Howard Dean has finally come up with a rejoinder to the old Will Rogers line about the Democratic Party and its inability to organize itself properly. “The answer is not to organize ourselves better. The answer is to cooperate better, because we’re never going to have a top-down model. So […] Read more »
In Days of Discord, a President Fans the Flames
With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Trump’s first instinct has been to look for someone to fight. … The days of discord have put the president’s leadership style on […] Read more »
The Future of the Democratic Party
… The Democratic Party’s foremost goal is to remove President Donald Trump from office, but they’ll need to respond sufficiently to questions surrounding racial and economic inequality in addition to the fault lines exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. A roundtable discussion about the future of the Democratic Party and the […] Read more »
Mail-in ballots, the coronavirus, and a partisan brawl
When it comes to voting, Democrats and Republicans cultivate their own myths. Democrats are sure that there are millions of voters out there who, if it were easy to vote, would vote for them. Republicans are equally sure that if voting is too easy it would lead to a large […] Read more »
Age Versus Politics in Determining Virus-Related Attitudes
… The remarkable thing about these findings is the degree to which the subjective factor of partisanship is a much more powerful correlate of worry about the virus and self-isolation than the objective factor of age. I call age an objective factor because the relationship between age and higher probabilities […] Read more »
GOP operatives worry Trump will lose both the presidency and Senate majority
… Republican strategists are increasingly worried that Trump is headed for defeat in November and that he may drag other Republicans down with him. Seven GOP operatives not directly associated with the President’s reelection campaign told CNN that Trump’s response to the pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout have significantly […] Read more »