“…despite the country’s fondness for aspirational rhetoric, our illiberal traditions have serious staying power, too”
As a point of strategy, it may behoove Democrats to embrace patriotic or nationalistic...
Tag Archives: Presidential Election 2016
“Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel”
In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
“With Mr. Trump’s victory and with Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress, unions are expecting a series of stinging blows”
With Mr. Trump’s victory and with Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress, unions...
“Implying that American public opinion can be ‘tainted’ by exposure to foreign influence contains disturbing — and distinctly archaic — undertones of a call to national purity”
…if the American media and a large part of the American public believe that...
“If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them”
One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant...
“The state of our politics also explains why none of the revelations, outrages or gaffes seemed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity”
When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of...
“…the top issue that drove Trump’s voters to the polls was…was immigration, an issue on which we’ve abandoned serious debate…”
The same white working-class voters who re-elected Obama four years ago did not cast...
“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”
People without a college degree, from whom the president-elect saw strong support, were in...
“Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism…”
Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism,...
“…for all his thunderous talk before Election Day about ‘draining the swamp’ of Washington, the water level looks fine, the mosquitoes seem unworried and the gators remain plentiful and well-fed”
Trump styled himself as a populist during his flamboyantly provocative campaign, claiming to hear,...