Donald Trump’s effort to rebrand the GOP as a white nationalist party seems to be going splendidly.
This amusing BBC write-up of how enchanted the French are by the American male archetype may be unintentionally revealing of Brits’ own American man-crush:
VP Biden holds meeting with Elizabeth Warren as he mulls entering presidential race.
Tomorrow will mark nine years since my father died, suddenly and unexpectedly at 68. I took two weeks off from TPM and when I came back I wrote this piece about his death and who he was.
Is it getting this bad? Flailing in the polls and struggling to find a rationale for his candidacy, is Jeb Bush suggesting he may be black? Judd Legum at ThinkProgress points out that the Jeb SuperPac ‘Right to Rise’ has just blanketed Iowa with a mailer in which Jeb’s head appears to be photoshopped on to a black man’s body.
You can see the tweet here.
It took Trump two days to condemn a hate crime his Mexican-bashing apparently inspired. Two days. Right out of the box his response was yeah, that’s a bummer but my supporters are “passionate” about making America great again. Two days. He’s not responsible for what these thugs did. His response, however, was and is deeply revealing.
There’s no question that the Clinton email ‘scandal’ has become a major issue for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Not that it should necessarily but it has. It’s the focus of negative press stories that appear clearly to have at least helped pull down her favorability numbers nationwide. And yet at least the ‘classification’ aspect of it all turns on an administrative tug of war which occurred long after the emails were sent: should some information that was not considered classified at the time now be re-designated as classified? And if that happens, should Hillary be in trouble for discussing classified information on her personal email server by some sort of time warp logic because some government officials now think these documents should be classified differently.
If you’ve been paying attention to this pseudo-scandal you’re probably aware of all this. But now Reuters comes into the mix with an “exclusive” which dresses up the same basic issue in new clothes.
So in addition to being evil and civically awful, ending birthright citizenship would be an administrative nightmare that would actually require vastly more intrusive and complicated immigration bureaucracy and laws.