Showing posts with label presidential election 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential election 2016. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Walk On By.

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Whatever Democratic voters think — and most of them like Bernie Sanders and his platform — the dominant bulk of Democratic officials oppo...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Proper reading for Independence Day: "How to Properly Criticize RussiaGate."

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"RussiaGate has been a great diversion and 'the bear ate our homework' excuse for the awfulness of the dismal, dollar-drench...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Precinct by precinct: "An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election."

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I'll just leave this here. In the context of our eternal city versus county division, we've compared the position of the Floyd...
Monday, June 04, 2018

Obama aide: "We’d run against Hillary eight years ago with the same message Trump had used."

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Sadly accurate. Dowd refers to a new book by former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, “The World as It Is.” Meanwhile, Bill Clinton -- on second...
Friday, January 20, 2017

"Don’t blame it all on racism. During the financial crash Obama sided with the bankers, not people losing their homes – making Trump’s victory possible."

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On this most auspicious of days, it bears repeating that I admire Barack Obama immensely as a human being performing a thankless job. We may...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: Once more with feeling, because as the notable American philosopher Moe Bandy once sang, “Here I am, drunk again.”

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ON THE AVENUES: Once more with feeling, because as the notable American philosopher Moe Bandy once sang, “Here I am, drunk again.” A wee...

Thomas Frank and Bernie Sanders talk about things Adam Dickey doesn't want to hear.

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Since I'm in such a good mood this morning, we'll be taking a glance as Thomas Frank and Bernie Sanders talk about an array of co...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Democrats seeking an alternative to Trump: "You won’t have a choice but to try something new."

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Trump-ready balconies? "Whatever the cause, something is different here. One age is dying, and another is rearing its head." ...

Yo, Chairman Dickey: "It is crucial that our cultural elite, most of it aligned with the New Democrats, not be allowed to shirk their responsibility for Trump’s success."

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But Uncle Walt typically had better years. It starts right here, at the grassroots, and the Floyd County Democratic Party, the only ent...
Friday, November 18, 2016

"Rural identity has come to be largely defined as an us vs. them mentality, with the them being people who live in cities."

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As a side note, this is the 1,250th post of the year at NAC . This is a new world record, at least for this blog. Can someone out there s...

Five key points: "Class trumps gender, and it’s driving American politics."

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Polish Duck Blood Soup. This is one of the finest pieces I've read on the topic, although it omits mention of the role of religion, ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

"The real triumph of (neoliberalism) was not its capture of the right, but its colonization of parties that once stood for everything Hayek detested."

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Photo credit . The end is the beginning: "Hayek told us who we are, and he was wrong." Neoliberalism: the deep story that ...
Monday, November 14, 2016

WITHIN CITY LIMITS: Episode XIII, This Isn’t the Article I Expected to Write.

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WITHIN CITY LIMITS : Episode XIII, This Isn’t the Article I Expected to Write By Nick Vaughn, Guest Columnist I stood in the ballroom ...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Mike Rowe's election analysis: We're trying to lick a cat without actually putting our tongues on it.

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These past few days, I've been browsing for election perspectives from across the spectrum, and not the places I usually alight. Th...
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"Political cartoonists around the world are sharpening their pencils to illustrate something that can’t be explained in words: President-elect Donald Trump."

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A picture's worth ... yeah, you know. FUNNY, NOT FUNNY: This is how the world’s best cartoonists are reacting to Trump’s victory , by...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders: It looks as if an Independent is the current leader of a rudderless Democratic Party.

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In the sense of an adaptive reuse borne of expedience, the Democratic Party's nuts and bolts might be useful in the short term. Howev...

There is wisdom in NYC restaurateur Danny Meyer’s post-election letter to his employees.

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Time to get off my ass. Democracy, listening, love, acceptance, routine and resiliency are among the bullet points as a prominent rest...
Friday, November 11, 2016

In The Nation: "Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism’s relationship to class politics."

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Know The Nation : The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read week...

ON THE AVENUES: Kind-a full-a you know what, but now we're going to find out whether Jeff Gahan has any cattle under his hat.

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ON THE AVENUES: Kind-a full-a you know what, but now we're going to find out whether Jeff Gahan has any cattle under his hat.  A wee...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Come out from your silos, because it's time to learn from our mistakes.

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Photo credit. "Trump’s message was: 'All is hell.' Clinton answered: 'All is well.' But it’s not well – far from i...