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Why Not Pardon 11M Immigrants?
The next Dem president can change the immigration debate.
2016 wasn’t a working class revolt
The politics of class is actually pretty simple. People who earn more annually than the national average tend to be up for grabs but skew toward the Republicans. People who earn less annually than the national average skew heavily toward the Democrats. This is not how we currently understand class politics. The campaign press corps…
Stop the Nonsense about the Working Class. 2016 Was a Revolt of the Petite Bourgeois
Don’t appeal to voters immune to “health care, health care, health care.”
Trump’s Secret Police?
Things are heading in that direction.
Border Patrol as Trump’s Secret Police?
History and current events point in that direction.
ICYMI: All Hail King Don
And other stories you missed last week.
ICYMI: Info Warfare, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, Dem Primaries and His Majesty King Donald
What you missed this week.
Principled or Patsy? Interpreting Barr
How much benefit of the doubt are you willing to give him?
Let’s Talk About How We Talk About Politics
More political reality, less political fiction. Please.
Sounds like treason to me
I sometimes find myself thinking the same thoughts as Greg Sargent, the Post columnist. Greg ran an interview today with former Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich. They talked about the president’s urging Bill Barr’s DOJ to go easy on Roger Stone, which, by definition, is an obstruction of justice. Here’s what struck me…