He’s much more afraid of being known as a fraud than a racist You know the 2016 election is getting to you when Donald Trump’s bigotry starts to make sense. Continuously confronted with most outwardly bigoted major candidate since George Wallace, you could easily to forget that Trump’s use of racism is strategic, as it seems as haphazard and spewed […]

“You have to take the threat of Trump becoming president seriously, but you shouldn’t treat him as a serious person,” Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to President Obama, recently told The New York Times. Get it? You don’t have to squint to see a bit of Ronald Reagan in his rise and it would be easy to do what […]

America is not a charity that exists to make Donald Trump rich Tuesday night at the Center for Popular Democracy, Elizabeth Warren gave the longform version of the argument she’ll be making against Donald Trump. If it were a mixtape of her best rhymes, here’s the standout verse: For all we know he could be paying zero taxes today. And […]

All hands on deck The only thing I hate more than arguing with people online is arguing with people I generally agree with… anywhere. This isn’t just because I’m a terrible debater who tends to break out into fits and mascara-laden tears when anyone does anything but pat my head or offer me a hand massage. The point of most […]

Why it still matters that you subsidize Trump’s lifestyle The last time Donald Trump released his personal income taxes, they revealed that he paid zero, nothing, nada. “The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision […]

If you follow this blog as closely as you should, you know it’s been more than 229 days since “Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has known about the poisoning of Flint’s drinking water with lead.” Furthermore you know that “During that time, ZERO lead water lines have been removed through the efforts of his administration.” Eclectablog’s publisher Chris Savage updates this […]

But it probably feels like a tax increase because may not have paid taxes in a decades Donald Trump’s move to the center has begun, the press insisted on Sunday. So far this tactical shift has included attacking Rosie O’Donnell again, spending Mother’s Day insisting that women have it easier than men and babbling about his economic plans. Basically, it’s […]

Get ready. The pearls are going to get sweaty. The clutching over every perceived misstep that Hillary Clinton makes will be non-stop as every gaffe is escalated into a five-alarm fire — and for good reason. Democrats could easily blow this. And, even more importantly, the press will do everything it can to make it seem as it Trump really […]

The GOP — and the press — need to pretend Trump can win, which is why Rasmussen exists Tonight, it happens. Unless the polls are wrong, a guy who has called for the deportations of families of U.S. citizens — including the actual U.S. citizen — will become the presumptive GOP nominee. And as soon as that happens, most of […]

Republicans want to forget the man who willed them their path to obstruction Last week, the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in American history admitted to being a child molester — unless you believe Dennis Hastert’s lawyer’s claim that a “groin rub” is not abuse. This event slipped into the torrent of history with almost no consideration or […]

A new electoral map projection from Morning Consult shows Hillary Clinton crushing Ted Cruz and Donald Trump but getting crushed by John Kasich. Here’s her versus Trump: Cruz: Kasich: The logic behind this is that Kasich is supposed to be a stand-in for the “generic Republican” candidate, which makes some sense. He’s barely known and Hillary Clinton has several Air […]