Tag: Democrats
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Republicans may be surprised by the 2022 midterms
There’s a problem when you are ruled by a minority. Unless they are careful in the exercise of their power, you can expect a boomerang effect. We saw it, or at least a “boom”, in Tuesday’s primary election in Kansas. It included a ballot question on whether to amend the state’s constitution to prohibit abortions.…
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Dodging covid-19
I’m now among a minority of Americans because I haven’t contracted covid-19. A recent Monmouth poll found that 52 percent of Americans polled say they have come down with covid-19. I’ve never tested positive for covid-19 either. I suppose it’s possible I’ve been exposed but before getting on a cruise December 1st I passed a…
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America’s Revolutionary War is still with us
I’ve finished reading two books on the Revolutionary War. To me the most revolutionary insight from reading them is that 250 years ago Americans were fighting the same stuff we are today. And no, I don’t mean the British. I mean us. The first book, The War for American Independence by Samuel B. Griffith II,…
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There are plenty of anti-vaxxers on the left
It’s tempting to put all the blame for the pandemic on Republicans. At least when it comes to anti-vaxxers, blame can be allocated on many Democrats as well. This is because there are plenty of “all natural” Democrats out there. While I hate to generalize, you will find a lot of them shopping at Whole…
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Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have done something amazing
The American Rescue Plan, expected to be signed into law shortly is, as Joe Biden would say, “a BFD”. President Joe is of course too polite to articulate what the acronym means. What it means to me is that government is working for the people again. Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress are finally…
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The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary have been demoted
The 2020 Democratic nomination process pulled a surprise this year. It showed that doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire probably doesn’t matter anymore. Doing well in Iowa has been a great predictor of eventually winning the Democratic Party nomination. With the exception of 1992 when their incumbent senator was in the primary, banking Iowa…
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Bernie Sanders is not nearly as socialist as some past presidents
Campaign season involves a lot of predictable hand wringing. And so the hang wringing has started in earnest this year as Democrats decide who will be their presidential candidate. Democratic Party leaders are starting to discover, as Republican Party leaders did in 2016, that the base is likely to reject anyone from their list of…
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Democrats in Congress are proving pathetic
The only thing sadder than Donald Trump and the current state of the Republican Party and our democracy may be the current state of the Democratic Party. I’m reading Hillary Clinton’s book What Happened. It’s not particularly interesting or insightful, but I felt a duty to read it since it was a Christmas present from…
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No bottom for the Republican Party
It looks like I have been giving Republicans too much credit. I assumed there was some core group of Republicans who could agree, “This time Trump has gone too far” and bring him down. Apparently, there is no bottom for the Republican Party. That’s because I assumed that there were some sane Republicans out there.…
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Liz Warren for president
I recently wrote a post saying Democrats should concentrate on bigger issues like fixing gerrymandering rather than get swept up in the personalities over the many, many candidates running for the party’s presidential nomination. That’s not to say that the field so far is not full of interesting and exciting candidates. Yes, any of them…
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