Momentous and tragic events are driving public attention back toward abortion rights and gun control, two issues that keyed the Democratic advance in well-educated suburbs over the past generation. And that could create the Democrats’ best chance of defending those gains in the stormy environment of the 2022 midterm elections. […] Read more »
The ‘Big Lie’ wasn’t all that Georgia Republicans rejected last week
Georgia Republicans last week rejected two malignant trends within their party — one less conspicuous, but no less important, than the other. Best-known is the “Big Lie” about the 2020 election. By renominating Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the Peach State GOP rejected former President Donald […] Read more »
Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns
… Christian nationalism is emerging alongside and in some cases overlapping with other right-wing movements, such as the conspiratorial QAnon, white supremacy, and denialism over COVID-19 and the 2020 election. Christian prayers and symbols featured prominently in and around the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection there. … […] Read more »
Georgia was an aberration: The GOP is still closer to Donald Trump than it is to Mike Pence
Tuesday marked the worst performance this primary season for high-profile candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump. … But if it was a bad day for Trump, it was a good one for his former vice president. … The current President (Joe Biden) was once a vice president, so it […] Read more »
Democrats Biggest Opponent In 2022: Economic Headwinds
… In a year where the environment is relatively neutral, the specific candidates matter more. But, in a year like this one, where more than 70 percent of Americans think the country in on the wrong track, where inflation is at a 30-40 year high, and where a stubbornly strong […] Read more »
Why gun control laws don’t pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings
The front page of the local newspaper in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images) Monika L. McDermott, Fordham University and David R. Jones, Baruch College, CUNY With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress […] Read more »