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Tag: Trump

Reconciling the Various Reasons for Trump

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 15, 2017 Posted in Economics, Society Tagged with Election, Race, Trump

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 …

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5 Reasons to Enjoy the Trump Regime

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 13, 2017 Posted in Politics, Society Tagged with Democracy, Election, Trump

The blows are relentless. Our news feeds deliver multiple shocks each day. The barrage slows time down — surely it can’t be only 24 days since the inauguration? And yet there is joy to be found in all this. 1. The …

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What Went Wrong

By Phil Mayes Posted on November 9, 2016 Posted in Politics Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Election, Trump

Here’s what went wrong. There were establishment and populist candidates on both sides. Thirty years of tax cuts, trade agreements and computerization gave all the productivity gains to the top, and the average person suffered. Republicans chose the populist candidate, the …

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Continuing NYTimes Bias

By Phil Mayes Posted on May 10, 2016 Posted in Media, Politics Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Clinton, Election, New York Times, Trump

I have railed for months about the pro-Clinton bias in the NYTimes. Today’s headline reads Three Crucial States Show Tight Races Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton PARA 2: “The Quinnipiac University surveys, released on Tuesday, show Mrs. Clinton leading Mr. …

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