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…
I’m getting a little tired of the wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on the Left. Enough woe. Let’s talk action. First, what truths might we hold self-evident about Mr. Trump? He cares more about his brand than anything else, more than money, more than power. It’s totemic…
For this voter, Tuesday night was a gut punch. No, a punch to the middle followed by a two- handed wham up the jaw. Not only did Donald Trump become President; but also, Republicans got control of every branch of government! It’s the stuff of nightmares for this card-carrying Democratic…
Today a history of victimization can be used to confer automatic legitimacy on a group, and to found a claim for special treatment. In turn, claimant victims are tempted to exaggerate. It can be rhetorically useful to magnify the degree of oppression experienced by one’s forbears, the better to secure the fruits…
I’ve been investing in and following the stock market for almost 35 years now. By the mid-1990s, twenty years ago, I was married, with a family portfolio worth over $100,000, and a well-established daily routine of reading about each day’s stock market action in the morning newspaper. I read stock…