America’s psychological divisions foretell a toxic era of partisan gridlock The political blow to the Democratic Party following its surprise loss to Donald Trump has been cataclysmic. Rather than holding the presidency and retaking the Senate as was expected, America’s ruling party finds itself shut out of power in every branch of the federal government and at the state and local levels, too. By this [...]
Who owns America? Why Donald Trump will lose – but not by much To put it mildly, by any terrestrial standards Donald Trump has not had a good week. Be it seeming to threaten Hillary Clinton with assassination or stubbornly refusing to back down on his Oliver Stone-like claim that President Obama is the founder of Isis, Trump has stretched the already fraying bonds of American credulity to breaking point. [...]
