Elitism and Politics*
Back in the giddy days of the early ‘90s, the Clintons were in the White House and the spirit of reform was heady in the air. I worked for a big labor union in Washington and convinced my boss to let...
View ArticleLike Hammering Nails into Stone
Did anything in the last debate change your mind? Of course not. A few minds will be persuaded, like this person’s, that Trump finally “seems to be insane. I no longer believe it is possible that he...
View ArticleWhite People
Literally dozens of nicknames have been proposed for Trump—including “Cheeto-in-Chief” and “The Human Tanning Bed Warning Label”—many having to do with skin color. People look at Trump and see someone...
View ArticleOur Very Stable Genius
He certainly outdid himself with that comment about “shithole countries,” didn’t he? Condemnations have been pouring in from around the world—outrage about the chauvinism, the language, the racism, the...
View ArticleIt Don’t Mattah
Today we will talk about some of the issues that aggravate you greatly but don’t matter at all to the Trump base. This is an old phenomenon that liberals have sometimes experienced before. After...
View ArticleDumb and Dumber
Here’s Tim Egan in Friday’s NYTimes, saying something I’ve felt for a long time and echoing the sentiments of H.L. Mencken almost a hundred years ago. It used to be bad form to demean the intelligence...
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