by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 5, 2021 | Politics
Political rhetoric necessarily boils history down to the basics. President Biden, not usually a brilliant orator, captured the truth when he stated in his inaugural that American history is characterized, in part, by a push and pull between the forces of democratic...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 1, 2021 | Politics |
Observers on both sides of North Carolina’s political aisle could surely identify with the photo Nikole Hannah-Jones tweeted of herself enjoying a glass of bourbon. Progressives, to celebrate alongside her; conservatives, to drown their sorrows. For the first...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 29, 2021 | Politics |
Reading the comments on Thomas’s Sunday post put me in a bad mood. It is hardly a secret that North Carolina contains a significant population of fringe right-wingers, which explains the rich history of shameful demagoguery in the state, but seeing so many of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 28, 2021 | Politics
If you’ve ever wondered why Pat McCrory is not taken seriously by the North Carolina political establishment, consider his relationship to the sports industry. It is long and tortured. As mayor of Charlotte, he bulldozed fiscal conservatives to lavish a sum of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 24, 2021 | Politics |
The charge of liberal elitism has undoubtedly been exaggerated and weaponized to exploit natural human insecurities for a cause that serves working people poorly. On an individual level, many upscale progressives hold no enmity toward downscale cultural conservatives...
