For the second time this month, Republican President Donald Trump failed to carry a Republican gubernatorial candidate across the finish line in a deep-red state. Last time, Kentucky was the stage. This time it was Louisiana. … The Democrat’s victory Saturday is another demonstration of the limits of Trump’s appeal […] Read more »
Another warning for Republicans: Trump can’t win you your election
After Republicans edged out Democrats in a number of special elections in 2017, Democrats consoled themselves by noting how close they’d run in normally Republican districts. Too bad, came the rejoinder from their opponents. Moral victory or not, narrow losses don’t get you political power. While not wrong, it’s the […] Read more »
Why the Louisiana Governor’s Race Is So Close
The crucial cultural dividing line in Louisiana has always been north-south. Those who live in north Louisiana are mostly Protestant, speak with a familiar Southern twang and, in the modern era, voted heavily Republican. But rural South Louisiana is more Catholic, the accent is like nothing else (as anyone knows […] Read more »
Nothing in the impeachment hearings will change anyone’s minds
Week one of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings is over. The evidence produced so far will do nothing to change Republican support for President Trump. … The hearings exist for the sole purpose of trying to do what previous hearings held by other committees had not been able to […] Read more »
Just How Far Will Republicans Go for Trump?
The House’s public impeachment hearings will test whether Donald Trump was right when he declared that his political support is so rock-solid that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequence—and what it means for a bitterly divided nation if he was. Even some Republican political professionals privately acknowledge […] Read more »
Are Republican Views Really That Unpopular?
In the New York Times, Nicole Hemmer argues that Republicans have been able to succeed politically even as they take one unpopular position after another, thanks to undemocratic features of our political system and to undemocratic policies and attitudes they have added to that system: “Not every policy that parties […] Read more »