Politics in America “When Republicans have total control of the government, they will bear the responsibility for its failures” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2017 Throughout the Obama administration, the G.O.P. has had the mind-set of an opposition party,...
Politics in America “The state of our politics also explains why none of the revelations, outrages or gaffes seemed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2017 When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of...
Politics in America “By denying known and provable facts…or by rejecting facts that are not publicly known…, Mr. Trump exercises his ever-growing power over the public sphere” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2017 If there is one trait that Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of...
Anti-Semitism “The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2017 The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters. Not to the deplorables,...
Politics in America “…the top issue that drove Trump’s voters to the polls was…was immigration, an issue on which we’ve abandoned serious debate…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2016 The same white working-class voters who re-elected Obama four years ago did not cast...
Politics in America Bannon “doesn’t hate Jews; he hates ‘foreigners’, liberals, secularists and elites” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 December 2016 Populist bias is a lot like the phrase “Make America Great Again.” Only a...
Jewish Community, Politics in America “This assessment…bespeaks an overly self-absorbed Jewish community and continues the left’s self-defeating tone-deafness when it comes to Trump and his associates” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2016 Among American Jewish progressives, the consensus is that Bannon, Donald Trump’s “strategic adviser,” is...
Politics in America “By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage to find scraps of anti-Semitism, Jewish pundits are misunderstanding and misrepresenting Trumpism itself” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 December 2016 By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage...
Gender, Politics in America “If white women of all education levels were more susceptible to Mr. Trump’s nostalgic, macho transactionalism, perhaps it was because they are adjacent to the men who have traditionally enjoyed the most resources and power in society, and who either believe they have lost it or fear losing it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 December 2016 People without a college degree, from whom the president-elect saw strong support, were in...
Politics in America “Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 December 2016 Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism,...