I don’t want to overstate the importance of all of these moves. Some of this is simply political posturing, with Democratic politicians seeing that the wind is blowing against ICE right now and acting accordingly. They might backtrack from these stances, as they did when momentum around police reform dampened a few years ago. Even […]
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The EEOC’s chair, Andrea Lucas, who first joined the agency as a commissioner after being nominated by Trump in 2020, filed a discrimination charge against Nike in 2024 under President Biden, when the commission still had a Democratic majority. Last year, Trump fired the agency’s chair, Charlotte Burrows, and appointed Lucas to the position. In […]
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With Trump in office, those board members joined with Trump appointees at the Department of Justice and the Youngkin administration to shift the university right. Trump appointees threatened to cut federal funding from UVA unless it ended diversity and inclusion programs and made other changes: the same playbook they used against schools across the country. […]
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Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]
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RTOs are a product of the power industry deregulation of the 1990s and 2000s. Outside of the Southeast and most of the West, states, with encouragement from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, restructured their power systems to replace publicly regulated rates with private competition wherever feasible. The theory was that rivalry between utilities […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos were much more supportive of President Trump in 2024 than they were of past Republican presidential candidates. But exit polls […]
Read MoreHere is a clear and simple way for Democrats to transform their party’s brand to appeal to working Americans who are being crushed by high costs and angry at a system that feels rigged against them. Because, as electorally compelling as an anti-AI position is today, it will become politically essential in the years ahead—for […]
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Some pundits and consultants saw this as a statement on the effectiveness of this as a wedge issue rather than as a reflection of a poorly run Democratic campaign and declining poll numbers for President Biden. Trump leaned even further into this strategy in 2024, and the same people attributed the outcome to these ads, […]
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In 2024, the Republican attack line was that Democrats were too “woke” and focused on issues like transgender athletes in school sports. These issues are not atop most voters’ lists of concerns, but Republicans have gotten very good over the past decade at raising the salience of whatever issues—often cultural ones—they think will be to […]
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If only—it looks like Sliwa’s number dropped a lot, and it was like a two-man race. It appears Zohran’s gonna be about 50 and Cuomo around 42. So what do you make of—so the polling was mostly like 45, 35, 15. So what do you make of the results? Shephard: I think that there was […]
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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the New York City mayoral race—in which he broke 50 percent against two serious opponents—also illustrates the point. Mamdani’s campaign was famously focused on affordability and costs. But as I’ve detailed, he also went hard at Trump’s authoritarian abuses of power while running the most explicitly pro-immigrant and even pro-cosmopolitan […]
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“We should start, tonight, with ‘the country’s open,’ congratulations, then we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass all of the things we want to pass to make our elections secure,” Trump continued, calling for an end to the government shutdown. “All we want is voter ID, you go […]
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Source: ANGELINA KATSANIS / Getty Welp, if Democrats didn’t have Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day” blaring out of their stereos after Tuesday night’s election results, well, fine, they’re just not fans of ’90s hip hop — but, yes, it was a good night for democracy. Last night, Democrats swept key elections across the […]
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Now: Inside a normal White House, they’d read these tea leaves and say, “Geez, we’d better cool it.” But this president will of course double down. Triple or quadruple down. You think it’s in Stephen Miller’s nature to moderate? You think it’s in Trump’s? Of course not—they’ll just get more extreme. Remember: All that ICE […]
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Even looking to the 2028 presidential contest, the closest analogy to 2024, so much has changed. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who in the period immediately following the 2024 election was criticizing progressives and having Trump-friendly figures on his podcast, spent the last few months selling his plan to gerrymander California’s House seats to make up […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrat Abigail Spanberger handily won the Virginia gubernatorial race, as was expected. In something of a surprise, New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill, another Democrat, also won comfortably. Those two races were perhaps the most important […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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But the larger landscape suggests that the establishment has a paucity of ideas and energy while the left populists are overflowing with both. As Cohen noted, establishment figures like to fixate on the rough edges of insurgent candidates, but it’s not like the figures they have rallied around in recent years—Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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Alas, the national party leadership, notably Barack Obama, may never summon their cortisol. Over the weekend, at a rally for Spanberger, Obama, low-key in shirtsleeves, accused Trump tepidly of “craziness.” Craziness, got it? Like a rambunctious frisbee game. Obama’s body language was devoted, as it often is, to telling the crowd to settle down, cool […]
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“No one should confuse unity and unanimity within the party. We are a big tent party. We’ve got many different ways of being a Democrat,” Martin said when I asked him about a lack of party congruency on more left-leaning, economic populist policies like universal health care and childcare. “We’ve got conservative Democrats, we’ve got […]
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“No one should confuse unity and unanimity within the party. We are a big-tent party. We’ve got many different ways of being a Democrat,” Martin said, when I asked him about a lack of party congruency on more left-leaning, economic populist policies like universal health care and childcare. “We’ve got conservative Democrats, we’ve got centrists, […]
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Other October news items may influence how voters cast their ballot, although their impact is likely to be smaller. The Democratic attorney general candidate, Jay Jones, has been dented by a scandal surrounding his sending of violent texts a decade ago. Polling shows that the contest with the current sitting attorney general, Republican Jason Miyares, […]
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Clicking the donate button sends viewers to a WinRed page, a fundraising platform for the Republican Party, with Earle-Sears’s campaign logo at the top. A donation plea reads, “George Soros and Hollywood liberals are all stacking BIG money against me and my team in this must-win race. Please donate even just $10 to help me […]
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Sadly, Democrats may not be able to catch up to Republicans in terms of gerrymandering, even though the party is rightly trying to. Many blue states have redistricting commissions and also courts and legal precedents that discourage drawing maps that strongly favor one party. Those are good policies in a world of normal politics. I […]
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Mamdani’s focus on New York’s affordability crisis is as close as these three candidates get to offering something that the party should adopt universally. It’s simple and brilliant, as is the way he talks about it. When he talks about the working class, he actually sounds like he means it: “I fight for working people. […]
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The Democratic gubernatorial nominees in Virginia and New Jersey, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill respectively, both have a background in national security. This identity was critical during the 2018 midterm elections, which saw a wave of women elected into office. Citing Sherrill’s race, Dittmar noted that Democrats generally speaking are viewed as less tough than […]
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