… I’ve spent much of the past four years trying to illuminate the historical and ideological antecedents to Donald Trump, to show how America got to this point. So I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of […] Read more »
2020 Redistricting: An Early Look
Key Points • The Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay out of adjudicating gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily change anything because the court had never put limits on partisan redistricting in the first place.• Republicans are still slated to control the drawing of many more districts than Democrats following the 2020 census, […] Read more »
A new poll shows why Trump attacked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar — and why it could get even uglier
Regardless of whether you think it was racist for President Trump to urge four nonwhite (and mostly non-immigrant) Democratic freshman congresswomen to “go back” to their countries, the practical effect is clear: He’s pitting himself against these minority women to help him win reelection in 2020, no matter how ugly […] Read more »
When Trump attacks, the base turns out – for both parties
President Donald Trump’s attacks on the four Democratic congresswomen known as the “squad” are a strange way to try to win reelection. … Many of Trump’s core supporters undoubtedly agree with his characterization of the “squad” of four Democratic progressive freshman congresswomen, and making those congresswomen the face of the […] Read more »
It’s time for a cease-fire in the latest war of words
It’s been a rough week in Washington, and it’s only Wednesday. The president created a firestorm over the weekend, lobbing rhetorical bombs at “the squad,” the four House Democratic freshmen whose heated comments and extreme policy proposals have created one fire storm of controversy after another. Now, the president’s getting […] Read more »
Latinos strongly reject racist attitudes and language
President Donald Trump’s incendiary language over the weekend triggered yet another media and public firestorm on the issue of race. His attacks targeting four non-white congresswomen and telling them to go back to their “home countries” led critics, including some prominent Republican observers, to call upon the president to retract […] Read more »