If you have any doubt that the President-Elect of the United States is a genuine sociopath, you should check out Kevin Drum’s fine exposition and dissection of Donald Trump’s latest Twitter frenzy. After showing how Trump had evidently spent his ...
Read MoreIt is widely agreed that Trump’s electoral college victory drew critically on a revolt of the white working class (generally defined as whites lacking a college education), especially in rural America. Working class whites evidently have come to the conclusion ...
Read MoreThanks to the readers who alerted me to the glitch in the link in my last post. It’s fixed.
Read MoreJust a quick post today, to pass on an important reading recommendation. Vox’s Matt Yglesias has sketched out a grim view of the prospects for Trump‘s America, focusing not so much on policy as on the threats that a Trump ...
Read MoreHow did Donald Trump get elected president of the United States? The simplest obvious answer to that question is: the electoral college. It needs to be emphasized over and over again that Trump didn’t win even a plurality of the ...
Read MoreIn my last post I promised to look for silver linings in this catastrophic election. I’ll try to make good on that promise, but I do want to emphasize that I am grasping at straws (and, I guess, mixing metaphors). ...
Read MoreIt is hard to believe. The White House will soon be home to a hatemongering, chronically mendacious caricature of a textbook narcissist, a con man who is totally unfit for the presidency. I’m glad that I don’t have any small ...
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