by MCDC | Aug 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Opinion, Racism
Through tacit endorsements of conspiracy theories and offering policies based on bigotry and blind nationalism, Trump has given a loud voice to the concerns of white supremacists, misogynists, militant patriots, and other groups loosely collected by the umbrella term...
by MCDC | Aug 17, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Opinion
I’ve been an active Republican for all of my adult life. That this venerable political party, once home to visionary thinkers and leaders, could hand its presidential nomination to Trump, who seems not to know how much he doesn’t know and could not care...
by MCDC | Jul 24, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Opinion, Video
“We need to examine what has happened to have pushed us so low.” -Larry J. Sabato In this week’s #AmericanForumTV episode with host Doug Blackmon, political scientist and prognosticator Larry Sabato on the past and future of our political...
by MCDC | Jul 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Issues, News, Opinion
“At the national level, the delusions necessary to sustain our Cold War coalition were becoming dangerous long before Donald Trump arrived. From tax policy to climate change, we have found ourselves less at odds with philosophical rivals than with the...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Opinion
The party of Lincoln disintegrates into to the party of Trump Republicans who are not in the least progressive have reason to mourn what is likely to come to pass this week: the transformation of the Party of Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower into the Party of Trump. Some...
by MCDC | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, News, Opinion
If details enable #Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s opponents to discredit his ideas, then Ryan defends himself by refusing to offer details. As Tara Culp-Ressler notes, Ryan’s latest set of health care proposals “doesn’t include information about exactly...
