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 | May 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, The 2020 Presidential Race
How Trump lost his Electoral College edge to Biden The idea that President Trump possesses an enormous Electoral College advantage in November’s election has become an article of faith among thinkers across the political...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 2, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden, Racism, The 2020 Presidential Race
Biden’s Racism Is More Veiled Than Trump’s – But No Less Real When it comes to race, Joe Biden’s record and rhetoric reflect the broader hypocrisy of U.S. politics. While Biden rightly criticizes Donald Trump’s racism, he then praises...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 30, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Echoing what Bruce Bartlett wrote on FaceBook… I don’t know the truth of the Tara Reade story, but I think we can all agree that Joe Biden has handled it very badly. This bodes ill for his ability to deflect or respond to the inevitable smears that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 10, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
How the Anti-Populists Stopped Bernie Sanders, by Thomas Frank Just a few short years ago we Americans knew what we were doing: making the world into one big likeness of ourselves. We had the experts; we knew how it was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 8, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Bernie Sanders’s campaign is over, but his legacy is winning Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is over. And unlike his 2016 run, which surely counted as a kind of moral victory, his 2020 loss is a much more crushing and definitive defeat. But what...
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 6, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race
A friend of mine wrote this linking to this article… We are clearly paying the price for leadership that acts on “feelings” rather than listening to the experts. This has to stop. Dr. Fauci Warned In 2017 Of ‘Surprise Outbreak’ During Trump...
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 | Apr 4, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race
‘It’s an exhausting story’: Jonathan Karl on his up-close view of Trump At a White House briefing late last month, Jonathan Karl asked what he regarded as the fundamental question that day, about the coronavirus pandemic. “And everybody who...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 1, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Just one of the reasons I am so worried about Joe Biden as our Democratic...
