Yes, you read that title correctly. Here is Alex Thompson and Daniel Payne at the Politico West Wing playbook: The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on […]
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“84% of Republicans believe history should celebrate our nation’s past, while 70% of Democrats think history should question it”
Our culture war is rooted in competing perceptions of the American past. Here is Peter Burkholder of Fairleigh Dickinson University and Dana Schaffer of the American Historical Association at Time: Our recent national survey of people’s understandings and uses of […]
James Carville is glad that Joe Biden is not into “faculty lounge” politics
The political consultant best known for running Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns comes from an era when Democratic politics was all about making appeals to the things working and middle-class people had in common. He has reacted strongly to the identity […]
Pro-life Democrats march in defense of the Hyde Amendment
I don’t see many news outlets covering this story. Here is Ryan Foley at The Christian Post: A group of pro-life Democrats and other pro-life activists gathered on Capitol Hill and across the country Saturday to oppose the exclusion of […]
What happens when you watch “The West Wing” during the Biden era?
Damon Linker explains in his column at The Week: The West Wing is what you get if you take the outlook of the most committed Democrats during the two terms of Bill Clinton’s presidency, add an overlay of rhetorical grandiosity derived […]
Michelle Cottle offers a “dictionary for these polarized times”
The premise of Cottle’s piece at The New York Times is that Democrats and Republicans no longer speak the same language. Take, for example, the phrase “fake news”: Pre-Trump, most folks thought of fake news as media sources that trafficked […]
Do Democrats have an immigration policy?
It doesn’t look like it. Here is a taste of David Leonhardt’s piece at The New York Times: . . . In recent years, however, a growing number of immigration advocates and progressive Democrats have become dissatisfied with this combination. […]
How did Democrats lose “Joe Bailey”
Over at Dissent, historian Gabriel Winant reviews two new books on working people. The first is David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. The other is Jacob S. Hacker […]
62% of Americans say that we need a third political party
Here is Gallup: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ desire for a third party has ticked up since last fall and now sits at a high in Gallup’s trend. Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults say the “parties do such a poor job […]
Kazin: The Democratic Party must embrace a “new politics of economic justice”
How does the Democratic Party move forward in the post-Trump era? Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin, who is writing a new history of the Democrats, offers some thoughts in a recent piece at The New Republic. Here is a taste: […]
The history of the phrase “Jesus is Not a Republican or a Democrat”
Perhaps you have seen this phrase on a bumper sticker. I occasionally see it on cars in the parking lot at Messiah University. Most of them say “JESUS (or GOD) IS NOT A REPUBLICAN” and then in smaller letters, “or […]
5 things that are not socialism
Tyler Huckabee lists them at Relevant magazine: Believing in critical race theory Advocating for healthcare reform Believing women can lead in the church Advocating for refugees Voting for Democrats Click here to see how he unpacks these five points.
Will a third political party emerge?
Some are suggesting that the Republican Party could split into principled conservatives and Trump populists. The next four years will also reveal the depth of the divisions within the Democratic Party. How hard will the progressives in the party challenge […]
Antifa! Antifa! The court evangelicals prepare for spiritual warfare against Biden and the Democrats
We are learning more and more about the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. They were Trump-supporters, extreme Christian nationalists, QAnon believers, militia groups, and other assorted thugs. Mo Brooks, a Republican representative from Alabama, still believes that […]
The coming war in the Democratic Party
We all saw this coming. It’s the centrists versus the progressives. Conor Lamb versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Get ready for the war. Here is a taste of John F. Harris piece at Politico titled “What Planet is AOC On?“ It is […]
If Biden holds on in Georgia he will be the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992
Biden took the lead in Georgia early this morning. Right now, at 7:52am on November 6, 2020, Biden has 2,400,580 votes. He has already won more votes in Georgia than any other candidate in American history. If Biden ends-up winning […]
Why is Biden getting most of the mail-in votes?
Several people are asking me why the mail-in ballots are trending heavily toward Joe Biden. I am a teacher, so I thought I would do a quick post for the record: First, Democrats tend to believe doctors and scientists (like […]
Why is the GOP rushing the Barrett confirmation? The answer is simple: the Democratic coalition is growing
Another great piece at The Atlantic by Ron Brownstein. I find him to be the most astute political analyst working today. Here is a taste: Nothing better explains the Republican rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court […]
Why don’t white evangelicals vote for Democrats?
Historian Daniel Williams, in a thought-provoking piece at The Anxious Bench, asks: Why have white evangelicals been so antipathetic to Democrats, even before their disagreements with Democrats over abortion or LGBT issues emerged? And can anything ever convince them to […]
Another Monday in Trumpland
Monday, August 31, 2022, in Trumpland began with news that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican and Trump supporter, doctored a video to make it appear that Biden wants to defund the police. I am expecting Scalise’s GOP […]