Karl Rove’s Frankenstein
One day we might decide to confront the racism at the core of our American experiment. Until then, it remains a lever to be pulled by ambitious cynics, a lingering threat to our health and survival.
Category: Republican Party
Republicans Will Protect Trump to the End
Disruption threatened by the electoral success of a slate of new left politicians is our only remaining shot at restoring small-d democratic accountability through peaceful means.
The Republican Gerrymander Might Lose It’s Devil’s Bargain
So what exactly is the devil’s bargain then? It is this: gerrymandering allows you to win close elections, but makes you more susceptible to being washed out in wave elections.
A rational Republican resistance is starting to emerge
Republicans have moved so far off the established political spectrum that primary challenges from the center have begun to look promising.
SCOTTeVEST, Fox News, and a Dunning-Kruger nightmare
A shrinking world and the exponential explosion of computing power has sparked a biological arms race with no certain outcome, unleashing a Dunning-Kruger nightmare.
Writing about public policy seems pointless
We cannot return to stability until the Republican Party has been thoroughly destroyed, hopefully through electoral failure, but by any means necessary.
Ed Gillespie and the ‘good Nazi’ dilemma
There will be no return to normal, healthy politics until the Republican Party has been thoroughly defeated, and either reformed or replaced. Such a realignment is hard to imagine in the near term, and almost impossible to achieve without some very worrying political disruptions. In the meantime, “nice” political figures like Gillespie are on the wrong side of a nasty moral divide.
Gradually, then suddenly
Our window for containing the rage stirred up by this administration is closing and it is impossible to predict who will end up in its crosshairs.
Things are about to get worse
The most dangerous threat to peace and stability in the world is the president of the United States. That threat is about to reach a critical stage.
A big country with tiny democracy
New political parties will not emerge from Washington. They will begin in our neighborhoods or they won’t begin at all.