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Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future

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So many things to clean up starting January. A Josh Rogin piece at WaPo suggests that progressives will be sidelined in a Biden-Harris foreign policy. ‘Democratic muscular liberalism’ is more rebranding for the same centrism that often supported making wars last longer and often with less satisfying outcomes, despite multilateralism and...

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  • August 16, 2020
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Trump claims “Democrats will abolish the suburbs”, religion, and something, something

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In his latest screed, Trump made the usual nonsense claims, hoping to gain support from independents who might be afraid of PoC and poor people. Because no one’s heard of the FHA, Trump wants people in McMansions to vote for him, even if his claims about higher home prices is more about...

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  • July 29, 2020
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Announcing a vaccine in October will not be surprising – surviving Trump after November will be

Peter Nicholas throws cold water on the gaslight that is building up, anticipating stunts galore before November’s election day. Jobless numbers, 151,000 dead, and basic incompetence could still be tolerable for a “majority”, considering the faults in the US election system. Too many stupid things can still happen. GOTV. “If Trump...

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  • July 29, 2020
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Notes from the Silly Season: COVID and Trump's weird gait

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Trump's plague ship of state runs aground on the sand bar of the DNC platform committee because intra-party division may yet disrupt party solidarity.  A month out from the Democratic National Convention, the party continues to be pulled in opposing directions by its progressive and corporate wings. While presumptive nominee Joe...

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  • July 13, 2020
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ME-Sen: The New Republic, “How the Media Created the 'Moderate' Susan Collins (R)”

The New Republic has a new piece out about how the media is responsible for creating the myth that U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) is a “moderate”: To portray politics as “political theater,” reporters need players. And for more than a decade, Collins has been cast as a dutiful moderate,...

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  • March 16, 2020
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“no more 2016s” counter-revolution must not lapse into reactionary thinking, even if it has

President Donald Trump held a meeting at the White House with several lawmakers to talk about gun control. At the roundtable, Trump bashed the officers in Florida who apparently failed to stop Nikolas Cruz from killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The Republican, who previously stated he would have rushed to the school to save the students, said law enforcers should have taken the “shooter’s guns away whether they had the right or not.”

Trump represents a vestigial Reagan revolution, if not a fascist revolt beyond St. Ronnie, moving the media frame closer to autocratic dictator now ready to manipulate a pandemic into a looming recession.  It is time to end Trump’s reign of terror even if the standard bearer might not resemble the necessary...

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  • March 4, 2020
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Politico wedgies the left: “don't tase us, bro'”

The usual overgeneralizations apply as Politico tries to separate liberals from whatever adherents to the left of that position are calling themselves. They’ve chosen Jacobin as this week’s strawman to separate Sanders Democrats from Warren Democrats. As the 2020 campaign has unfolded, Warren has, if anything, tacked toward Bernie, embracing “Medicare...

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  • December 9, 2019
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Make no mistake, centrism is an ideology and it has consequences

I don’t play chess but if I did, I am sure I would equate today’s politics with three-dimensional chess. And in the game, the middle class and the poor are likely to be ill-prepared to win. Centrism has powerful allies. It must be repeated ad-nauseam, the American political game is...

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  • December 8, 2019
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what if we aren't Godunov to stop them

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Russian thumbs have been on the scales as well as on the screens. Only willful ignorance keeps so many usefully idiotic assets still in power. In which I think I understand. The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia State https://t.co/wAe7doaUrD — masha gessen (@mashagessen) January 31, 2019 A study of how...

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  • November 30, 2019
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I think this Conservative caller to my radio show is a canary in the coal mine.

She's on the Right and yearning for this type of dialogue, the real silent majority

It is clear to me from my experience in my own community, people who stumble onto my radio show Politics Done Right, and from a recently attended Bridge Alliance Conference that the fever is breaking. People yearning for dialogue need a path to spaces. Many on the Right are open to dialogue like...

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  • November 20, 2019
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Buttigieg TEA Party meeting is positive. It’s his centrism that’s fatal to middle-class

Pete Buttigieg is getting a lot of flak for meeting with the Tea Party-affiliated group Citizens for Common Sense. I have a different take on it. Pete Buttigieg engaging the TEA Party back in 2010 was a good thing. Progressives should not be upset at that behavior but of who he has...

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  • November 19, 2019
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This blue-collar worker illustrates why a centrist just won’t do.

A blue-collar worker, Mike, who called into my show Politics Done Right should touch every single person who listens to him. One can hear the pain and loss of resolve in his voice. To this guy, the centrism & “stability” of the last 30+ years failed him and most. Exasperated Blue-Collar worker...

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  • September 19, 2019
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Democratic Presidential News: John Delaney Campaign on Life Support?

John who?  He’s one of the guys taking up space on the stage during the first Democratic Presidential debate.  And it appears that his campaign aides have asked him to drop out of the race: On July 9, John Delaney's senior team sat him down and told him to drop out...

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  • July 19, 2019
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Despite His Faults, Gary Hart Has Some Sage Advice For Centrists.

I was for Gary Hart back when first ran for president in 1984.  To be honest, I was an enthusiastic backer, and I looked forward to his next try in 1988.  Then, he self destructed with his reckless private behavior with Donna Rice.   Think about it.  Having an affair could...

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  • July 13, 2019
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Let Me See If Got This Straight About Diaries On Presidential Democratic Candidates…

According to some of the comments on Daily Kos, there are multiple issues with regards to several of the diaries on the presidential Democratic candidates.  Let me see if I can summarize and address some of the reocurring comments: There is Biden bias on Daily Kos. Instead of “bashing” any...

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  • July 6, 2019
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“Where have you gone, Joe Centrist? America Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You!”

Since the first set of Democratic Presidential Debates, it’s been a rocky road for centrists.  The heavy weight champ of centrism, Joe Biden, took some hits.  And while some Biden supporters have been saying, “Well, it was just one poll!,” subsequent polls have shown that Biden has lost some steam.  And...

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  • July 3, 2019
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It's NOT Hatred of Biden That Drives My Opposition to His Presidential Campaign.

My opposition to Biden is not based upon hatred.  I’m seeing Biden supporters on Daily Kos throwing that charge around lately in the comments section.   I’ve even seen some complaints that anti-Biden Democrats would actually prefer Trump over Biden.  And it is always repeated as a mantra that anti-Biden Democrats...

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  • June 29, 2019
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Democratic Moderates Owning Their Mistakes? So E.J. Dionne Says.

E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote a recent column that covers the recent Third Way meeting in Charleston, SC.  There is the usual blather from the attendees who describe themselves as “moderates” against leftists in the Democratic Party.  But Dionne goes on to take some quotes from Third Way President Jon Cowan...

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  • June 20, 2019
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I Do Not Think We Need To Panic Yet About Howard Schultz.

Zach Carter at Huffington Post has a good write up about Howard Schultz is stuck in the 90’s, and I think what is outlined by Carter is why we should not panic about Schultz running for president. Schultz is trashing what he calls “free health care” promised by the extreme...

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  • January 29, 2019
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Alice Rivlin's defense of “centrists” is a case study of myopia and denialism.

I bear no particular grudge against Alice M. Rivlin.  She appears to have led a fine life of public service, and, as discussed below, considers herself a “moderate Democrat.”  She is the type of moderate Democrat who was a member of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission – and so I disagree...

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  • March 8, 2018
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