Missionary to the Conservatives
This piece is also running today in newspapers in my conservative area, prefaced there by the statement, "I want to share here a piece that has been posted on several liberal websites." And it will run...
View ArticleWe Weren't Living in a Fool's Paradise. America Has Changed.
In a strong post-election piece titled "Farewell, America," on billmoyers.com, Neil Gabler wrote this:If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Big Ugly
So far, the Trump presidency is unfolding in about as horrendous a fashion as one might have feared. But it is premature to conclude that we know just how disastrously this whole Trump era is going to...
View ArticleAsking Trump Voters, Does Truthfulness Matter?
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06).*****************Liberals are debating how to understand the millions of Americans who voted for Trump....
View ArticleTrump Voters: Should We Write Them Off or Try to Bring Them Back from the...
A friend tells me that I'm wasting my time with my efforts to engage the conservatives of my very red congressional District (VA-06), using challenging weekly op/ed pieces in the region's newspapers.He...
View ArticleTrump Voters: Should We Write Them Off or Try to Bring Them Back from the...
(This is the second installment of a discussion begun here.)The first installment of this two-part article argued that the election of Donald Trump demonstrates dramatically that the state of mind of...
View ArticleIs Trump En Route to Violating the Constitution?
This piece is running this week in newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).************On January 20, Donald Trump is scheduled to take the oath of office, swearing to “preserve,...
View ArticleCan "Good" People Support "Evil" Power?
In a comment on my piece, "Trump Voters: Should We Write Them Off or Try to Bring Them Back from the Dark Side," where it appeared on the website Blue Virginia, the host of the site --- Lowell Fled --...
View ArticleCritiquing Democratic Responses To the 2016 Election– Part I
I. The Idea that the Problem Was the Democrats' Abandonment of the White Working ClassOK. No doubt there's some truth to this. No dout, the less educated white working class has reasons to be...
View Article"Oppose Trump on Everything" is a Bad Strategy
II. The Idea that the Democrats Should Oppose Trump on Everything, RegardlessIn the weeks since the election, one major threat of response from liberal quarters has been a call to battle on what might...
View ArticleThe Elector’s Patriotic Duty is to Overturn The Results of the Presidential...
Forgive the roughness and excessive length of the writing here. I would love to have a week to polish and tighten it up. But time is of the essence: the question of what the Electoral College should do...
View ArticleWhy People Feel Devastated by Trump's Election: A Crisis in the Spirit of...
This piece will run in newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).Trump's election to the presidency, while welcomed by some, was devastating news for a great many people. It...
View ArticleHow Should the Media Cover Donald Trump?
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06)******It seems that people in the news media are struggling with the question of how Donald Trump should be...
View ArticleSteve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and the Male Response to Female Beauty
In response to the news that Carrie Fisher had died, Steve Martin shared on Facebook the vivid memory of the impact Ms. Fisher had had on him nearly forty years before (presumably when he’d seen her...
View ArticleA Global Counter to the Global Rise of Fascism
As America enters the Age of Trump, it is important to recognize that what's happening is not just about Trump, and not just about America. Forces kindred to Trump have lately been ascendant around the...
View ArticleRepublicans: Believing the Unbelievable
This piece will be running in newspapers in my very Republican 6th Congressional District.These are unhappy times in America. But of all the distressing news items I’ve come across, the one that...
View ArticleA Time of Darkness, Yes, But the Light is Getting Stronger, Too
It is true that these are dark times. Never before have we had a president so dishonest, so reckless, so arrogant, so lacking in integrity, so indifferent (or worse) to the suffering of other people....
View ArticleChallenging Judiciary Com Chair Bob Goodlatte to Debate: Trump as Threat to...
I intend to pose the following public challenge to Representative Bob Goodlatte (VA-06), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, against whom I ran in 2012.****************************Bob Goodlatte, I...
View ArticleDear Trump Supporters: The Survival of American Democracy May Depend on You
This piece is running in newspapers in my very red congressional district in Virginia (VA-06).*******************************Trump supporters: Uncle Sam needs you.If one could count on politicians to...
View ArticleImpeachment Delayed is America Imperiled
It looks to me increasingly likely that the Trump presidency will end with his removal from office through impeachment (despite the effort of the Republicans to protect him.) The question is, when?The...
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