National fracture
Yet the choice is not always between violent fracture – as in an earthquake – or oppressive rule by one set of institutions. If we can contemplate a breakup without more violence than we have now, we ought to think on it.
Tag Archives: Republican party
Strategies to oppose Trump
These are not reasons tied to a political party, or even to an association. They are not particularly political reasons at all. They are reasons tied to personal frustration, disorientation, and helplessness.
At its low point, Democratic party can redeem itself
Meantime, you will see Democrats struggle to win electoral support for at least another ten years, if they do not engage in reasonable efforts to correct the bizarre series of mistakes they made when they adopted an MIT professor’s recommendations to reform the whole country’s health care system according to a vision sprouted from the People’s Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Republican politicians to reporters: “Please stop bugging me!”
Whether Ryan withdraws his endorsement, or stands by it, or qualifies it, what do you think reporters will ask him then? I can tell you, no matter what Ryan does, they won’t stop bothering him. Moreover, their questions won’t elicit Ryan’s thoughts about the Republican party’s future, because, in truth, reporters aren’t interested in that.
A dozen reasons: which party do you like better?
Conventions are less than two months away! It’s time for the party faithful to get their talking points and party …
Donald Trump and the Republican brand
People say Donald Trump ruins the Republican brand. Tell me if you think Donald Trump cares about the Republican brand. More …
The Donald take the hindmost
Donald Trump is great. A sixteenth-century proverb said, “Every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost.” It meant …
Day after
First Pelosi, now Reid. President Obama has made a specialty of trashing Republican leaders in public. One outcome of this …
Tea Party, immigration, small business and small government
Here’s an excellent analysis of the Tea Party from William Galston, a liberal thinker who writes for the Wall Street …
“The whole country is a prison camp”, Immigration and the Tea Party
I ran across a video about a strip search and police brutality today that was so disturbing, I couldn’t post …
The Jeffersonian 