by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2021 | • Politics, The Democrats
Mark Lilla: the liberal who counts more enemies on the left than the right ark Lilla has spent much of his almost four-decade career trafficking in a certain kind of hyper-scholarly intellectual debate. His witty, densely argued essays analyzing Hannah Arendt,...
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 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...
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 | Mar 4, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Column: Bernie Sanders isn’t going to destroy the Democratic Party. He just might save it After Bernie Sanders led the popular vote in the Iowa caucuses, the emails started trickling in. Alarmed Democrats, and excited Republicans, saw in Sanders a ghost that has...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Noam Chomsky: “The Democrats abandoned the working class decades ago” Building on a friendship initiated in Sandinista Nicaragua of the 1980s, Wallace Shawn – a committed activist but someone who is best known as an accomplished dramatist and actor...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
The Differences Between Warren and Sanders Matter Read: Team Bernie isn’t fazed by the bros As a presidential candidate, Sanders has somewhat tempered his radicalism. When he talks about his political forerunners, he identifies more strongly with Franklin D....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
After Bernie Sanders’ landslide Nevada win, it’s time for Democrats to unite behind him | Nathan Robinson It was a landslide. Bernie Sanders had been expected to win the Nevada caucuses, but not like this. With just 4% of the vote in, news organizations...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
When Will Moderates Learn Their Lesson? If centrists can’t move past their doctrine and recognize when their candidates are unelectable, then how will Democrats ever beat Trump? The two major policy pitches for the Democratic nominee for president of the United...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
…Carville closes on the note that has defined liberal electoral politics for nearly three decades—an obsession with “swing voters” that always leads to the same conclusion: to win, move to the right. If you don’t win, keep moving further right until you do. It...
