Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods prominently backed Kyrsten Sinema, but he says she now needs to support getting rid of the filibuster. Huffington Post reports, Major Kyrsten Sinema Supporter Says Abolish Filibuster Or Get Out Of The Senate: Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who prominently backed Kyrsten Sinema’s election to the Senate, is … Read more
First, a history lesson. History has made British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the poster boy for appeasement of the enemies of democracy ever since the Munich Pact in 1938. Chamberlain thought he could stop what Winston Churchill correctly saw as the coming war in Europe from Nazi Germany by appeasing Adolph Hitler. Neville Chamberlain: A … Read more
Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times writes, Sinema and Manchin’s Nihilistic Bipartisanship: We are in the eye of the storm of American democratic collapse. There is, outwardly, a feeling of calm. The Biden administration is competent and placid. The coronavirus emergency is receding nationally, if not internationally. Donald Trump, once the most powerful man … Read more
In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a speech on behalf of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the right-wing extremist nominee of the Republican Party, known as the “a time for choosing” speech. Barry Goldwater went on to lose the election by one of the largest margins in history. I hate to borrow a turn of phrase from … Read more
Americans like to believe that we live in a democracy, but in fact the Constitution created anti-democratic constraints on what the wealthy elites of the time feared was the unruly mob. (They were not entirely wrong; there was a series of rebellions and insurrections in the early Republic). But now that we are the world’s … Read more