Politics in America “Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2016 Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times. Even John McCain, who once dismissed him...
Politics in America “In the context of a divided electorate, highly polarized parties and non-stop combat in an unending string of elections to fill national and state offices, presidential contests are less likely to usher in dominance than to invite opposition” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 April 2016 The White House is a major prize, but in our system of checks and...
Politics in America “The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and middle-class Americans is not the populism of the People’s Party but rather that of the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2016 The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and...
Politics in America “Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best hope…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2016 Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best...
Journalism, News Media, Politics in America, Television “Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2016 Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...
Politics in America “…unrealistic as Trump’s ideas are, they differ from those of his chief opponents only in degree, not in kind” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2016 In 1980, the third-party Presidential candidate John Anderson succinctly summed up Ronald Reagan’s promise...
Politics in America “…many of the Republicans in a faux swoon for the far-right loon don’t really want to see him fly all the way to the White House — or, for that matter, to the nomination” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2016 …many of the Republicans in a faux swoon for the far-right loon don’t really...
Politics in America “Both camps underestimate the other. The traditional advocates often regard the human rights advocates as sellouts, and the human rights supporters often regard the traditional advocates as intellectual lightweights” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2016 Let’s start with the human rights/peace camp, which often pays short shrift to advocating...
Politics in America “…how has Donald Trump, the coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron, emerged as a populist hero?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2016 …how has Donald Trump, the coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron, emerged...
Politics in America “There was a time when an election to succeed a two-term president was not about everything” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 March 2016 Who will prevail in 2016 — the vision of change that Obama presented and,...