On the surface, the American political system looks fairly steady, with two well-known behemoths, the Democratic and Republican parties, fighting for control. But those two parties have changed a lot in recent years and those changes have remade American politics. CONT. Dante Chinni & Sally Bronston, NBC News Read more »
They’re Building a Trump-Centric Movement. But Don’t Call It Trumpism.
They’re the first to admit that trying to reorient conservatism and the Republican Party around a president who does not consider himself much of a conservative or a Republican is a bit of a riddle. But to this small group of renegade thinkers on the right, President Trump represents the […] Read more »
Why the next black president could be a Republican
… As the nation has sorted itself along party lines and antipathy has risen between the two sides , white Republicans who might harbor racial animus are willing to shelve that impulse to ensure that Democrats lose elections. “At a minimum, the level of ideological polarization in American politics masks […] Read more »
Why A Trump Pivot Might Backfire
It doesn’t take much to spur pundits and reporters to declare that President Trump is on the verge of a “pivot.” Maybe new chief of staff John Kelly will bring Trump into line, Axios reported. Maybe, after the failure of the Republican health care bill last week, the White House […] Read more »
Partisan Differences Growing on a Number of Issues
The ever-widening gulf between the views of Republicans and Democrats is one of the most significant trends to emerge in U.S. society in the past two decades. This trend is most evident in presidential job approval ratings, but a new Gallup analysis finds that political polarization also exists in Americans’ […] Read more »
Donald Trump Knows How to Push Our Buttons
Last week, when President Trump called on the police to use rough justice in dealing with violent Latino gangs, there was a clear method to his madness. … Underlying Trump’s defiance of law enforcement norms is a calculated strategy advocating the use of force, with the twofold goal of pushing […] Read more »