It deserves it Here’s a crazy idea: When your party is on the verge of nominating a white supremacist hero for president, maybe don’t blame the black guy for that. I understand the urge. You’re looking at a ballot that has Donald J. Trump’s actual name on it. You’re looking at polls that show him leading your party’s best and […]

Donald Trump has a good chance of winning Michigan. The GOP primary that is. And that’s the last time — barring complete disaster, near Apocalypse or freak Canadian Godzilla invasion  — he’ll ever have a good chance of winning Michigan. Here’s what the NBC/Wall St. Journal/Marist poll found when it polled hypothetical match-ups between Trump and the likely Democratic nominees: […]

Presidents generally get too much or too little credit for job creation. “In general, presidents and their policies matter much less for the economy’s performance than most people imagine,” Paul Krugman recently wrote then noted: The point, however, is that politicians and pundits, especially on the right, constantly insist that presidential policies matter a lot. And Mr. Obama, in particular, […]

What’s the most important thing we’ve learned about the Republican establishment in this primary in which they’ve watched their party leave them for a fling with a 69-year old billionaire? They have no idea what conservatism really is. Sure, they know the basic rules. Cut taxes, absolve polluters, let bankers regulate themselves and let straight white men make all reproductive […]

Let’s begin with a tweet. This is honestly the most delusional thing I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/H4DBai7xmy — Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) March 2, 2016 Your delusion of the day comes from Republican consultant Rick Wilson. Wilson is one of the funnier, smarter and more honest Republicans I follow on Twitter — and I say that knowing my compliments can only hurt […]

Brought to you by your friends in the GOP There’s a good chance that the Republican Primary will essentially end on Super Tuesday and people will stop pretending that Marco Rubio was ever winning by losing. Since Donald Trump easily won the Nevada Caucus, America has been wandering around, bumping into things, wondering if everyone else is in the same […]

History is written by the whiners Is there any hope for the Stimulus? More than seven years after the Recovery Act became law it’s clear to economists that the law improved and possibly saved the economy. But — despite the Herculean or Sisyphean efforts of Mike Grunwald — most people still have no idea what it did. There’s no Hoover […]

If you’ve been following the Democratic primary closely, it probably seems pretty ugly to you. Charges laced with must-Google terms like “Superpredator,” “mass incarceration” and “productivity’s relationship to GDP” touch on real divisions on policy and a reckoning on race necessary to move the progressive movement forward. While discussions about uterus ownership and “Bernie Bros” suggest to me the overblown […]

There’s a court case lingering over the presidential election that could explode in the next few months, and it’s probably not the one you’re thinking of. Yahoo‘s Michael Isikoff reports: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to […]

Yesterday I explained why billion-dollar baby Donald Trump’s boast that he will win Michigan makes almost no sense. Strategist and pontificater Dana Houle added another key point: Michigan has the largest Muslim population of any state. George W. Bush won the Muslim vote in 2000 while losing the state and that population has only grown since then. And Muslim-Americans probably […]

Michigan has been poisoned by this act before On CNN’s State of the Nation, Donald Trump picked New York and Michigan as two blue states as he’ll have a chance of winning if the Republican Party’s immune system continues to fail and the party nominates the most unpopular candidate in recent American history. Trump spoke in Grand Rapids last year […]