by Bill Scher | May 10, 2016 | Blog
"I think I'll get a lot of his supporters" Donald Trump said on CNN of Bernie Sanders voters. A few seconds earlier, Trump smeared Sanders, saying he "could be beyond a socialist." That sums up his problem. Trump and Sanders are like oil and water, and so are their...
by Bill Scher | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn't take much to expose incoherence, yet it seems to flummox media headline writers who are itchy to summarize only one...
by Bill Scher | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/HSEi0RXGVq8?t=10m8s[/fve] Donald Trump, being a politician, likes to say different things to different audiences. When he was running in the Republican primary, he rejected raising the minimum wage: "...wages [are] too high, we’re not going to be...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Modern American Conservatism died last night at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It was 35 years old. Born with the 1980 presidential election of Ronald Reagan, conservatism had an impressive childhood. After cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating the economy,...
by Bill Scher | May 2, 2016 | Blog
In The New Republic today I explore how Hillary Clinton could campaign when there are two disparate camps of voters she will be compelled to pursue: Bernie Sanders voters on her left, and anti-Donald Trump Republicans on her right. Sanders voters are...