Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America (source)by Gaius PubliusI want to put this on people's radar and suggest a few questions as the drama begins to unfold: What would happen if Bernie Sanders ran for President in 2020?Barring Change, Sanders Could Easily Enter the Race First, let
With the Democratic Party’s “Unity Reform Commission” now history, major political forces are entering a new stage of contention over the future of the party. Seven months after the commission’s first meeting — and nine months after Hillary Clinton backer Tom Perez won a close election over Bernie Sanders supporter Keith Ellison to become chair of the Democratic National Committee — the battle lines are coming into focus for next year.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama discuss exiting from NAFTA in the 2008 Cleveland debateby Gaius PubliusThe mainstream wing of the Democratic Party, it seems, has not learned the lesson of "job-killing trade deals" since the last election. But all is not lost on the subject trade. If Trump gets his way — yes, this is a positive story about a Trump policy — the country may see the end of something that should never have been started in the first place. The Trump administration is threatening to kill NAFTA. Will the threat succeed?
By riding hatred of President Trump and spurring on the Russia-gate hysteria, Democrats hope to win in 2018 without a serious examination of why they lost support of key working- and middle-class voting blocs, says Andrew Spannaus. By Andrew Spannaus…Read more →
Analysis — Last Tuesday, the media rejoiced after a series of local elections – as well as two governorships – were won by Democrats, an outcome that was widely interpreted as representing a broad repudiation of the Republican party and current pres
By Greg Felton | November 12, 2017 To this day, establishment Democrats are in denial about their party’s role in causing the election of Donald Trump. Rather than support the candidacy of the popular, progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, who would have defeated Trump handily, the Democratic National Committee sabotaged his campaign so that it could […]
Exclusive: Neither the Democrats nor President Trump learned the right lessons from the 2016 election, leaving the nation divided at home and bogged down in wars abroad, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry One year ago, the American electorate delivered…Read more →
Progressives had an opportunity to deliver a “massive repudiation of Donald Trump“—and of Trumpism more broadly—Tuesday night with gubernatorial and state legislature races taking place across the country Tuesday night, and they delivered in a big way.
In her recent book “What Happened”, Hillory Clinton makes endless tearful, self-pitying excuses for the disastros 2016 US election, in which the climate-change-denying, racist, wealth-worshipping Republican Party gained control over the Presidency, the Congress and the Senate. But what really happened in that terrible election was that voters were faced with a choice between two evils, and many disillutioned[Read More...]
Stunned by the defection of working-class whites, many Democrats respond by calling these Trump voters “stupid” and hoping that Russia-gate will be the “deus ex machina” to restore Democratic power, as poet Phil Rockstroh explains. By Phil Rockstroh Recently, Democratic…Read more →
