by Peter Simon | May 1, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
Andrew Sullivan’s recent assault on Trump in New York Magazine — “The Case Against The People” — is so bad I am loathe to waste pixels on it, viewing it as little more than the conditioned Pavlovian drool one has come to expect from illiberal...
by Peter Simon | Apr 14, 2016 | Culture, Ideology, Politics |
At the moment 35% of Republican voters vote Trump. The emotional drivers of many of them are considered to be anger and anxiety, but journalists suggesting that anger is the whole of the Trump phenomenon are merely throwing the usual mud at The Donald. Some like him...
by Peter Simon | Mar 15, 2016 | Culture, Ideology, Politics |
What distinguishes Bernie Sanders from Donald Trump? The similarities of these two candidates is one of the unspoken mysteries of the 2016 campaign. Their outsider status, the overwhelming whiteness of their constituency, their working class support, their unease...
