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I have been mulling this over for quite some time,IU Sure, there are some beliefs that we can describe as "conservative": Resistance to taxation and excessive spending Resistance to excessive regulation Resistance to Affirmative Action (which they mistakenly call "DEI.") There is another...

This story - like so many others - makes me think that perhaps our political world might be improved if everyone were somehow "forced" to understand and contemplate a single story involving the current POTUS. The professionals at the Smithsonian are at the top tier of an incredibly competitive...

W.C. Fields: "I hate water, fish f--k in it."

It surely seems as if the GOP is down to just a few core assumptions and strategies: (1) Assume that a large slice of voters are just ignorant. They don't understand how budgets work; they don't understand how inflation works; they have no idea when they are being lied to (2) A large slice...

One of the things I (mostly) appreciated in the old ZZLP was that the place gave me a small window into what MAGA folks believed. [Until that fell apart.] I sort of wonder what MAGA folks actually believe about tariffs.

I look forward to highly informed discussion here

true I am thinking about the convention itself. My goodness, that was beautifully run (except losing James Taylor) Just the timing of folks coming onto the stage etc.

When the heck did the Democratic Party become so organized?

I claim no expertise here. But my sense is that under the broad umbrella of this topic, as it pertains to sports, there are about four categories of people: (1) Some people are simply born with biological realities that are not identical to other boys or girls. Thus,for instance, the...

Well, I think that many comments on this thread illustrate a key point about politics today: In many "controversial" topics we should learn to trust science and medicine and, in a broader sense, expertise., The problem we face today is, in simplest terms, that MAGA people are ignorant. They...

A bit of history; In 1864 the Democrats met in Chicago and nominated George McClellan, George was in NYC, not Chicago. He did not travel to Chi to accept the nomination, In fact, he was a bit annoyed with the party platform and it took him three days to accept the nomination!

I recall that conventions are usually accompanied by a poll bump Day 1, in contrast with the GOP, would seem to be VERY positive for polling. [Meanwhile, if Trump does lose this thing (which seems increasingly likely) it seems to me that the GOP is in serious trouble.]

In ZZLP I raised the question of this convention, That post got little traction, but two things come to mind from that post: (1) I hope the Convention goes right at Trump. It has (2) The Democratic Party has a great bench, That is already apparent

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It seems to me that in a broad sense the fundamental flaw in IC's dealing with this stuff is the failure to articulate what is meant by "political," There are lots of issues where folks "on both sides" might disagree about the merits of an argument, But in this historic moment we also have...