Amid the GOP that was on display last week with the ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney, but it seems to be an underreported fact that this year will see four major elections (VA and NJ Gubernatorial, NYC Mayor’s race, and the California Recall) and the GOP will be 0–4 in all of them. If you add the two GA Senate races it means that the GOP will be 0–6 in major races after Trump’s defeat. While people may write off this result as a Blue State phenomenon, it’s important to realize that the GOP made a clean sweep of these…

At the end of Biden’s first 100 days, one surprising finding an NBC News poll uncovered was that voters perceived Biden as being more moderate than Obama, despite the biggest domestic spending program in U.S. history. In addition, the 42% that view Biden as moderate would not only put him above Obama, every other newly elected President, including Bill Clinton — the previous leader in getting voters to see him as moderate — by 5 percentage points. …

Understanding GOP Opposition to Human Infrastructure

President Biden’s historic American Families Plan is a large-scale investment in what is increasingly being called “human infrastructure”. The plan is sweeping and will transform the U.S. Government’s relationship with children and families in much the same way the New Deal transformed the U.S. Government’s relationship with adults — so much so that Biden’s approach could be called “The Children’s New Deal.” Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, an expert in family law and director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School, explains:

“I think that President Biden has to date shown himself to be a champion for children…

In late March, Gallup released some astonishing findings. US Church membership sharply plummeted, going from 70% in 2000 to 47% today.

The role and influence of the religious right clearly played a role in this, according to Notre Dame Professor David Campbell:

David Campbell, professor and chair of the University of Notre Dame’s political science department and co-author of Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics, said a reason for the decline among those groups is political — an “allergic reaction to the religious right”.

“Many Americans — especially young people — see religion as bound up with…

The Quality of Mercy.

Forgiveness can be given to those who show remorse — but with no admission of guilt or even a shadow of regret, justice must be served.

When Ford pardoned Nixon, it was understood that Nixon would not claim innocence, much less run for President again. Trump, however, started his 2024 campaign immediately after Election Day, on November 4th.

There is no Trumpism without Trump. There will, of course, be Republican candidates who continue to run on xenophobia, racism, conspiracy theories, etc… But without a celebrity “billionaire” con artist at the helm play-acting as a political outsider…