Donald Trump is a stone cold racist. So are most of his supporters. These facts are incontrovertible, and no realistic analysis of the current state of political affairs can be written without acknowledging them up front. Unfortunately, those realities have led many intelligent analysts to overinterpret the results of the […] Read more »
When ‘Democrat’ is a worse slur than ‘alleged sexual miscreant’
President Trump’s rationale for continuing to support Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the Senate in the Alabama, was simple when he offered it on Tuesday. “We don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,” Trump said. The contrast Trump drew, then, was this. Either Moore, accused of sexual […] Read more »
Pizza Is Partisan, and Advertisers Are Still Adjusting
In today’s political climate, even pizza, bourbon and coffee can be partisan issues. A year after the presidential election, a range of advertisers are learning that it doesn’t take much — sometimes just a single Twitter post — to land them in the middle of a social media firestorm that […] Read more »
Republicans’ beliefs are bending to Trump. Here’s why they might not even notice.
If you look at polling data, there are a few issues on which Republican voters seem to have changed their beliefs since Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency. … It’s easy to look at these changing poll numbers and see something blatantly hypocritical — that these Americans are […] Read more »
Alabama Senate Race Aggravates Deep Divide in Republican Party
There was a time when the question of whether to disown a candidate accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl was fairly straightforward. But the divisions in the Republican Party run so deep that the latest rallying cry for many on the right has become the case of Roy S. […] Read more »
What Democratic civil war? The left already won.
There’s been lots of talk about a supposed civil war brewing within the Democratic Party, as its centrist and progressive wings vie for power. But at least as a matter of presidential politics, this talk isn’t premature — it’s too late. The war may not have been won but the […] Read more »