“…a basket is just the kind of zany, cheerful container that makes light of the deplorables while still putting them in their place”
In the United States, Hillary Clinton calls half the supporters of Donald Trump “a...
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“Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at a time of bitter distrust in institutions…”
Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at...
“In the eighties, the decade of conservative ascendancy, the Clintons’ brand of politics seemed to provide the ingredients of a Democratic revival”
Bill and Hillary moved to Arkansas in 1974, and got married the following year....
“The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive”
If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
“…Americans today, especially on the Trump right and the Sanders left, won’t give politicians anything close to that kind of trust”
Clinton was saying in private what she can’t or won’t in public. The e-mails...
“A startling aspect of the rage that greeted Bill Clinton was how much of it was aimed at the women he entrusted — or tried to entrust — with power”
The 1990s produced a generation of men who felt (and still feel) left behind...
“For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught”
For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...
“This election has told us that many Americans feel their way of life is disappearing”
Those voters with favorable views of Trump are not, by and large, the poorest...
“What has happened in America should not be seen as a victory for hatefulness over decency. It is more accurately understood as a repudiation of the American power structure”
What has happened in America should not be seen as a victory for hatefulness...
“Hillary Clinton’s defeat is all the more remarkable in that her campaign vastly outspent the Trump campaign on television and radio advertisements, and get-out-the-vote efforts”
Hillary Clinton’s defeat is all the more remarkable in that her campaign vastly outspent...