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 | May 24, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Major publications are understandably...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2020 | • Politics, The Republicans
McConnell: Let’s use COVID-19 to crush public sector unions For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. You’ve probably heard that Mitch McConnell wants states to declare bankruptcy instead...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 18, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The Republicans
Analysis | That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too. The insatiable flesh-hunger of zombies wasn’t exactly on photographer Joshua A. Bickel’s mind when he was covering an anti-social-distancing protest at the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 8, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
The Conservative US Supreme Court has said that corporations are people and the rights of individual citizens to vote are restricted, constrained by fewer polling places, limit voting times and other things that make it harder for people, especially racial minority...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 4, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
Republican strategist Stuart Stevens is known for advising key GOP campaigns like Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid. Now he has written a powerful mea culpa for the Washington Post, laying the blame for what he regards as President Trump’s failed response to the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 10, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats, The Republicans
The Moderate Middle Is A Myth Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Independent voters will decide the election. Or better yet: Moderate voters will decide the election. Or, wait for it … If Democrats can move to the middle, they will win in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 14, 2020 | • Politics, Humor, The Republicans
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 | Jan 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
Opinion | Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant who is working with a political action committee that backs Bill Weld for president. Here’s a question: Does anybody have any...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 25, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The Republicans
I am of the mind that we need a robust healthy Republican party in this country and NOT this spawn of Satan pile of shit and shitty ideas we have now with the Trumpist takeover of the party. Opinion | We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated The president and...
