One story that you could tell about the second half of the Obama Presidency is that the politics of the country have been pushed along by movements—Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party—that are not basically about the contest between…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Sanders, Trump, and the Rise of the Non-Voters – The New Yorker
Posted in Noted & Quoted, Politics
Citizen Trump’s Path of Least Resistance to a Classy Profitable Exit
Should Trump, facing unfavorable and deteriorating political prospects, seek to humiliate himself leading a fractured Republican Party to an “epic” defeat in November? Should he prefer to “do all he could to destroy Cruz and the GOP” – turning himself into a hated loser and maker of losers? How would either alternative profit him – or preserve and burnish his all-important brand – at all?