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What bothers me these days isn’t so much pundits who tell us, usually with a sense of gravitas and supposed superior knowledge, that removing Trump via impeachment or the ballot box isn’t enough to turn the country around. I expect…
Some people think that to say anything positive about Nancy Pelosi sullies their radical credentials. Seems like the ghost of the “radical sixties” has a new lease on life. To paraphrase Marx, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as…
To reduce the impeachment fight, as framed by Democratic Party leaders, to simply an intra class fight of competing elites is mistaken and could be dangerous if too many people swallowed this swill. But public opinion polls suggest that growing…
Samuel Moyn’s oped, “Impeachment isn’t the answer to America’s political crisis,” might seem radical at first glance, but on closer inspection, it’s a modernized version of leftist analysis that in its earlier iterations in the second half of the 20th century…
Nancy Pelosi understands that politics is a complex process of building large political majorities. One aspect of that process is having a feel for the mood of millions as well as her own diverse caucus, while another is a sense…