Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore When a person shows you who they really are you had best pay heed, especially if that person is seeking to gain power. Several weeks ago the Daily Mail reported that at a rally in Ohio, Donald Trump “appeared to compare immigrants to venomous snakes”—by reciting a sixties soul song that […]

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  Photo Credit: Joe Catron Donald Trump’s political ascendance has been a nightmare for the Republican Party, but a gift for journalists, political analysts, and opinion writers. “Trumpmania” has been dissected in many ways. Hundreds if not thousands of “think pieces” and other types of work have been published on the violence at Trump rallies, […]

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  Image source: Reagan Presidential Library One day before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963, Richard Hofstadter was in London, delivering a lecture that a year later would appear in Harper’s as “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” At 47 years of age, Hofstadter was an American brand. He held an […]

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  Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore Somewhere in the annals of the world’s folklore—perhaps somewhere in the collected Brothers Grimm—there must exist some allegorical tale that lays bare the folly of what happened yesterday in Salt Lake City. There, Mitt Romney inhabited the voice of probity, caution, trustworthiness, and integrity in order to warn the unwashed […]

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  Image Credit: Edel Rodriguez  The grumpy old man with the disheveled hair has revealed himself a veritable political juggernaut. In Iowa, Bernie Sanders fought Hillary Clinton to a near tie. In New Hampshire, he rolled to a 22-point victory. It is an extraordinary vindication of an argument liberal Democrats like me have been making since the 1980s, when […]

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