… The simple fact is that we’re not entirely sure what rules and norms are governing the 2020 invisible primary. That’s not the same as saying that no rules or norms govern it. Do Howard Schultz or Michael Bloomberg or Sally Yates have the same chances of winning the nomination […] Read more »
Americans Continue to Embrace Political Independence
Significantly more U.S. adults continued to identify as political independents (42%) in 2018 than as either Democrats (30%) or Republicans (26%). … Most independents do express a party leaning when probed, and when those leanings are taken into account, 47% of Americans on average in 2018 were Democratic identifiers or […] Read more »
Inside the House GOP more closely mirrors Trump’s mold
This week a new Democratic majority arrived in the House of Representatives promising to change Washington. But along with it came a new Republican minority that is made much more in the image of President Donald Trump. The 2018 midterms may have shifted power in Washington, but they also deepened […] Read more »
Can Americans Get Along?
FAULT LINES A History of the United States Since 1974 By Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer … Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer’s “Fault Lines” grafts a geologic metaphor onto three divisive threats to our democracy as suggested by Barack Obama in his January 2017 farewell address […] Read more »
House Republicans came back from being written off before. They can again
Through much of 2018 and especially in the weeks following the midterm elections, many opinion writers and other political pundits enthusiastically declared the Republican Party dead or at least relegated to life support. The commentary was eerily reminiscent of the post-2006 declarations that the GOP was finished … over … […] Read more »
Republicans In Congress Have Been Very Loyal To Trump. Will It Last?
… Over the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the average GOP member overwhelmingly sided with Trump — 93 percent of the time in the House and 91 percent of the time in the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Trump score metric, which tracks how often each member of Congress votes […] Read more »