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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 […]
Not free, not fair: The folly of ‘finding meaning’ in the 2014 midterms
As the dust settles from the Democrats’ midterm shellacking – with the GOP last week picking up three governorships, 12 House seats and seven Senate seats, gaining control of that chamber for the first time since 2006 – pundits continue to debate the root cause of the Democrats’ failure, searching for the elusive “meaning” of […]
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