Tag Archives: Donald Trump
The rise of Trump-like right-wing populism a global phenomena
While those on the right like to continue to push a myth of “American exceptionalism,” the reality is that Donald Trump’s elevation to power after capturing 46% of the nation’s popular votes ( yes a minority, but an alarming number for a reactionary of Trump’s stature) follows a pattern of right-wing populism based around re-tribalism […]
Trump playing a long game with voter fraud allegations – it’s a cynical Republican ploy
If you turned on CNN anytime in the last 24 hours, you heard nonstop talk about how crazy Donald Trump was to make unfounded and insulting allegations of massive voter fraud. Trump isn’t simply saying these things to stir the pot and justify his own election, since he lost the popular vote by a wide […]
No Markos, people in Appalachia don’t deserve to die
Markos Moulitsas is founder and publisher of Daily Kos, the largest progressive community blog in the United States. Daily Kos is so large, in fact, it can house Markos’ enormous sense of entitlement which has apparently grown to planetary proportions since the election of Herr Trump. On Monday Markos published a breathtakingly offensive post called, “Be happy […]
Anti-Trump protests in the larger picture
We’ve had several days now of anti-Trump protests across the nation almost entirely in large cities (including Orlando) and college campuses. While frustration with the result of the 2016 Presidential Election is widespread among those of us who care about the general health and welfare of all Americans and the image of this nation abroad, the protests […]
Hey progressives, white folks aren’t demons and matter also
Tuesday night was like Election Day 2004 all over again. The same feeling, the same shock. But this time the takeaway is more stark than it was on the night when George W. Bush was elected properly for the first time by the American people (the history books will say “reelected” but those of us […]
TFS Podcast: White working class voters, 2016 like 2004 and 2000, foreign policy in the US Senate race, will Rick Scott try to influence the result and more
On the latest edition of the TFS Podcast Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer look at the Presidential race and the flight of white working class voters away from the Democrats. The current landscape in Florida is discussed as well. While most in the media use 2008 and 2012 as a frame of reference for how […]
2016: The baby boomers last gasp? We can only hope so
President Obama’s election in 2008 heralded in a new era of political thinking and understanding. Much like Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 solidified the baby boomers’ generation as the ones in power, Obama’s election began the transition toward a younger, perhaps more liberal generation. But the 2016 presidential campaign has been the boomers revenge as […]
Want an insight into Trump’s America? Look at Modi’s India
Donald Trump now famously said a week and a half ago at a rally thrown by Indian-American Republicans that he is a “big fan of Hindu.” While many in the media seized on this remark as humorous proof of Trump’s cultural ignorance, I saw it as something very different. A clear attempt to link with […]
Marco Rubio- Florida’s very own unilateralist, McCarthyite Senator: An “intellectual” Donald Trump
Marco Rubio hitched his wagon to the neoconservative caravan years and years ago. Now Rubio having broken his promise to Republican voters not to seek reelection to the United States Senate stands on the brink of being returned to the Senate. The Democratic Party has become complicit in enabling Rubio’s return to prominence so we here […]
Donald Trump, Cuba, conservatism and the American fifth column
Immoral laws are meant to be broken – at least that’s what those of us with morals believe. Donald Trump’s violation of the US embargo against Cuba wasn’t an act of civil disobedience but one of a man with a disregard for the rule of law. “There is only one course open to someone like […]
The Florida Squeeze 