Tag / 2016
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Why the 2016 Election Was Not the Worst Election in American History
I generally despise using generalizations without near-encyclopedic citations. However, it must be stated: the 2016 election received universal criticism. Nobody beamed with pride at either set of candidates. Many Americans loathed both tandems and gritted their teeth at the ballot box. If an American did vote for one of the two sides enthusiastically, they firmly…
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No, Everything Won’t Be OK
The election of Donald Trump to the most powerful office in the world is cataclysmic. I won’t speak to the physical insecurity that many Americans and people around the world are feeling—many women, racial and religious minorities, denizens of the Middle East and the Baltics and Central and South America. I won’t speak for environmentalists,…
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Late-Night Election
On what feels like a daily basis, unbelievable lines are thrown out by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. From “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and I wouldn’t lose voters,” to more cringe-worthy lines like “basket of deplorables,” this election season has produced incredibly ridiculous political rhetoric. It’s comical—in a terrifying way. It…
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Economic Policy: Putting “Magic” in the Campaign
The Oct. 9 debate between the economic advisers to Trump and Clinton may have lacked allegations of sexual harassment, threats of jailing the opposing party’s nominee, and a television audience numbering in the tens of millions, but it did contain allegations of “magic” and plenty of wild hand gesticulations. Early in the afternoon on Oct.…
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Donald Trump Accidentally Attacked by Student Coalition After Being Mistaken as a Clown
Sunday night, millions of Americans tuned in to watch Donald Trump blunder and fib through another presidential debate. The second debate, which was hosted at Washington University, was arguably not the most perilous part of the Republican nominee’s St. Louis visit, however. An hour after closing remarks, Donald Trump was mistaken as another clown in…
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Here Come the Clydesdales
Eight massive Clydesdales strapped into black and gold harnesses adorned with red and white ribbons towered over a crowd at Brookings Hall this afternoon. The world-famous Anheuser Busch Clydesdales are no new site to St. Louis, in fact, Anheuser Busch’s main stable is just twenty minutes away, but today they galloped onto campus for the…
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The Death of the GOP
When I first wrote about the presidential election last year, I was optimistic. I saw a field full of young, diverse, and qualified Republican candidates, with almost all of them capable of beating likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, a candidate who suffered from low favorability. Looking back on it now, I can see that I…
