Author: BooMan

What is Less Credible Than Trump? Everything

I think Steve Kornacki is on the right track. He’s looking at the polling numbers for Trump and acknowledging that they look bad, but he’s noting that they’ll also looked bad as election day drew near last...

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Will Trump’s Purge Work Out Better Than FDR’s?

Considering how far left the political pendulum had swung during the elections of 1932, 1934 and 1936, the midterm elections of 1938 were probably never going to bring good news for the Democratic Party. Some degree of backlash...

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September Will Be a Meat-Grinder

Lindsey McPherson at Roll Call does a nice job of laying things out for you so you can begin to get a sense of the challenges Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will be facing when they return from vacation. As of now,...

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Charlottesville and Tax Reform’s Prospects

On the surface, Stan Collender of Forbes is on solid ground when he argues that the Republicans will not succeed in enacting a comprehensive tax reform because the president is too weak. Collender presents some of the obvious...

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Will Charlottesville Matter in Six Months?

I’ve mentioned many times that I really respect Dan Balz as a bigfoot political print reporter. I think he does his job about as well as anyone can within the strictures of the genre. I believe he has respect from...

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