… In parliamentary systems, the legislative majority party selects the government leader. Those parties can “fire” their own prime minister if he or she grows unpopular. … This is why a president’s party so infrequently supports impeachment: Doing so tends to hurt the party more than it helps. Only in […] Read more »
Four Scenarios: Republicans’ Best Endgame and Democrats’ Possible Sweep
As of Thanksgiving, there is no projection that is credibly predicting Republicans will win back the House by gaining a net of 17 seats to deny Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats a majority. But, there are a host of analysts suggesting that Trump could win re-election with less than six […] Read more »
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family
When Attorney General William Barr warned in a speech at Notre Dame on Oct. 11 that secular liberalism had unleashed “licentiousness — the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good,” there was a glaring incongruity. How could Barr possibly fail to recognize that there is […] Read more »
What past impeachments tell us about Trump’s 2020 prospects
History signals that the public’s final verdict on President Donald Trump’s possible impeachment won’t be delivered until the 2020 election — whatever happens next in the House and Senate, and however Americans react to it. … “The whole impeachment debate has intensified preexisting feelings about the President,” says Republican pollster […] Read more »
Aversion to loss, fueled by polarization, explains why a disgraced Trump is better for Republicans
After two weeks of public impeachment hearings where damning evidence was presented by numerous credible witnesses, Republicans remain steadfast in their support for their president. Trump himself has famously said that he could shoot a man in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any of his political support. […] Read more »
5 ways Trump and his supporters are using the same strategies as science deniers
President Donald Trump, during a meeting in the cabinet room at the White House, Washington, Nov. 22, 2019. AP/Susan Walsh Lee McIntyre, Boston University While watching the House impeachment hearings, I realized my two decades of research into why people ignore, reject or deny science had a political parallel. From […] Read more »