The other day, Ron Brownstein served up a comprehensive, detailed analysis that suggested President Trump’s base may be fracturing. In particular, Brownstein looked at an array of data that suggests blue-collar white women may be turning on Trump. Fresh numbers from a new Quinnipiac poll, provided to this blog, underscore […] Read more »
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.
President Trump’s “go back” tweets, directed at four congresswomen of color, elicited strong condemnation of both the president – and of GOP lawmakers who failed to denounce Trump’s racist tweets. Although overt expressions of racism from a president have long been considered politically unthinkable, many analysts view Trump’s latest provocations […] Read more »
As Redress for Slavery, Americans Oppose Cash Reparations
In June, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing on reparations to African Americans for the first time in more than in a decade. While reparations could take many forms, the most straightforward would be cash payments by the government […] Read more »
The economy isn’t saving Trump because he keeps getting in the way
Any president running for reelection with an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent, sustained economic growth and a record-breaking stock market would be a strong favorite to win a second term. President Trump is the exception. Trump may yet win a second term, but his prospects continue to be dragged down […] Read more »
Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters
President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent black congressman’s Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” … The outburst also undercut efforts by many Republicans over the past two weeks to defend Trump and insist that his earlier attacks were based […] Read more »
Is Trump’s Use Of Identity Politics An Effective Strategy?
From suggesting on his first day as a presidential candidate back in 2015 that Mexico was intentionally sending “rapists” to America to calling last week for several liberal congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries, President Trump has repeatedly used racial and at times racist language over the […] Read more »