Okay, some things really are bad for Democrats after Trump’s rise to the presidency, such as Supreme Court nominations and fear of the unknown. But Democrats looking for a tiny shred of positive news – and I’m one of them – can take a small amount of comfort from this: Trump may not be as bad as we […]
Read More →Seven hours ago as I write, a gunman killed 50 people in Orlando about 15 miles from my home. I was not there, and thanks to Facebook and texting, my kids and their friends are okay – not that the names of the dead have been released. The nation will focus on radical Islamic terrorism. […]
Read More →People who hate Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders (or both) can take a small bit of comfort in the story behind their ascension: Politics in America is changing. At its core, politics is the art of manipulation. An unruly crowd of rightwing or leftwing voters needs corralled into voting booths and enticed to flip the […]
Read More →Maybe it’s not all middle-class discontent, a desire for outside-the-beltway candidates or angry Americans. Maybe the core reason Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump enjoy a surprising number of followers is something far simpler: Maybe it’s television shows. In 1939, Jimmy Stewart played a U.S. Senator in a movie, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and Americans […]
Read More →A laser focus on bigots misses the point. Hate drives most of today’s problems. We spend too much time talking as if hate and bigotry are the same thing. Imagine two people: Ida Mae Everton, who just happens to have the first name of my great-grandmother, loves all God’s creatures. She has cats and dogs, […]
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