book Special Providence to reflect a foreign policy tradition that was inward looking, shunned international engagement, but prepared to aggressively defend US national security if the country was threatened. … The Chicago Council, where I’m a nonresident fellow, […] Read more »
The post-Trump GOP looks a lot like the pre-Trump GOP
Has Donald Trump fundamentally reshaped the Republican Party in his image? In fact, what evidence we have suggests that Republicans are only temporarily aligned with Trump on a range of issues, and the party will likely return to its earlier stances once his substantial media presence has faded. CONT. Christopher […] Read more »