From time to time I think about the first time I tried the Southern delicacy that is turducken—a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck, all inside a deboned turkey. I didn’t like it. As somebody once said, “There is just too much going on there.” We have a lot […] Read more »
‘They’re afraid’: Suburban voters in red states threaten GOP’s grip on power
Republicans face a reckoning in the red-state suburbs that have long been a bedrock for the party, propelled by the stormy confluence of President Trump’s searing racial attacks, economic turbulence and frustration with government inaction after last weekend’s deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The GOP lost its House […] Read more »
From a former disbeliever: Why Texas could go blue in 2020
Texas politics are in the spotlight again this week. A number of House Republicans from the state have announced their retirements, and, after a mass shooting in El Paso this past weekend, Beto O’Rourke tussled with President Donald Trump over differing responses to the shootings. In the backdrop of these […] Read more »
What Orange County turning blue tells us about California politics … and politics nationally
The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday marked a milestone in California politics: Orange County, once a bastion of Republican politics in the state and nationally, now has more registered Democrats than Republicans. This is not, however, simply some sort of reaction to the current occupant of the White House from […] Read more »
Did El Paso show us that white supremacists are a serious threat? Few Republicans think so.
Last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso has refocused the nation’s attention on the threat of white supremacism. … Over the past decade, right-wing extremist killings have outnumbered those by Islamist extremists about 3 to 1 in the United States. Yet while there is a widespread and bipartisan consensus that […] Read more »
Republicans Now Are More Open to the Idea of Expanding Presidential Power
Most Americans continue to say that it would be “too risky” to give the nation’s presidents more power, but the share expressing this opinion has declined since last year, with most of the change coming among Republicans. Currently, 66% of the public says “it would be too risky to give […] Read more »