Tag: Election 2016

If Trump was to drop out of the race it would have to be done voluntarily, as there is no system in place that Republicans could use to force him out of the nomination.

An Ode to Ike and Adlai

What will happen if Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, or doesn’t even make it to election day?

The Bernie movement created a hopeful, formidable and growing populist political channel that is both insistently democratic and independent of the Democratic Party.

The DNC has to turn itself – and the Democratic Party – into a grass-roots membership organization, with local and state chapters that play a meaningful role in selecting and supporting candidates.

“I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?”

For a guy who brags interminably about his self-evident genius — getting rich by building colossal, ritzy stuff— Trump’s historic significance is getting fully established: he is a uniter of odd bedfellows (against his excesses) and already the demolisher-in-chief, whether of his party or campaign.

Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He is the loudest and clearest warning shot across the bow of the current American political-economic system.

Trump appears to be ignorant of the ongoing situation in the Ukraine and Russia's involvement in the international conflict.

“My primary mission as President will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States.”