Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential election. That’s a fact. Why she lost is not a matter of fact but of interpretation. Maybe she screwed up. It’s comforting to attribute all life outcomes to individual choice and effort. She should have made more appearances in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Shoulda, woulda,…
Donald Frump began his campaign inveighing against Mexicans, promising to build a wall, and threatening to abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement, in place now for some twenty years. Punitive tariffs have been threatened on Mexican exports. Nothing hidden or covert there! After Frump won, the Mexican stock market…
I had a sleepless night November 8th. I went to bed after 12:00 California time, knowing all was lost to Trump, and writhing the more, knowing that markets had plunged across the globe. Too late! No way to get out. No way to preserve my little wealth before the tsunami…
From one perspective, everything that could go wrong in the 2016 election, did go wrong. So let’s play out that string. It appears that Jill Stein will be able to get a recount of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. What’s the worst outcome imaginable? A Republican registrar in Wisconsin didn’t bother…
Hillary Clinton won only 20 states, plus the District of Columbia, causing her to lose the Electoral College even as she won the popular vote. However, as noted in my prior post, the states Clinton won account for a disproportionate share of millionaires, and of professionals with taxable income between…
They won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore. Oh sure, Representative Jason Chaffetz can haul Clinton before his committee, or Attorney General Rudolf Giuliani can appoint a special prosecutor. The mainstream American voter loves to see winners kick losers while they are down—NOT! An important reminder for liberals, especially…
This weekend, in an understandable bit of schadenfreude, a front page article in the Wall Street Journal noted, “Republican America is now so vast that a traveler could drive 3,600 miles across the continent, from Key West, Fla., to the Canadian border crossing at Porthill, Idaho, without ever leaving a state…
As I’ve argued before, Trump is vulnerable to assaults on his brand. It does no good to hyperventilate and label him an authoritarian, or a crazy loon. Those charges support the political element of his brand, bolstering his reputation as a guy that can go to Washington and make a…
I search for silver linings after the election of Trump. If you’d prefer to rend your garments and wail piteously, read no further. I voted for Hillary Clinton. One misgiving was the prospect of defending her—defending my Democratic party—against the unceasing invective sure to follow her election, invective trained and…
Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss to Donald Trump demands explanation, in the way nature abhors a vacuum. The pundit class rushes to fill the void. An explanation preferred by some—especially among older white male columnists: she lost “the white working class.” Before that gambit freezes into conventional wisdom, let’s take it…