Tag: Donald Trump supporters

• It looks like the Republican Party looks might Bull Moose itself again

  And so it has begun. The conventional wisdom was that following Donald Trump’s defeat November 9 along with the likely loss of the Senate and possibly the House, the Republican Party would thrash and moan as they tried and likely failed to pick up the pieces and become an effective political party again. If you…

  Mark

  October 11, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Bull Moose Party, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, Election 1912, Election 2016, Election 2020, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Progressive Party, Republican Party, Tea Party, Teddy Roosevelt, Tip O’Neill, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

• Defusing the angry Trumpsters

  Sorry I haven’t been posting lately. For being sort of retired, my life has been plenty busy lately. Mainly I’ve been hosting family, who seem to have finally accepted that we have moved to Western Massachusetts and suddenly want to visit. My brother arrived for a weeklong visit. In the middle of it my sister…

  Mark

  August 11, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Barack Obama, Civil War, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, Election 2016, Eric Hoffer, Hillary Clinton, Insurrection, Japanese, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Scott Adams, Tea Party

• See no evil

  To some extent, all political parties suffer tone deafness. Democrats are not immune. Bernie Sanders supporters are a little tone deaf to the reality that he will not be the party’s nominee. Uber-liberals were tone deaf in 2008 when John Edwards was running for president, excusing as unfounded pretty damning testimony that he was a…

  Mark

  May 15, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Bill Clinton, Cognitive dissonance, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, Election 2016, Reince Priebus, Republicans