by Leo Gerard | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Two Republican judges ceded their principles last week to Ohio Republicans intent on suppressing the African-American vote. The Ohio GOP, like their counterparts nationally, have decided that if they can’t win minority voters, they will cheat. So over the past decade,...
by Robert Reich | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I recently got a call from a political analyst in Washington. “Trump is dropping like a stone,” he said, convincingly. “After Election Day, he’s history.” I think Trump will lose the election, but I doubt he’ll be “history.” Defeated presidential candidates typically...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, in a scathing take-down of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton linked him to white supremacists and white nationalists in the alt-right movement, and laid bare his own history of racial discrimination. Republicans responded with deafening silence. When the...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Working in the film business, I briefly met the Donald Trump Republican presidential campaign’s new CEO, Steve Bannon, during the 1990s when he was a Hollywood investment banker. As one producer whom Bannon helped raise capital for told me, even back then he was an...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
In a scorching takedown of Donald Trump and his alt-right allies, Hillary Clinton reminded Americans that silence never defeats hatred, but that it must be called out and exposed for what it is. With a record like his, Trump had it coming. After a week of hypocritical...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Flagging in the polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has decided to shake up his campaign, bringing in Stephen Bannon, head of Breitbart News LLC, as CEO. Paul Manafort, the experienced Republican operative who has urged Trump to pivot toward the center...