by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 25, 2020 | • Politics
Fox Geezer Syndrome | The American Conservative A reader sent me an e-mail about the Rush Limbaugh caller who, near tears, said he was prepared to die for Donald Trump. I wrote about the guy here, and offered a reader’s thesis that the caller was a man who had...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 14, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Washington, DC, rally brings together Trump voters and far-right leaders Thousands President Donald Trump’s supporters of all stripes, including right wing and far right groups, rallied in Washington, DC, on Saturday to protest the election...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 29, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Winners of Trump’s Washington This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ‘s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast. On April 30, 2018, nine top executives...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden
Opinion | ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden has become the most progressive nominee in history Joe Biden, on a pilgrimage Tuesday to the place where Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, promised a new birth of the New Deal. The former vice president took the fight to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 22, 2020 | • Politics
How the right-wing convinces itself that liberals are evil United Press/Library of Congress; Gage Skidmore; Gage Skidmore If you spend any time consuming right-wing media in America, you quickly learn the following: Liberals are responsible for racism, slavery, and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 17, 2020 | Pseudoscience
I am thinking of a career change. I think I can make more money as a psychic. I checked and I could call myself “The New England Medium” but I think it would be more truthful to call myself “The New England Extra Large”. As soon as I land a Discovery Channel TV show...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 16, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The Second Great Depression At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery. The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2020 | • Politics
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics David Shor lost his job at Civis Analytics after his promotion of an academic study on protests created a Twitter controversy. But the socialist data guru’s insights into U.S. politics and the 2020 election...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
There Is No Such Thing as a Conservative Workers’ Movement The “statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement,” released just before Labor Day by the fledgling think tank American Compass, opens, naturally, with a celebration of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 9, 2020 | • Politics, On Liberalism
Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was Review of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum (Allen Lane, 2020). For Anne Applebaum, whose work on Soviet-era history is so respected it landed her the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 8, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Case Against Trump (and why some of your friends and family no longer want to speak to you) I love this country. I always have. But the last few years in the USA have left me truly aghast. Just when I think that there are no more surprises left in American...
