Cory Booker has been considered a rising star on the left for years now. He is bright, engaging, and forceful. Before the ink was dry on Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, people had already started floating his name as a potential nominee in 2020. In fact, I posted something to that effect halfway through […]
Read more "Political Purity: The (White) Left’s Cory Booker Problem"When Meryl Streep was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award at last weekend’s Golden Globes she decided to use her acceptance speech as a platform to endorse diversity and to criticize President-elect Donald Trump for playing to the worst elements of his base. She led off by describing the diverse backgrounds of various actors in […]
Read more "Who is a Real American?"I know the white working class. I grew up in a family where this title was worn both as a badge of honor and a symbol of strength. My community was about as working-class as they come– Lima is among the poorest, least educated, and the most hard-scrabble places you’ll find in the United States. […]
Read more "Sorry, White Working-Class Apologists: Not Viewing Racism or Sexism as a Deal-Breaker Makes You Racist and Sexist"Ahistorical comparisons are all the rage today. We’ve got a constant stream of “Trump and Brexit are Hitler, Mussolini and the rise of fascism” posts. And the shocking murder of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov by a Turkish police officer/terrorist has brought forth a host of comparisons to the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by […]
Read more "Andrei Karlov Is Not Franz Ferdinand"Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a masterful reflection on the Obama era in The Atlantic this month. Clear an hour on your schedule and go read My President Was Black. The entire piece is worth your time-, but I want to highlight this selection: “Much ink has been spilled in an attempt to understand the Tea Party […]
Read more "Was Your President Black?"Josh Mandel (R), Ohio’s Treasurer and “up and coming” GOP star wanted to be the first to scream “radical Islamic terrorism” after the strange, confusing, and shocking events on Ohio State’s campus last Monday. Just hours after the attack Mandel tweeted that it was clearly an act of radical Islamic terrorism. His evidence? The name and […]
Read more "What is in a Name?"Conservative media outlets– including many who were vehemently anti-Trump prior to his election– have been flooding the blogosphere with an intolerable number of poorly reasoned explanations for why it doesn’t matter that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly two million votes. This post from RedState, the most popular on their site today, is representative. […]
Read more "Why Do We Have an Electoral College?"The internet is full of shock and surprise– and I certainly am– at the election of Donald J. Trump to the highest office in the land. In spite of polls, projections, and the vast majority of intelligentsia (both left and right) being squarely aligned against them, Trump and his supporters narrowly lost the popular election […]
Read more "The Age of Donald is Upon Us: Now What?"If it wasn’t clear before last night, it should be now. Our long national nightmare with Donald J. Trump is coming to its merciful end. But Trump has never been one to go gently into the night. If he can’t simply take his ball and go home, he’d like to destroy the ball so no […]
Read more "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"Conservative Christians continue to try to convince themselves to mount a full-throated support of Donald Trump against the ‘unholy’ prospects of Hillary Clinton and liberalism winning another four years in the White House. Look no further than Father Frank Pavone’s disturbing remarks in the aftermath of Trump’s scandalous sexual assault remarks. In responding to […]
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Rivers of Time 