After the election, I concluded that Trump won with three appeals: Bring back jobs Drain the swamp Build the wall and that I approved of the first two. (It’s now clear that all three are unlikely to happen.) Many people have offered reasons why Trump won, and they fall into three areas: Election problems Economic […]
William Saletan has written a Slate article There Is a War Over Race in America in which he brilliantly redraws the dividing line: This is the central thing to understand about what happened in Dallas: Black people who target whites are fundamentally allied with white people who target blacks. They’re on the same team: the race […]
There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election. Yes and no. Look at the electoral shifts since 2004. A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see no reason for this other than racism. The good news is that it is only […]