Jesse Kelly has been banned from Twitter with no explanation whatsoever, which—among other things—is in violation of Twitter’s own stated policy for informing people of the reasons for a ban. I’d never heard of Jesse Kelly before this incident. And … Continue reading →
Well, one thing we know about Chief Justice Roberts: he’s not a “Trump judge.” You’ve probably heard about the back-and-forth between Trump and Roberts on the issue of the partisanship of the judiciary. To recap: Mr Trump on Tuesday called … Continue reading →
I wasn’t particularly surprised at the results of the recent election. They were predicted, although not every exact detail. Probably none of you were really surprised, either. But on another level I continue to be surprised at how many people … Continue reading →
Commenter Mike K asks: I am still interested in why Ducey, in his race for governor got 1,241,028 votes and McSally got 1, 059, 124 votes. That’s almost 200,000 votes more for the GOP governor than for the GOP Senator. … Continue reading →
I can’t bear to do too much in-depth reporting on what’s been going on with the Florida election. It makes me too angry. I don’t like losing close elections. Nobody does. But it’s one thing to lose them fair and … Continue reading →
Recently David Horowitz gave a talk at Dartmouth. He has written the college’s president this note about his experience: Leading the pack of Dartmouth character assassins who mobilized to combat my presence was Professor Annelise Oreleck, an out-of-control Gender Studies … Continue reading →
What’s going on with vote-counting in Arizona and Florida—and especially Florida—is profoundly disturbing. It’s one thing to lose a close race. It’s another to have votes dribble out in a slow bleed, always seeming to favor Democrats (and with Democrats … Continue reading →
I think of yesterday’s election as a small skirmish, a battle in a long long war. And yes, that’s a metaphor. But I think it’s an apt one. During the Obama years the right was worried about a lot of … Continue reading →
Not exactly, but sort of: …[T]he American electorate has separated into two increasingly homogenous political tribes. As Lilliana Mason points out in Uncivil Agreement, “partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity.” The Republican mega-identity is religious, middle-class, rural, … Continue reading →
There are quite a few interesting things about this incident. The first is that there are still Republican students and a Republican Club at Stanford these days. The second is that involves a male college student filing assault charges against … Continue reading →
Now that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there’s a lot of analysis of going on about the nature of the process we actually witnessed. While the battle was still ongoing, Christine Ford was treated by the GOP as … Continue reading →
You hear it everywhere right now: the Republican Party is united as never before. Mitch McConnell was pretty witty about it: “I want to thank the mob because they’ve done the one thing we were having trouble doing, which was … Continue reading →