Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) express little or no confidence in technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January. At the same time, 78% say these companies have […] Read more »
The Audacity of Hate
… The Tea Party changed what it was permissible to debate openly in contemporary politics. Within a few years, it enabled Trump to further erode the norms of political combat and more openly instigate partisan conflict based on racial and ethnic antagonism. Under Trump, coded rhetoric like Reagan’s “welfare queen” […] Read more »
Bloomberg’s counterattacks may just resonate with Democrats
… I’ve been skeptical about Bloomberg’s chances and remain so. He has plenty of assets and liabilities as a Democratic candidate. But I’m at least a little less skeptical after seeing his counterpunching when attacked by Trump. Polls show that Democrats are “angry” with Trump, and a take-the-gloves-off approach has […] Read more »
Trump Is Waiting and He Is Ready
There are three crucial developments working in Donald Trump’s favor in the 2020 presidential campaign. These include what a group of Harvard economists — Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva and Armando Miano — describe in a recent paper as “The Polarization of Reality.” They write: Evidence is growing that Americans are […] Read more »
Putin would recognize Trump’s ‘reality TV’ techniques in the State of the Union address
On Feb, 4, President Trump gave his third State of the Union address. This year’s address included more political theater than we’ve seen in the annual event before. … Trump’s showmanship was more strategic and consequential than it might appear at first. In researching nondemocratic regimes, I’ve found that when […] Read more »
State of the Union 2020: Dial meter test shows campaign trial run will disappoint Trump
On behalf of the Voter Participation Center and the American Federation of Teachers, Democracy Corps conducted live dial-meter testing of the 2020 State of the Union address among the Rising American Electorate, white working-class women and men, and white college women. CONT. Democracy Corps Read more »