Ever since Donald Trump glided down the escalator to announce that he is running for president, I have been haunted by the words of former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal who warned his fellow Republicans that they “must stop being the stupid party” in January 2013. Republicans not only failed to heed his warning but proudly … Read more
Donald Trump is a textbook example for psychological projection, i.e., unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits he doesn’t like about himself and attributing them to someone else. Although in Trump’s case, I am not so sure that it is unconscious. Trump has never developed past the childhood schoolyard taunt of “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever … Read more
The 2020 Republican National Convention has turned into a dumpster fire with cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina and then Florida. Just when you thought that things couldn’t possibly get any weirder … The Associated Press reports that GOP Renomination of Trump to be held in private: The vote to renominate President … Read more
Arizona was a test case for Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in 2020: use the slow counting of mail-in ballots to undermine and to contest the legitimacy of the election. In 2018, 80% of Arizona voters received their ballots in the mail and voted early by mail. On election night, the first numbers you see reported … Read more