The March boost in Donald Trump’s approval ratings, already modest compared with those of other U.S. presidents in times of crisis, has now faded. Joe Biden, certain to be the Democratic Party’s candidate in the November election, is leading Trump…
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Iran: Democrats Are Letting Trump Off His Own Hook
by jeff.faux •
American are not isolationists, but they tell pollsters that they strongly oppose their country playing the role of global policeman. For many of Trump’s 2016 voters in depressed communities in battleground states, “America First” meant spending less time on the…
The Myth of the Moderate Democrat
by jeff.faux •
The rout of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the recent British general election quickly fed into the assertion of conventional wisdom among U.S. pundits: Democrats can only win next year’s U.S. election with a candidate who campaigns from the “center.”…
Will Americans Support a Big Green Government?
by jeff.faux •
The Green New Deal is a big complex idea. Pulling it off requires a big competent government. Yes, the bulk of the new jobs and opportunities will be in the private sector, and much of the work will be done…
Democrats Should Not Stop Now
by jeff.faux •
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him,” observed Ralph Waldo Emerson. The impeachment hearings have wounded Trump, but he is far from politically dead. Therefore, Democrats are making a big mistake if they wrap up the House…
Breaking Out of the Democrats’ Paralysis on Immigration
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Trump has signaled that he will make immigration a major—if not the major— theme of his re-election campaign. He could not even resist the temptation to immigrant-bash in his supposed consolation tour of El Paso and Dayton. He is backed…
Why are Leading Democrats Supporting Trump on Venezuela?
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Ramping up war-fever against Iran, Donald Trump seems to have jerked his erratic attention span away from his campaign to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. The embarrassing fiasco of pretender Juan Guaidó’s failed coup last month temporarily frustrated Trump’s search for…
Trump Laying a Trap for Democrats on Immigration
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Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats thoroughly outplayed Donald Trump in January’s legislative battle over funding for his border wall; he didn’t get an additional dime. So when Trump sent up his annual proposed budget asking for still more, Democrats scoffed.…
Why Populism?
by jeff.faux •
There is much handwringing among mainstream politicians and pundits over the loss of American leadership, dangers to the liberal international world order, and the retrograde nationalism of the new populism. Yet elites on both sides of the Atlantic continue to ignore the…
Mexico’s Hopeful New President
by jeff.faux •
The election of the left populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as president of Mexico is an historic breakthrough for progressives there. It could also offer progressives in the United States a path out of their own political stalemate on immigration…