Month: February 2016

The Conservative Movement Collapsed Before Trump

Back in August 2014, I wrote a piece called Why Presidential Horserace Pieces are Boring. It was a response to an article that Al Hunt had just published in Bloomberg News that took a (very) early look at the state of the...

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Casual Observation

Somewhere in my archives, I say that the neoconservatives will come back to the Democratic Party they left in the early seventies if Rand Paul wins the Republican nomination. Turns out, that’s true about Donald Trump,...

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Amy Klobuchar for the Supreme Court

After the 2012 elections, the U.S. Senate reached a milestone. For the first time in our nation’s history, there were 20 female senators. The occasion spurred a brief moment of hope that the Senate might not suffer as much...

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How Do You Feel About Trump as Replican Nominee?

A friend recently asked me if I prefer Trump to the other Republicans in the field. My response was that this was like asking if I prefer rat poison to the bubonic plague? I know we all agree it would be a disaster to allow any...

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The Ugliest Campaign Ever

“Don’t vote for a Cuban” seems like a pretty straightforward campaign motto for Donald Trump at this point. True, it’s not his campaign that is making these robocalls. Instead, it is a Super PAC...

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