Hillary Clinton’s backstage conversation, captured on video last week, with leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement is revealing, captivating, and so telling about the way she thinks about politics, campaigning, how to sync up movements with policies, and just in general gives more insight into her method of operating than anything I seen in a long time. Worth your time to watch.
Since Donald Trump came out Sunday against birth right citizenship, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham have followed suit.
The big takeaway from the new CNN poll is that while Trump continues to lead he is now also the top second choice of GOP voters nationwide.
Interesting how anti-abortion activists are grappling with Trump’s switch from pro-choice to pro-life, especially now that he’s a force in the GOP primary.
With all the commentary about the Iran, it is worth noting that there is an argument against the deal. It’s just not one that most opponents feel able or comfortable making publicly. It goes something like this.
As we move closer to next month’s vote on the Iran nuclear deal, I wanted to note some parts of the story that are not getting sufficient attention in the mainstream press. Even in Israel, where the the P5+1 deal is quite unpopular, there is increasing concern, at least among elites, at just how far Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to go in damaging US-Israel ties in his war against the Obama administration over the Iran deal. As JJ Goldberg aptly puts it, the campaign of incitement and maliciously phony charges of anti-Semitism against the White House are “effectively turning American Jews into Netanyahu’s cannon fodder” in war against Obama.
Too true.
Somewhat like the years of anti-Obama incitement and fomenting of The Crazy, which helped birth the Trump phenomenon that is now eating the GOP alive, the birther bacillus has now escaped the GOP biohazard lab and turned on four current Republican presidential candidates.
I feel like I’ve written this post four or five times now. But I just cannot get over or even fully get my head around the way that Donald Trump’s mere presence in the race has this power to drive everyone on the Republican side of the aisle insane. I don’t mean just that they don’t like that he’s in the lead and creating campaign havoc. I mean forgetting who they are, getting into fights with each other, and just generally losing their minds.
It’s like one of these classic Star Trek episodes where some malevolent non-corporeal force is driving everyone mad or putting everyone at each other’s throats for some unknown reason. But it’s not non-corporeal at all. It’s extremely corporeal, more than you and me. It’s Donald Trump.