Dems Must Be Fighting Two 2020 Battles: One to WIN the Election, and One to...
Democrats should understand that this 2020 presidential election is extraordinary in that it requires that they win two battles.They need to fight the usual battle to get the votes at the ballot box...
View ArticleMy Latest Challenge to My Trumpian Neighbors: "What Every Thinking Republican...
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress — against Bob Goodlatte — in...
View ArticleA Third Voice for the Campaign to Defeat Donald Trump: Joe Biden, His VP...
Joe Biden is running as the truly decent and caring guy. There is only so negative that it makes sense for this Democratic presidential candidate to be as he campaigns to replace Donald Trump.On the...
View ArticleHow the Republicans Have Put Themselves on a Path to Self-Destruction
This piece appeared this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************************In 2016, Lindsey Graham, the Republican Senator from South Carolina,...
View ArticleWill American Democracy Survive the Election of 2020?
This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***************************All along, the battle of the 2020 Election has been over whether American...
View ArticleStrategy for the Democrats: Use What Trump DOES To Get the People to See What...
The Biden campaign should be focused, for the most part, on that slice of voters who still might go either way. (I.e. those neither fully committed to supporting Trump nor to opposing him.)And while a...
View ArticleBiden Campaign Song? Maybe Revive the All-Time Greatest
Would it work well? I can make a case either way.“It” would be for Joe Biden’s campaign to reprise the greatest campaign song ever: i.e. to adopt as its own campaign song what FDR adopted for his first...
View ArticleHistory Surprises: The "Unthinkable" Things that Have Arisen on the American...
This piece has recently appeared as a newspaper op/ed in the very red congressional district where I live (VA-06).************************History sometimes brings surprises.The biggest surprise I’ve...
View ArticleLeaving Trump's Base to Trump--to Weaponize Them for Stealing the...
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**********************I recently wrote about the most “unthinkable” thing I’ve witnessed in...
View ArticleWhat Can Be Done to Defeat Trump's Postal Sabotage Gambit?
I keep hearing and reading about what Trump and his accomplices are doing with the Postal Service, and how it threatens our ability to hold the high quality, free and fair election this nation needs...
View ArticleGood News to be Inferred from the Intelligence Report on Foreign Powers and...
In the recent reports about the preferences of Russia and China in the upcoming American presidential election, there is hidden some apparent news that’s important but that seems to have gone...
View ArticleNo, the Polls about People's Concerns about the Election do NOT Demonstrate...
I’ve heard various commentators say that Trump’s efforts to sow doubts about the election show that his campaign 1) to discourage voting and 2) to delegitimize the Election outcome (which Trump claimed...
View ArticleThe Right Leader at the Right Moment: Biden as "the Democratic Churchill"
If you had told me a year and a half ago that I’d be celebrating Joe Biden’s emerging as the nominee out of the Democrats’ election process ,I wouldn’t have believed you.But that’s where I am now.Back...
View ArticleThe Democrats' Extraordinary Convention
This piece will be appearing on Tuesday as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************I’m writing the morning after the culmination of the Democratic...
View ArticleHow Biden Should Campaign: I. Grab His Rightful Share of Attention
Introduction: From what I hear from many friends, and from what I am experiencing myself, this is not an easy time for people who know what’s going on and who care deeply about America’s...
View ArticleHow Biden Should Campaign: II. Inspire the People to Fight and Win the...
A Historical Lesson on Leadership in Times Like Ours(The second in a three-part series.)I introduced this series -- in a piece encouraging the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, to “Grab His Rightful Share...
View ArticleMy Latest Challenge to the Conservatives: "Incontrovertible Truth on the...
This piece will be running this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*****************Is there “systemic racism” in America? That seems to be a point of...
View ArticleIf America Can't Get Rid of this Monstrous Trump Guy, American Democracy is...
I’ve been worrying as much as anybody about what the re-election of Donald Trump would mean for American democracy: watching the brazenness of Trump’s authoritarian perversions of the American system...
View ArticleUse America's Crises to Show America's Stark Choice (Installment III in "How...
[This is the third (and final) installment in my three-part series, conceived in the immediate aftermath of the conventions, attempting to provide useful ideas to the Biden campaign. The first said...
View ArticleAll the Pundits Have Been Saying, "The Race Will Tighten." Why is That?
I don’t get it. For months, as I’ve followed the political news closely, I’ve been hearing people knowledgeable about politics saying — as if it were built into reality, like the force of gravity —...
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