Politics in America “Behind Trump’s success is an unerring instinct for harnessing anger, resentment, and fear” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 February 2016 Behind Trump’s success is an unerring instinct for harnessing anger, resentment, and fear. His...
Politics in America “America’s most skilled political entertainer is putting on the greatest show we’ve ever seen” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2016 It is undeniably enjoyable to watch Trump. He’s red-faced, discursive, funny, angry, strange, unpredictable,...
Politics in America “What a dangerous distraction the Iowa spectacle has been from the dysfunction and unfairness of democracy as we now know it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 February 2016 If we’re lucky, the day will come when we look back at the Iowa...
America, Politics in America “…Prohibition was not a farce but a tragedy, and one that has made a substantial contribution to our current miseries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2016 The Prohibition Party, as it was called, never became a major electoral force. But...
Politics in America “The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to do the job in the gaudiest self-assurance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 December 2015 The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to...
Politics in America “…it’s unsettling to encounter a prospective leader whose persona is so conspicuous and well defined and yet whose core is so obtuse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 November 2015 Trump might be the single most self-involved yet least introspective person I have ever...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
Politics in America “The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous dilemma for a lot of other people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous...
Politics in America “…the core of Trump’s phenomenon is his celebrity itself, which, in today’s America, is in fact as populist as it gets” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2015 …while populism is often associated with grass-roots movements, Trump’s brand of it flows not...
America, Politics in America “The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2015 The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...