by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 23, 2017 | Politics
For six years, the 2010 midterm sweep has looked like the NCGOP’s seminal moment of success. It left them with full control of the legislature for the first time in a century, and gave them a chance to revolutionize state government. But now that thunderous victory is...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 1, 2017 | Politics |
Roy Cooper has released a fiscally conservative budget. The spending targets stay within constraints imposed by Republican tax reductions. It does not seek to recover all that has been cut. To the extent that this budget looks expansive–rather than...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 26, 2017 | Politics |
Lacking any role models but Reagan, conservatives have sought to appropriate John F Kennedy. Bob Rucho notoriously blustered that “JFK could have been the founder and leader of the Tea Party.” One of my Facebook trolls recently echoed him. This is an...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 21, 2017 | Politics |
We need to stop being shocked by Republicans. It’s true that the NCGOP disrupts norms frequently, abruptly, and in unprecedented ways. But this has gone on long enough for the rest of us to respond differently. The GA’s radicalism surprises political...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 19, 2017 | Politics |
One of my new year’s resolutions was not to write about Pat McCrory. After half a decade of disaster, the former Republican governor is gone from Raleigh, and besides, why give him the attention he so dearly covets? But politics unfolds in tapestry-like form,...
