… Perhaps the biggest news coming out of this week’s CNN presidential debates was the seeming criticism of former President Barack Obama’s policies while in office. It was a stunning turn because anyone looking at the polling data can see that Obama and many of his policies (such as the […] Read more »
Conservatives Are Hiding Their ‘Loathing’ Behind Our Flag
The Republican Party under Donald Trump has devolved into a populist cult of personality. But Mr. Trump won’t be president forever. Can the cult persist without its personality? Does Trumpist nationalism contain a kernel of coherent ideology that can outlast the Trump presidency? At a recent conference in Washington, a […] Read more »
The Black Vote in the United States
The African American vote has become critical in presidential elections, especially in the race for the Democratic nomination. However, there are key moments in the history of the African American vote that catapulted it into such prominence. On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, Steve Kornacki (@stevekornacki), National Political Correspondent […] Read more »
More voters think Donald Trump is a racist than thought George Wallace was in 1968
A Quinnipiac University poll out this week shows that a majority (51%) of voters believe that President Donald Trump is a racist. Forty-five percent say that he is not. To opponents of the President, this poll may not be surprising. But think about it for a second. This isn’t just […] Read more »
Republicans don’t think Trump’s tweets are racist. That fits a long American history of denying racism.
During Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency, there has been an ongoing debate about whether Trump’s words and even the president himself should be called “racist.” … To understand this debate about Trump and racism, it’s important to put it in historical perspective. First, it is but one episode in a […] Read more »
Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics
Carol Evans approves of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. … “I just don’t like the way he talks about other people,” Evans, a 79-year-old retired data entry supervisor, said recently as she walked through a shopping mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin, days after Trump fired off a racist tweet at Democratic congresswomen. […] Read more »