One more reason for the Democrats to go vote
Republicans heading back into special session this week could be offering Democrats a potent weapon going into the midterm elections. They want to either redistrict judicial races or put a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would allow the legislature to...
Tax the rich
Americans are not happy with the tax bill that Congress just passed. They believe it’s a give-away to the rich, explodes the deficit and adds to the national debt. They’re right. Unlike the early 1980s, the public wasn’t clamoring for a tax cut. Only the wealthy and...
Two predictions
I said that I wouldn’t make any New Years predictions, but I’m going to make a couple. First, Trump will not be impeached and won’t be removed by the 25th Amendment—at least not as long as Republicans control Congress. Second, he’s not going to change. So just buckle...
Normalizing Trump
Establishment Republicans are apparently coming around to normalizing Trump. They got their tax cuts, their Supreme Court justice, fewer regulations and a more aggressive foreign policy. In the process, they’ve lost the meaning of conservative. Instead of respecting...
A brief look at 2018
Happy New Year. I’m not going to make any predictions for 2018. After the election of Donald Trump, I no longer trust my predictive abilities. Instead, I’ll try to point out some things that will be happening over the next 12 months. First, at the national level,...
2017, a year to remember
As a country, we won’t quickly forget 2017. It brought us President Donald Trump, a carnival barker and grifter who lies habitually and seeks approval from dictators. It brought the rise of a renewed women’s movement that brought down some of the country’s most...
Best of 2017
Below are links to what I believe were the best of my blog posts from 2017. They're not in any particular order. They're just posts I wrote that I think held up well or that I enjoyed writing. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Continental Divide The stories they...
Trump’s impact on women and white evangelicals
We’ve not had a year like 2017 in a long time. Donald Trump has done what he promised—upended the political system. Governing by tweets with little regard for the truth, Trump is constantly on the attack against enemies real and imagined. His base loves it, his...
The fight on the right
The most interesting feud playing out in conservative politics right now is not the anti-Trump conservatives verses the pro-Trump forces; it’s the split that’s forming among the Never Trump Republicans. The fissure broke open last week between center-right journalists...
As North Carolina goes, so goes the nation
As I’ve said before, North Carolina Republicans were Trumpists before Trump. They were willing to trash the state’s reputation as a forward thinking, welcoming state in order to pass tax cuts that disproportionally benefited the wealthy while dramatically cutting the...
