For the last nine years we have been told that people support Trump because they are racist and patriarchal. Social class, we are told, is really just a guise for the racism and misogyny of the uneducated white working classes. […]
Donald Trump
The John Piper controversy is another window into the current state of American evangelicalism
Have you been following the MAGA evangelical attack on John Piper? On the day after the election, the Reformed theologian tweeted: āHaving delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.ā I don’t see the same kind of […]
Matt Karp: Trump voters were Dominican hairstylists, Chinese grandmas, and Navajo teenagers
Princeton historian Matt Karp: The point about the Navajo is interesting. The American Indian vote was small, but it went 65% to 34% in Trump’s favor.
What is going on at MSNBC?
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude shows why it is going to be a long time before the Democratic Party wins over working class people. His argument here–that Kamala Harris lost because she is Black–will play well in the Ivy League faculty […]
The “testosterone podcast election”
“Young men feel unseen by the Democratic Party,” says NYU professor Scott Galloway. It seems like a lot of Americans got sick of all the toxic masculinity language and they pushed back on Election Day. What fascinates me is that […]
Smerconish: The 2024 presidential election was Wildwood vs. Stone Harbor
Excellent analysis here from Michael Smerconish. As longtime readers of this blog know, I am passionate about the Jersey shore and have often offered class-based analysis of “the shore (as we Jerseyans call it) here at the blog. Here is […]
Josh Hawley endorses John Cornyn for Senate majority leader. The MAGA crowd goes nuts.
It is apparently a three way race for Senate majority leader. The candidates are South Dakota’s John Thune, Texas’s John Cornyn, and Florida’s Rick Scott. Scott is the favorite of the MAGA movement. Thune is the closest to former leader […]
Does Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles see the court evangelicals as passengers in the “clown car?”
In case you missed it, president-elect Donald Trump just announced that Susie Wiles will be his chief of staff. Here is CNN: CNN reported earlier Thursday that Wiles was considered the front-runner for the job but had some reservations about […]
Democrats need to “ditch” DEI thinking and “get back to fighting for the poor, the working class, and the middle class”
Writer Rand Richard Cooper asks whether the Democrats have “lost the country.” Here is a taste of his piece at Commonweal: The wealthy, worldly, and highly educated parts of this nation are Democratic, while the struggling, provincial, and undereducated parts […]
Thomas Chatterton Williams: “It wasn’t sexism and racism alone”
Here is a taste of Williams‘s piece at The Atlantic: “What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong“: Yet I fear that far too many elite Democrats will direct their ire and scrutiny outward, and dismiss the returns as the result of […]
Trump is us
Carlos Lozada of The New York Times thinks we should stop pretending that Donald Trump is not who we are. Here is a taste: Trump is very much part of who we are. Nearly 63 million Americans voted for him […]
Liz Cheney as James A. Bayard
I tell my students that the present often shapes our understanding of the past. In a short piece at The Panorama, veteran American historian James Banner Jr. writes about how Liz Cheney’s resistance to Donald Trump and her defense of […]
David Brooks: “As the left veered toward identitarian performance art, Donald Trump jumped into the class war with both feet.”Ā
Check out David Brooks’s New York Times piece, “Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?” A taste: The Democratic Party has one job: to combat inequality. Here was a great chasm of inequality right before their noses and somehow […]
MAGA evangelicals sing “How Great Thou Art” after Trump wins
Here are the lyrics to “How Great Thou Art.” Oh Lord, my GodWhen I, in awesome wonderConsider all the worlds Thy hands have madeI see the stars, I hear the rolling thunderThy power throughout the universe displayed Then sings my […]
Some very early evangelical responses to Trump’s victory
I went to bed around 1am last night. When I awoke, Donald Trump was President-Elect. Let’s see what evangelicals are saying this morning. The responses are trickling-in. We will try to cover them throughout the day. According toĀ The Washington Post, […]
Image of the day
The “woke” Left and the Trump Right are possessed
Over the last couple of days I have been teaching the Salem Witch Trials in my colonial America class. So I naturally gravitated to University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson piece at Liberties titled “The Politics of Possession in America.” […]
Movie clip of the day
Context
Do we really want another four years of Donald Trump?
I understand why people will vote for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Some think Trump will protect their religious liberty and fight for their views in a way that Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush did not. Some […]
Christian college professor: “I’m ashamed to be a Republican”
Byron Curtis is professor emeritus of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In an op-ed today at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he makes a pro-life case for Kamala Harris. A taste: Iām a 46-year member of the Republican […]