Ryan Cooper, The Week Why liberals need to stop doing collective guilt over election results. Democrats whiffed the Virginia elections this week, and the dread “Karen” is to blame. So argues Wajahat Ali at The Daily Beast, pointing to exit polls finding that a 57 percent majority of […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Even if they can’t stop the flood, it would be crazy not to prepare, Imagine you didn’t know anything about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, critical race theory, Democrats’ stalled spending bill, or any of the other personalities or issues that […]
My tentative assessment of the Virginia election is that, at least in some geographical areas, the essence of the culture war is shifting from the Right vs Left to the Center vs Left. The culture of the US has moved considerably leftward over the past decade, and elite […]
By Joel Kotkin The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning point in American politics. It is less an affirmation of a resurgent Trumpism […]
The Democrats are now the party of the capitalist class generally and the upper-middle-class generally. The Republicans are the party of the right-wing of the ruling class, with their core “base” being a nursing home/trailer park coalition for whom politics is a WWE spectacle and their general electorate […]
Author of TK News and co-host of Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi, gives his take on why Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor failed, and what it means for Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
Guest host Marshall Kosloff goes over how the Biden administration and its backers in the media misunderstood the mandate given to them when Democrats took back power in 2020
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff cover the new decision by the Federal Election Commission to allow foreign money to be spent on ballot initiatives in the US and why that is a big problem
Team Rising debates whether the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package will really reach a vote this week.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff look at the Virginia election results in the context of what the GOP’s future will be especially as Trump continues to loom large over the 2024 election
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff respond to the media reactions that took place during the live coverage of election night where narratives about why the GOP won already began to unfold
Ryan Grim breaks down the story behind the tiki torch-touting ‘protestors’ at a Youngkin campaign event late last week.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff give their top takeaways from election night as Dems were slaughtered up and down the ballot in multiple states including in Virginia where Glenn Youngkin came out victorious.
This analysis is right on the money and represents something I’ve been noticing for a while. The framework of the “culture war” has started to shift where it is no longer a matter of “liberals” vs the “religious right” but “wokesters” vs “normies.” The “Hidden Tribes” study published […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Now the fate of American democracy depends on proving me wrong. On election night in 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney conceded defeat around 1 a.m. After calling then-President Barack Obama to offer his congratulations on re-election, Romney gave a speech to his supporters. […]
By David Faris, The Week Why poor showings in Virginia and New Jersey elections are a bad omen for 2022 Voters went to the polls Tuesday in off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey that have long served as the first reliable preview of the country’s political mood […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week Tuesday was a night of upsets, shoo-ins, nailbiters, and way too many cats. Here’s our scorecard for the 2021 elections. Winner: New York City night owls The 110th mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, called it “almost silly” to suggest he shouldn’t have […]
By Matt Taibbi Notes on a “realigning” election. The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or […]
By Sean Sullivan Washington Post Democrats reeling from the party’s showing on Tuesday night were sharply critical of its direction and agenda — already the subject of months of infighting on Capitol Hill — concluding it threatens to devastate their efforts to hold on to the House and […]
So what? It’s not like the US never interferes in the internal politics of other countries. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the FEC ruling that would legalize foreign contributions to U.S. referendum campaigns.
Normies aren’t going to vote to abolish the fuzz during a time of rising violent crime and in the immediate aftermath of a wave of riots. Most people prefer safety and security above all else. See Maslow. Team Rising discusses the failure of Question 2 in Minneapolis.
In Virginia, Democrats are acting like we just had a March on Rome, and Republicans are acting like the Berlin Wall just fell. Youngkin is a moderate Republican “pro-business” type whose only real issue is taxes. He’s light years away from being a right-wing populist or far-right. Youngkin […]
Youngkin ran a very shrewd campaign. He knew exactly what buttons to push. He made opposition to CRT, mask/vaccine mandates, and being pro-“parents rights” and “tough on crime” the centerpiece of his campaign. Meanwhile, the Democrats got caught with their pants down. But Youngkin is just a Mitt […]
Some of the discussion of the rural/urban divide and state/city divide in this is interesting. Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and national director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell, discuss last night’s election results.
Joe is within the Rockefeller Democrat tradition, i.e. a representative of the northeastern banking establishment. That’s light-years removed from “communism.” Nowadays, a lot of FOXtards are comparing Biden to Jimmy Carter, which isn’t entirely inaccurate, as Carter was also a David Rockefeller protege. During the “Communism” era, there […]
There is a lot of wild hyperbole in this. What Hedges is describing in this is not “fascism” but good old-fashioned American Protestant bourgeois-liberal know-nothing populism. Nothing new under the sun. This guy Paul Street being interviewed by Hedges is a perfect illustration of what I call a […]
Krystal and Saagar go over the final polling and messaging in the Virginia Governor’s race as voters head to the polls to choose between the GOP’s Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe
Team Rising discusses new developments in the negotiations to pass President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda.
Krystal and Saagar cover some shocking polling ahead of the 2024 Democratic primary that shows Democrats in disarray and how bitter the partisan divides are in America
Ryan Grim breaks down the conflict of interest that could come back to bite Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough.
Robby Soave gives his postmortem analysis of Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin’s campaigns for Virginia governor.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and journalist Jordan Chariton discuss India Walton’s effort to unseat Byron Brown and become the first socialist mayor of Buffalo, NY. Watch Jordan’s interview with India Walton at https://statuscoup.pub/3CKTRz6
Krystal and Saagar respond to the demands made by Joe Manchin for the Build Back Better bill and the decision progressives made to fold on the congressional negotiations
Krystal and Saagar respond to a CNN segment where transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted about taking paid family leave and then letting it get taken out of Biden’s budget bill
Krystal and Saagar cover the breaking news that press secretary Jen Psaki has a breakthrough case of covid-19 and could have exposed Joe Biden
Team Rising reacts to Donald Trump’s latest comments on Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
Krystal and Saagar look at the polling as the Virginia governor’s race approaches and the disgraceful stunt pulled off by the Lincoln Project attempting to tie Glenn Youngkin to white supremacists
Robby Soave breaks down the alleged false flag planted at a Glenn Youngkin event by the Lincoln Project.
Krystal and Saagar cover the sex crime charges that await disgraced fmr. Gov Andrew Cuomo as his brother stays silent on the matter on his CNN primetime show
Ryan Grim details the history behind the drug pricing reform currently up for debate in Congress.
Krystal and Saagar cover the detailed new polling that shows how badly Biden is doing on the most important political issues of the day and on the fundamental questions about the country
Krystal dives into the potential Kamala vs Pete matchup in the 2024 Democratic primary that is currently being set up by battles between elites and donors behind the scenes
By Jenny Gathright, DCist.Com During the last two years, Virginia has seen historic changes to its criminal justice system — changes that may not have been politically possible just a few years ago in the once-purple state. Lawmakers legalized recreational weed and abolished the death penalty. And they […]
The two articles below, one by conservative scholar Paul Gottfried and one from the liberal Washington Spectator, make for an interesting comparison and contrast. The common theme is that the electoral system is losing legitimacy, and both parties are looking for ways to bypass electoral requirements in order […]
From 2016. By Richard Florida, Bloomberg Setting the nuttiness of Donald Trump and his candidacy aside, the 2016 presidential campaign serves as a fitting reminder of America’s deepening partisan divide. Americans have not only grown more ideologically polarized over the past couple of decades, Republicans and Democrats are […]
Americans continue to self-select into localized lifestyle-based enclaves. Tenth Amendment constitutionalists and states rights conservatives ignore the fact that political conflict is now local rather than regional when it comes to geography. In order to function, pan-secessionism would need to assume the form of something like ancient Greece, […]
The party realignment is almost entirely complete at this point. The Democrats are the party of educated elites, and the Republicans are the party of the poor and working-class, with race being an outlier issue. This does not mean that the Republicans are becoming the party of “class […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by David Sirota of the Daily Poster as part of a continued collaboration to discuss the Democrats weak response to the financial crisis and how it parallels to today
By Andrew Sullivan We need both parties to prevent environmental catastrophe. Here’s how we do it. Politics is downstream of culture. Change the culture and (sooner or later) you change the politics. But some political issues have such hefty cultural baggage, it’s incredibly hard to shift the politics. […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 42 percent of voters approve of Joe Biden as president while 47 percent disapprove and 11 percent said neither. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Oct 20-23 among 2727 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
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