Having witnessed the car wreckage of the 2016 presidential election, I will be forever wary of making political predictions. The forecasts for Trump and Clinton were so horribly wrong that, at least for a while, it made a complete mockery of the polling profession, relegating ...read more
Under Donald Trump's disastrous tenure as president of the United States, opinions of American have plummeted around the world. A Pew Research Center poll confirms that people around the world have less confidence in Trump’s leadership than they have for dictators Vladimir ...read more
White evangelical Christians overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump for president in 2016, believing that a man who confessed to sexually assaulting women, denigrated immigrants and ran on a vicious campaign of bigotry and hatred would be preferable to a woman who, well, wrote ...read more
The disintegration of the Republican Party continues in earnest. While some of the damage is certainly due to persistent and reinvigorated attacks and activism from the left, much of the damage is self-inflicted. In fact, I would suggest nearly all of it appears from the outside ...read more
At some point, we’ve all been told not to care what other people think. Whether it be our parents, friends, therapists or significant others, the general trend in our individualistic philosophy is to boost self worth and confidence by choosing to define ourselves. In short, ...read more
Donald Trump was up early on Sunday morning, presumably because it was Father's Day and the president was anticipating the patriotic displays of devotion from his ardent followers (or figuring out how to top last year's heart warming message). So what was he actually doing up ...read more
Regardless of whether you support Trump's platform of rampant xenophobia, climate change denial and tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, it is undeniable that he is without a doubt an atrocious boss. How do we know this? Because Trump doesn't actually have a government to manage. ...read more
You might recall how, several weeks ago, Michael Moore appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher and declared with a predictable blast of controversy that Donald Trump would be elected the next president of the United States. Trump, he said, will ride on the backs of like-minded ...read more
Nothing is going right for Donald Trump. Absolutely nothing. The day began with Trump delivering a speech in which he channeled Bernie Sanders on trade and the TPP agreement while posed in front of a giant pile of garbage. It's unclear who authorized the location, but a ...read more
Donald Trump was correct to assume that it'd be easy to flimflam conservative voters caught in the throes of Obama derangement syndrome -- the brainwashed disciples of Fox News Channel, each obsessed with non-scandal scandals and the intentional misinformation peddled by their ...read more
When Donald Trump leapfrogged GOP field in polling over the summer, conventional wisdom said it was only a matter of time before his lead gave way to a more seasoned politician. Over the years we've seen Republican primary voters fall hard and fast for political newbies like Ben ...read more