THANK YOU, VETS, for your service to our country
The First flu is forever
RIP Leonard Cohen
Never a fan, but I know a lot of people who were
A freakout at Oglethorpe
A freakout at CU Boulder
Who to laugh at first? The students, the faculty, or the administration?
Amusing: Celebrity Meltdowns
"How does it feel to be just about the only newspaper pundit in America who saw this coming?"
Say, Perhaps We Self-Obsessed New York and D.C. Elites are a Tad Out of Touch With Regular Americans
VDH: A Blow to the Non-Elite Elite :
It became easy to say that a “crude” Trump and a “crooked” Clinton polluted the 2016 campaign. The real culprits were a corrupt Washington elite, who were as biased as they were incompetent — and clueless about how disliked they were by the very America they held in such contempt.
Some good recent history: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul - In the 1970s, a new
wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The
result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
True the Dems became the party of banks, big corporations, lesbians, and feminists and abandoned appeals to the rural areas, the shopkeeprs, etc. - but they are wrong about Trump's appeal, which is heavily to the old Dem base. Lefties keep bringing up Trump as authoritarian, when he is just Populist even to the point of complaining about Amazon. Of course, old-fashioned populism no longer works in a world of multinational corporations and relatively free trade. If you somehow broke up Amazon, for example, Mr. Ma in China would buy the pieces and keep running it.
In Eight Years Barack Obama Has Obliterated the Democrat Party in Record Numbers
At Slate, The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished
Whoever takes over what’s left of the Democratic Party is going to have to find a way to appeal to a broader cross section of the country. It may still be true that in the long term, Republicans can’t win with their demographics, but we found out Tuesday that the long term is still pretty far away. Democrats have to win more white voters. They have to do so in a way that doesn’t erode the anti-racist or anti-sexist planks of the modern party, which are non-negotiable. If only there were a model for this.
Racism and sexism are Repub values?
What Does It Now Mean to Be a Democrat?
Where does the great Kareem get the idea that he should freak out about Trump?
He is so very wrong about this. "Trump has been in the public eye for at least thirty years. He was never accused of racism until he opposed a Democrat."
"My 8 year-old is terrified about Trump."
Mother Jones’ Clara Jeffery compares Trump’s win to 9/11
Donald Trump is the punk-rock president America deserves
He is a punk. So was Obama.
CBS: Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press
Trump’s win leaves Republicans no time — or need — for blame games
You get 100 days to do your big things
Exploding the poor white myth of Trump's rise to power
Chelsea Clinton being groomed to run for Congress
She apparently cannot hold a real job
Gore said Trump's election “would take us toward a climate catastrophe.”
Get ready for Trump-caused hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, winds, and fires. Elections sure are powerful.
InsideClimate News: In Trump, U.S. Puts a Climate Denier in Its Highest Office and All Climate Change Action in Limbo
Sanity, finally
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