It’s the base, stupid! – the know-nothing swamp drives toxic politics
We can’t have a know-nothing president without an ongoing know-nothing base. The "other swamp" is a multitude willing to forego life-improving deliverables for endless, smoke and mirror wedge distractions.
The dangerous myth of deregulation
Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.
Is America truly exceptional, can it be called the wealthiest country in the world?
So we can say that this country is exceptional and is the wealthiest one in the world but that doesn’t make it so.
As epic losses mount, Trump’s one ‘win’ spurs the ultimate boomerang
The good news/bad news is that Trump is no better at criminality (or hiding secrets or deflecting retribution) than he is at being a mock, TV-celebrity president.
A Perfect Storm has erupted over Washington. Will Trump be forced to resign?
“Hasta la vista, baby.”
Don’t impeach Trump. Annul his presidency
My betting is Trump remains president at least through 2020 – absent compelling and indisputable evidence he rigged the 2016 election.
Democrats should finally put Superdelegates behind them
A historic showdown is again looming in Chicago.
Climate change, extreme weather, destructive lifestyles
If we continue in the selfish, greedy, divisive ways of the past, the weather patterns will become more extreme and unpredictable, the air and waterways will become more toxic, loss of life will increase and the associated environmental ills will deepen.
Addressing redeemable Trumpers: Offsetting the Blarney, upping midterm pressure
The electoral field, thanks to history’s most vulnerable president, is wide open – handing the left a great opportunity for a stunning harvest.
Pandering to deficit hawks is a losing strategy
The silencing of dissenting voices could be called many things, but “democratic” isn’t one of them.