How do we excise the cancer that is the Party of Trump?

Ed Kilgore recently explained the Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon. Th key is his third point: 3. Trump is a lot more popular among today’s Republicans than Nixon was among yesterday’s. People remember that Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by a huge landslide, but was forced to resign less … Read more

What if Trump Wins a Second Term?

 

I try hard to value others’ opinions, especially when they are informed. That’s tougher in the digital age, because we are increasingly entrenched in information silos which don’t always provide us unfiltered truths. Still, I’ve tried to moderate my publicly stated positions on President Trump because I’d rather inform than alienate. At this point though, I feel silence is complicity.

A great article in the Atlantic explains some of the potential dangers of a second Trump presidency. The Pulitzer Prize winning author, Paul Starr, writes that,

“the biggest difference between electing Trump in 2016 and re-electing Trump in 2020 would be irreversibility.”

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Multiple House investigations are a necessary predicate to impeachment

I want to borrow an idea from Roderick Kefferpütz at Medium last year. Trumping Trump: A Gulliver Strategy: “What seems to be effective in countering Trump is a “Gulliver strategy” — a convergence of many different smaller actors to contain him, as in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.” This is effectively what the House congressional committees are … Read more

ASU Asst. Prof. Plays Big Role In Elizabeth Warren ‘s $640B Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal

Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren today proposed a major $640B Student Loan Debt Cancellation plan. ASU Assistant Professor Raphaël Charron-Chénier is one of four “leading experts on student loan debt to analyze the proposal and conclude that it would help close the “racial wealth gap.” Charron-Chénier teaches at ASU’s School of Social Transformation, and tells Arizona’s Politics … Read more