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...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 15, 2020 | • Politics, Tax Policy, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? The United States’ annual budget deficit is set to reach nearly $1 trillion this year, more than four percent of GDP and up from $585 billion in 2016. As a result of the continuing shortfall, over the next decade, the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 15, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Feb. 13, 2020 Opinion | Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist Maybe Buttigieg is unaware of the growing consensus among mainstream economists that the deficit hysteria of seven or eight years ago was greatly overblown. Last year the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 13, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Noam Chomsky: Democratic Party Centrism Risks Handing Election to Trump As the 2020 election race heats up, U.S. politics, the nation’s political culture as a whole, and even the future of organized human life are at a crossroads. Another four years of Donald...
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 4, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Humor, The Democrats
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 Sanders…
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...
