by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 9, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Is Pete Buttigieg Just a Shill for Corporations and the Donor Class? Why has Buttigieg flipped from being a putative progressive to being perhaps the most conservative, pro-corporate Democrat remaining in the field? A good place to start would be to follow the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
The 2020 Disinformation War Deepfakes, anonymous text messages, Potemkin local-news sites, and opposition research on reporters-a field guide to this year’s election and what it could do to the country One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump’s Support Whether we want to or not, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What is most baffling about it all is Trump’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 4, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
McGovern Didn’t Lose in 1972 by Going Too Far Left. Neither Will 2020 Democrats. One of the most persistent arguments surrounding the 2020 presidential contest is that Democrats are heading “off the deep end” on a left-wing ideological bender that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 30, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Michael Brooks one of the main contributors at The Majority Report discusses how the Democrat Establishment is freaking out over Bernie...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 30, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Opinion | What Sanders’s surge says about the Democratic establishment Parts of the Democratic Party establishment are now in full-on panic over the possibility of a Bernie Sanders surge, as poll averages show a growing lead for the Vermont senator in both Iowa...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 29, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change & Global Warming, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
57 Climate Scientists Object After Biden Falsely Claims “Not a Single Solitary Scientist” Thinks Sanders’ Green New Deal Can Work After former Vice President Joe Biden late last week falsely claimed that “there’s not a single solitary...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 20, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, The 2020 Presidential Race
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 12, 2020 | • Politics, Elizabeth Warren, The 2020 Presidential Race
What an Elizabeth Warren Presidency Would Look Like While the wealth tax is popular with voters, it’s unclear whether Democrats will command a big enough majority in Congress to pass it, or if centrist Democrats would support it. But legislation won’t be...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 12, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race
What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like It’s clear that a radical president can shift a party’s center of gravity: Republican public opinion- on immigration, Russia, the FBI -has rapidly moved to align with Trump’s views, and Republican...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me,” Ocasio-Cortez said, after Reuters had reported that Biden was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 To a certain kind of Democratic Party establishmentarian, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she was not “likable” enough – a sentiment that may or may not be thinly veiled code for saying that she’s a...
