The Cure, Worse Than The Disease

Bernie Sanders demonstrated a… to call it shocking would imply that we have actual expectations of sense and logic out of him… bit of illogic (not to mention tone-deafness) in last night’s Democratic debates when he declared that: climate change is...

The Seven Percent Delusion

Lets roll the clock back a few months, say, to May. Libertarianism seemed to be gaining traction with many in the GOP, Rand Paul, running a campaign as a libertarian-ish Republican candidate for the GOP nomination for President, was polling well, and the Republicans...

Ugly Nativism and Crass Tribalism

… Or, the sordid one-two punch behind Trump’s popularity Donald Trump burst onto the GOP presidential primary scene with an in-your-face, plain-talking and purportedly anti-establishment/outsider message. He immediately surged into first place, holding a...

All That Matters Is Winning

Thus goes the belief that a subset of Republican voters hold. They want the party to nominate and the voters to support the candidates who stand the best chance of beating their Democratic counterparts. They believe that majority control of Congress and control of the...

Trump This

Donald Trump, he of the endlessly mockable combover and ad-nauseum-repeated tag line “You’re Fired!,” has confounded pundits left and right (and spawned numerous conspiracy theories) by leading the pack of GOP presidential candidates in the polls....