by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 25, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
A Page-By-Page Guide To The Redacted Mueller Report | Rantt History is being written before our eyes. A redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report was released at 11 am on Thursday. #MuellerReport trended number one on Twitter worldwide...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | Trump has no idea what he’s doing The thing to keep in mind about President Trump, as he thrashes around like a weak swimmer in a strong current, is that he has no idea what he’s doing. None. Not a clue. I know that he can be clever politically,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Jobs
Two Charts Show Trump’s Job Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama’s Presidency There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since President Trump took office. Candidate Trump touted that there would be...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 3, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
I was looking around for something that would explain to me exactly what Trumponomics is (other than a random scattershot policy) and while I haven’t really found an answer yet I did come across this interesting video on what Trump doesn’t get or...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 29, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Five Conclusions From the Mueller Report If there wasn’t collusion, it sure wasn’t for lack of trying. I spent the week after the release of the Mueller report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The scientific maneuver Mueller used that implicates the president This post is part of Mischiefs of Faction , an independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system. If you are a fan of movies or stories where a clever protagonist uses...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | There’s a Bigger Prize Than Impeachment In the fall of 1998, Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff, traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with the speaker of the House. Mr. Bowles enjoyed a better relationship with Speaker Newt Gingrich than anyone...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 20, 2019 | • Politics, Barak Obama, Donald Trump
Opinion | Obama’s presidency will be hailed as transformative. Trump’s will be viewed with scorn. As it was with George W. Bush and every other president who preceded him, Barack Obama made policy decisions I found troubling. Obama once described the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
More coal plants shut down in Trump’s first two years than in Obama’s entire first term The last time U.S. coal consumption was this low, Jimmy Carter was president. Despite campaigning on a pledge to save the dirtiest of fossil fuels, President Donald...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 19, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Corey Robin via Facebook alerted me to this great essay on “the Trump as fascist thesis”… Dylan Riley: What Is Trump?. New Left Review 114, November-December 2018. The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 12, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Psychology
This complete psychological analysis reveals 14 key traits that explain Trump supporters Whether we want to or not, for the sake of America, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
West Virginia poverty gets worse under Trump economy, not better West Virginia has a growing poverty problem, and experts there who study the issue say Americans in every state should pay attention. The Appalachian state is, along with Delaware, just one of two states...
