Tag / GOP
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Dummymandering: How Partisan Gerrymanders Could Backfire In 2018
It is no secret that political parties draw congressional district lines to benefit themselves. However, this November there are two states in which this gerrymandering could backfire on each party. Recent political trends and unexpected demographic shifts have changed the makeup of districts in many states since the district lines were drawn in 2010. This…
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Eviction Notice: The GOP House Member Most Likely To Lose This November
With the 2018 midterms only months away, Democrats are in a decent position to take back the House of Representatives from the GOP for the first time since 2010. Democrats’ chances of winning the lower chamber are boosted by the redistricting in Pennsylvania (after the state Supreme Court ruled their congressional districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered…
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The Last True Conservative
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to repeal Obamacare, more officially known as the Affordable Care Act or by the acronym “ACA,” over 50 times since its passage. Two separate Republican presidential nominees – Mitt Romney and Donald Trump – and countless potential Representatives and Senators campaigned, and in many cases won, on promises…
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Screw the Discourse
For roughly the past six months, I’ve been telling everyone I know to listen to the socialist podcast Chapo Trap House. I’ve done this partially to annoy people, but mostly because it’s great, equal parts incisive and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Many of my more moderate friends—and certainly my conservative ones—will be skeptical. Rapidly increasing partisanship has…
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The Democrats’ Problems For 2018
The 2018 Midterms present the best opportunity for the Democratic Party to take back the House since they lost it in 2010. Trump is a historically unpopular President, history is on the Democrats’ side as the opposing party in a midterm election, and Democratic grassroots activism has skyrocketed. In theory, taking the 24 seats they…
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The Hangover
God, the last few weeks have sucked. Since November 8 – the day a quarter of Americans chose to put in the White House an ill-tempered, small-fingered proto-fascist with so little self-control his staff has to hide his phone to stanch his proclivity for digital diarrhea – the media has self-cannibalized, asking how a man…
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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…
