Adele M. Stan, Twelve Ways Gary Johnson Is a Hardcore Right-Winger. read
Daniel Schultz, PEW SURVEY SHOWS WE SHOULD LOOK AT RACE, NOT JUST RELIGION IN 2016 ELECTORATE. read
George Lakoff, Thwimpie – A Spoiled Brat Named Little Donnie Thwimp. read
Justin Miller,, Scott Walker Leaks Could Force Supreme Court to Confront Dark Money. read
Anthony J. Gaughan, Explaining Donald Trump’s Shock Election Win
Five factors behind America’s staggering decision “Above all, the 2016 election made clear that America is a nation deeply divided along racial, cultural, gender and class lines.” “ read
Andrea Gawrylewski assembles for Scientific American reactions from Richard Dawkins and many other prominent scientists on Trump’s win. read
Noam Chomsky, Trump in the White House. “It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their history – whether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we know – and are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster. ….The campaign itself was remarkable in its avoidance of issues, and media commentary generally complied, keeping to the concept that true objectivity means reporting accurately what is “within the beltway” but not venturing beyond. ,,,I don’t think one can answer with any confidence. Trump is too unpredictable. There are too many open questions. What we can say is that popular mobilization and activism, properly organized and conducted, can make a large difference.
And we should bear in mind that the stakes are very large, as I remarked at the outset. read
Chris Hedges, It’s Worse Than You Think. “Our capitalist democracy ceased to function more than two decades ago. We underwent a corporate coup carried out by the Democratic and Republican parties. There are no institutions left that can authentically be called democratic. Trump and Hillary Clinton in a functioning democracy would have never been presidential nominees. The long and ruthless corporate assault on the working class, the legal system, electoral politics, the mass media, social services, the ecosystem, education and civil liberties in the name of neoliberalism has disemboweled the country. It has left the nation a decayed wreck. We celebrate ignorance. We have replaced political discourse, news, culture and intellectual inquiry with celebrity worship and spectacle.” Hedges remembers being told, in 2010, by Noam Chomsky: ‘What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer: We have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens, it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power.’ read
Diane Ravitch, When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? Reviews books by Samuel Abrams and Mercedes Schneider. “For the past fifteen years, the nation’s public schools have been a prime target for privatization. Unbeknownst to the public, those who would privatize the public schools call themselves “reformers” to disguise their goal. Who could be opposed to “reform”?….We invest in public education because it is an investment in the future of society. ….Whatever its faults, the public school system is a hallmark of democracy, doors open to all. It is an essential part of the common good. It must be improved for all who attend and paid for by all. Privatizing portions of it, as Trump wants, will undermine public support and will provide neither equity nor better education.” read
R. Joseph Hoffmann, PARADIGMATIC UNSUITABILITY: AN INDICTMENT OF DONALD J. TRUMP “Just as no one on the Democratic side managed to say that Trump’s definition of greatness was an absurdity because it was nothing more than a crabbed and nostalgic vision of little America, they also never managed to come up with a coherent list of reasons supporting the unfit-to-govern meme they tried to sell, preferring instead to itemize his daily wowsers, tweets and untruths as though the American people are smart enough to judge for themselves and can make the distinction between moral reprobacy and an email server. But as we know from the outcome, they can’t.” read
Brad Reed, Michael Moore’s tough words for liberals: ‘You weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans’ read
Jim Wallis, Time for Healing. And Resistance. read
outfront.org, Back to News. MN LGBTQ organization reaction read
uusc.org, Now More than Ever read
Brad Reed, Michael Moore’s tough words for liberals: ‘You weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans’ read
Jim Wallis, Time for Healing. And Resistance. read
outfront.org, Back to News. MN LGBTQ organization reaction read
uusc.org, Now More than Ever read
Irissa Cisternino, Trump’s Share Of The White Evangelical Vote Was Huge. “According to Pew, pretty much the only faith group in Trump’s corner were white Christians. Overall, Protestants, Catholics and other Christian faiths supported the Republican candidate, with white Catholics supporting Trump by a margin of 60 percent. All other faith groups supported Hillary Clinton by a large margin.
But what was particularly striking is that white, born-again evangelicals backed Trump in droves, with a whopping 81 percent casting a ballot for the real estate mogul.” read
Native American News, Native American Council Offers Amnesty to 220 Million “Undocumented Whites” Living in the U.S. (“Satire”) read
Tweet Email, counterpunch.org, The U.S. Elections: End of Empire? A View from Haiti read
Tweet Email, counterpunch.org, Death of the Liberal Class? Death to the Liberal Class! read
Tweet Email, counterpunch.org, Roaming Charges: When the Pterodactyls Came Home to Roost read
Sean Illing, The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states read
theintercept.com, 2012 and Democrats’ Blame-Everyone-Else Posture Now read
Drake Baer, Two Big Lessons a Star Sociologist Learned From Studying Trump Country for 5 Years (Arlie Hochschild) read
Some of the stunning similarities between Richard Nixon and Donald Trump read
Amy Benjamin, Why did Trump Win? A Post-Mortem on the Post-Mortem read
James Petras, Presidential Elections: Myths and Deceits read
Brian Tashman, League Of The South Hails Trump, Wants ‘No Mercy’ Towards ‘Jews, Minorities And Anti-White Whites’ read
Adele M. Stan, A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables read
Alexander George Theodoridis, The Hyper-Polarization of America read
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Election 2016: The World Was Watching – With Disgust read
Joachim Hagopian, Who is Donald Trump? Why the US Globalist Elites Dread President-Elect Donald Trump. Fearing He’ll Lead People to Revolt against New World Order read
Rodrigue Tremblay, Political Earthquake: The Trump Revolution in The United States. The New President’s Herculean Task Ahead read
This Wasn’t a Working-Class Revolt. It Was a White Revolt. read
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class read
prri.org, Correlation Between White Christians, Trump Win in Key States read
Tweet Email, counterpunch.org, The Revenge of Class and the Death of the Democratic Party read
theintercept.com, White Supremacists Celebrate Trump’s Election, Call for Ban on “Non-European” Immigratio read
Ben Kamisar, Pollsters go back to drawing board read
Brad Reed, Noam Chomsky: Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a ‘bad mistake’ read
Paul Craig Roberts, [Reflects on Election] read
Frank Newport, National Polling Accurately Nails Popular Vote read
Thomas Byrne Edsall, Why Trump Really Won: It’s Not Just Race, Gender and Class read
Portside.org, What About the Black Working Class? read
wjastore, Why the Democrats Lost read
Martin Marty on “A Poem for the 2016 Election” read
Naomi Klein, Trump Defeated Clinton, Not Women read
Brandi Miller, To White Evangelicals, a Long Overdue Dear John Letter read
Lambert Strether, Two More Myths About Clinton’s Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked read
Donald Trump and “The Deep State” – Vote Rigging by Both Sides… Key Appointments By Peter Koenig read
Slavoj Zizek, Trump Against the Machine: How Political Elites Failed read
Claire Bernish, Dear Neoliberal Democrats: Your Blind Support of Criminal Clinton Handed the Presidency to Trump read
David Roberts, Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees read
Jacob Lupfer, The last hurrah of white Christian America read
Robert P. Jones, The Rage of White, Christian America read
Tess Owen, Why some evangelical women voted for Trump and why some didn’t read
Lambert Strether, Three Myths About Clinton’s Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked read
Nick Turse, Tomgram: Nick Turse, America, the Election, and the Dismal Tide read
The Editors, thepointmag.com, Rude Awakening:Election 2016 read
John Harris, The reasons for Trump were also the reasons for Brexit read
Jan Herman, The Revenge of the Mediocre . . . read
portside.org, Labor Leaders Deserve Their Share of the Blame for Donald Trump’s Victory read
Paul Harvey, Did the “Real America” Elect Trump? read
MSNBC, Why Pres. Obama voters went for Trump read
Conor Friedersdorf, The Evangelical Reckoning Over Donald Trump read
Greg Palast, The Election Was Stolen – Here’s How read
Jonathan Swan, How Trump won with evangelicals — and won big read
wjastore, Trump and the Art of the Con read
John Pilger: ‘The Truth Is… There Was No One To Vote For’ watch
Robert Parry, Why Trump Won and Why Clinton Lost read
Paul Craig Roberts, White Supremacy Elected Trump? read
Russ Martens and Pam Martens, New WikiLeaks Email: Podesta May Have Cost Democrats the Election With Push for Obama Legacy read
Greenwald on “Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit” read
Glenn Greenwald: Bernie Sanders Would Have Been a Stronger Candidate Against Donald Trump read
Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Trump Win? Blame the Failed Policies of the Democratic Party read
Paul Craig Roberts, The Working Class Won the Election? What Kind of Trump Administration? read
Robert Parry. Why Trump Won; Why Clinton Lost read
Stephen Lendman, Thankfully, It’s Not Madam President… Hold the Cheers for Donald Trump… read
Joan C. Williams, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class read
Micah Uetricht, Labor Leaders Deserve Their Share of the Blame for Donald Trump’s Victory read
Trent Lapinski, Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won read
Nate Silver, Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump read
Joshua Green, Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right read
Barack Obama, My Liberal University Cemented My Vote for Trump read
Lauren Markoe, White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump read
wjastore, Understanding Donald Trump’s Appeal read
David Lindorff, Why No Leftist, Progressive or Liberal Should Vote for Hillary Clinton read
Agence Global, The Election is Rigged After All read
Michel Chossudovsky, Will She Make it to the White House? Waning Mainstream Media Support for Hillary Clinton. read
Rebecca Theodore: The 2016 elections and the cost of democracy. read |