Over at New York magazine, pretty smart guy Eric Levitz (unless I’m confusing him with someone else, and I don’t think I am) interviews pretty smart guy David Shor, recently defenestrated from his position at Civis Analytics for, you know, analyzing stuff—i.e., posting a link to a study suggesting that violent demonstrations are, shockingly enough,…
Tag: 2016 election
Alas, Poor Hillary!
Only in America (probably) could a woman running for office who received 2.7 million more votes than her opponent be reviled and ridiculed as a “loser”. Yet such is the hard fate of the hard to love Hillary Rodham Clinton. If I were really mean, I would say that Hillary can’t stop stepping on her…
Why Did Hillary “Lose”?
The most important, and the ugliest, thing to happen in 2016 was the decision of 46 percent of the American electorate to vote for the worst major party presidential candidate in American history. The second most important was the decision of 48 percent to vote for Hillary Clinton. So why did Hillary “lose”? It is…
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump
On November 9, 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte engineered a coup that made him First Consul and ended republican government in France. By the date of the Republican calendar then in effect in France, the date was 18 Brumaire in the year VIII.1 In 1852, Karl Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, commemorating in contempt…
Why did Comey fold?
Glen Thrush has a “nice” look-back at the 2016 presidential campaign (nice if you have the stomach to revisit what for me is a gaping wound) up at Politico, “10 crucial decisions that reshaped America”. Near the end of the piece, commenting on Hillary’s reluctance to engage in non-stop campaigning (in part, one suspects, a…
Note to Liberals: Five Things That Are Dead
Gun Control: Gun Control does not stop crime, but it does kill the careers of Democratic politicians. When you speak, write, or think, the word “gun” should neither precede nor succeed the word “control” by a period of less than six weeks. Global Warming: Anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact. Here is another fact: the…