#1. Both Sides Think They’re Winning & Plan to Double-Down CONT. – pdf Bruce Mehlman, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas Read more »
For Trump, a Year of Reinventing the Presidency
… Mr. Trump is the 45th president of the United States, but he has spent much of his first year in office defying the conventions and norms established by the previous 44, and transforming the presidency in ways that were once unimaginable. Under Mr. Trump, it has become a blunt […] Read more »
The Republican tax bill is an American betrayal
… There is something wrong with a political system where the presidency is won on a populist message and the resulting policy is pure plutocracy, where #DrainTheSwamp becomes tax breaks for hedge funds, the well-connected, and the president’s family. But there is also something confusing about it. This is not […] Read more »
How Republicans Learned to Sell Tax Cuts for the Rich
If anyone still believed that the Republican Party had become a party of economic populism, the tax bill that the party is set to pass in Congress will burst their bubble. … But the Republican tax strategy has roots in the American populist tradition, too. That strategy is to disregard […] Read more »
Roy Moore’s Alabama
… I have closely studied Winston County history and have long been proud of my ancestral ties. I wanted to explore whether traditional Republicanism could fully explain how the Old South’s most independent thinkers became Trump zombies willing now to send a plausibly accused pedophile to the Senate rather than […] Read more »
The populist challenge to liberal democracy
On November 29, William A. Galston delivered the fourteenth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World. … In his remarks titled “The populist challenge to liberal democracy,” Galston examines sobering events of the past quarter century and the emergence of an internal threat—driven by populists—facing liberal democracy today. […] Read more »