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WHY THE LIBERAL ELITE DOESN’T TALK TO THE DEPLORABLES by George Salamon “The calculus of material well-being…hinges on an historic assumption that between the world of culture and the realities of life for the masses there is an unbridgeable gulf.” —Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class (1972) THE LIBERAL elite supporting […]
Read Moreby Ralph Seliger I’M AWED that Michael Moore foresaw in July that Donald Trump would break through among blue-collar Rust Belt voters. Sadly, for a variety of reasons we need not discuss in detail here (and are not entirely her fault), Hillary Clinton was the wrong candidate to blunt Trump’s charge. His small but decisive […]
Read MoreTHE STRUGGLE AHEAD by Richard Greeman IF DONALD TRUMP’S electoral revolution came as a surprise, the profound disgust of the citizenry for the ruling elites has long been no surprise to anyone. The folks in the middle and at the bottom, left high and dry by the post-2008 “recovery” in favor of the top 1 […]
Read Moreby George Salamon “The Democrats have become the party of the more affluent and more educated, while the Republicans have become the party of the less advantaged working class –- a pattern which has accelerated in this election season.” –Richard Florida, “America’s Class-Divided Electorate,” in Citylab, October 26, 2016 THAT DISCOMFORTING TRUTH is not one […]
Read Moreby Marc Jampole SHAME ON US, white people. We just rejected the most presidential, qualified candidate in history to vote for a mentally ill buffoon who spews hate speech and has no impulse control. We voted against someone who has studied every issue and developed a reasoned approach to each so we could vote for […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush OF THE SERIES of ten anti-Trump posters that I knocked out in ten days last month, it was the third image — Adolf Hitler reading about Trump and delighting in the news — that went beyond the bounds for some readers. At the time I was reading a new biography of Hitler, […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor THE TIME has perhaps come for a hypocrisy check. As the number of women accusing Trump of unwanted sexual advances mounts, we all sit in shock and horror, wondering how anyone can continue to support him, and how anyone can think, as Trump claims, that this is all a politically manipulated campaign […]
Read MoreA DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE 2016 CAMPAIGN by Marc Jampole CONTEMPLATING a day in the life of the current American presidential campaign is enough to make a sane person want to blow “his mind out in a car.” You know, the race between a “lucky man who [never] made the grade” and an […]
Read Moreby Marc Jampole I BEGAN NOTICING Donald Trump sniffing about a third of the way through the debate. He would pause several times in the middle of a run-on sentence and sniff loudly, kind of like a 7-year-old explaining that the dog ate his homework or a kid who has just lost a schoolyard fight. […]
Read Moreby Marc Jampole AMERICANS in the 21st century judge their presidential candidates on many parameters: issues, party, character, demeanor (presidentialness, if I may coin a phrase), trustworthiness, and experience. Often how the candidates say what they’ll do is as important as what they say they’ll do. Let’s set aside all other aspects of the voting […]
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