Category: Election 2016
The Magic Christian
by Lou Dubose | Jul 18, 2016 | Election 2016, The IntervalPhoto Credit: Gage Skidmore For years I’ve been picking Mike Pence when handicapping lean and hungry Republican politicians. Even when he didn’t register in the 2010 CPAC presidential poll, and was ignored by Newt Gingrich as he mentioned the potential presidential candidates who had addressed the conference—Tim Pawlenty (remember Tim Pawlenty?), Mitt Romney, Ron […]
Taking Things Back
by Linda Kinstler | Jul 14, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign PolicyTrump in Scotland in 2012. Photo Credit: Friends of the Earth Scotland/Maverick Photo Agency “You have here, Gentlemen, said the Earl, two of the noblest objects that can entertain the eye, the finest river, and the greatest city in the world,” begins Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher’s 1703 Account of a Conversation, a fictional dialogue […]
Trump Benefits From Alliance With Guttersnipe Press
by Rick Perlstein | Jul 12, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsEdel Rodriguez September 9, 1975: Peter Hannaford, a principal in the public relations firm managing Ronald Reagan’s political career, takes time out from preparing the ex-governor’s bid to challenge President Gerald Ford for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination to write to the editor of a weekly newspaper, proposing his client as a new columnist: […]
Trump’s Chump
by Rick Perlstein | Jul 8, 2016 | Election 2016, Politics, RickipediaPhoto Credit: Gage Skidmore Ah, those craven fiends atop the Republican Party, whoring before power and calling it “unity.” Consider the man Donald Trump used to call “Little Marco,” a “disaster for Florida” who “couldn’t get elected dog catcher.” He might not be qualified to catch dogs, but he sure does a convincing imitation […]
Alt-Right Emboldened
by Hannah Gais | Jun 28, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign Policy, PoliticsImage Credit: European Union 2012 EP/Pietro Naj-Oleari While it’s too soon to tell what effect Brexit will have on the U.S. election in November, it’ll undoubtedly act as a shot in the arm for a resurgent far-right. Trump’s campaign has already energized the once-struggling white nationalist movement. Brexit—living proof that virulently nativist politics can […]
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