Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Trump is anything but strategic. If he wins it won’t be because of any alleged brilliance. It will be a reflection of the deep sickness imbued in our culture. One would hope that four years of racist, malevolent and incompetent leadership (or lack thereof) would bring to the fore an array of opposition that would take down Trump and the party he rolled in on. That’s what I pray for. But clearly there’s a significant percentage who find his messages and contempt for egalitarian values and basic decency appealing.
This is more “pwn teh libs”. And sexism. Which won’t help win back educated suburban women, who should be rightly appalled that he is targeting two successful women politicians.
I’ve been voting by mail in Oregon for twenty years. It seems to me so obviously the right way to manage voting that I am always surprised to hear that the old polling place approach is still the main way to vote in many places. I suppose for some people it is a tradition they like, and that seems fine to me, but I can’t imagine why any state would make it required. Vote by mail is easier for the government to manage, and easier for the voters to do – a classic win-win approach to voting. I’m not sure… Read more »
Trump is anything but strategic. If he wins it won’t be because of any alleged brilliance. It will be a reflection of the deep sickness imbued in our culture. One would hope that four years of racist, malevolent and incompetent leadership (or lack thereof) would bring to the fore an array of opposition that would take down Trump and the party he rolled in on. That’s what I pray for. But clearly there’s a significant percentage who find his messages and contempt for egalitarian values and basic decency appealing.
This is more “pwn teh libs”. And sexism. Which won’t help win back educated suburban women, who should be rightly appalled that he is targeting two successful women politicians.
I’ve been voting by mail in Oregon for twenty years. It seems to me so obviously the right way to manage voting that I am always surprised to hear that the old polling place approach is still the main way to vote in many places. I suppose for some people it is a tradition they like, and that seems fine to me, but I can’t imagine why any state would make it required. Vote by mail is easier for the government to manage, and easier for the voters to do – a classic win-win approach to voting. I’m not sure… Read more »
Your headline is waaaay too long. It should read:
Trump is an Idiot