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Renewed Recriminations over Election 2016
In the latest installment from The Election That Will Not End, a renewed attack on third party supporters for supposedly enabling Donald Trump’s surprise victory last year is making headlines, with political commentator Bill Maher leading the charge against those who could not bring themselves to supporting the Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine Democratic ticket in Election […]
Election 2016’s Blame Game
As the reality of Donald J. Trump’s victory in the November 8 presidential election sets in, Democrats and progressives have been trading accusations over who – or what – may have led to this historic electoral defeat. For progressives who backed Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders in the primaries, the culprit is clearly the Democratic […]
Campaign 2016: The two-party system loses credibility
For generations, the U.S. public has largely accepted that the two-party system was the best we could hope for: while perhaps not perfect, this particular brand of democracy – dominated since the 1800s by the Democratic and Republican parties – is certainly more democratic than the one-party communist dictatorships of China or North Korea, and […]
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