Washington Post (January 6)
“The Republican Party’s troubles are severe” and it’s “having a nervous breakdown in full public view…. But it is not alone. In many countries around the world, populists are flailing.” They have emerged “as an opposition movement,” but the “shallowness of its policy proposals” is being exposed. “The world’s complicated problems will always allow for someone who proposes answers that are simple, seductive and wrong. But let us hope that 2023 will see populism exposed for the sham that it is.”
Tags: 2023, Exposed, Flailing, Nervous breakdown, Opposition movement, Populists, Republican Party, Seductive, Severe, Shallowness, Sham, Simple, Troubles, Wrong
Politico (November 10)
“Forty-eight hours after Joe Biden emerged as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, Europe was still basking in the afterglow.” Even conservatives whose “traditional ties” with “the Republican Party frayed when Trump came to power.”
Tags: Afterglow, Basking, Biden, Conservatives. Traditional ties, Europe, Frayed, Power, Presidential election, Republican Party, Trump, U.S., Winner
Washington Post (May 22)
Despite the hubbub, “you shouldn’t expect impeachment anytime soon.” You may be certain President Trump has “already committed the ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’” necessary for impeachment, but that hurdle is “ill-defined. In the end, it amounts to ‘anything Congress thinks merits removal from office.’” This means “President Trump isn’t going to be impeached and removed from office unless the Republican Party decides it wants him gone.”
Tags: Congress, High crimes and misdemeanors, Hubbub, Ill-defined, Impeachment, Republican Party, Trump
The Economist (June 23)
“Donald Trump’s ill-fated policy of caging children” is a “blot against America.” Ultimately, it “will hurt his party more than him.” His immigration antics “may sustain his presidency,” but “the history of America’s moral corrections suggests that what they lack in spontaneity they make up for with momentum.” Ultimately, the Republican party will pay the price.
Tags: Blot, Caging children, Ill-fated policy, Immigration, Moral corrections, Republican Party, Trump
New York Times (July 22)
“What historical shift, what tremors in American culture, yielded up Mr. Trump’s moment from the depths of the national id? How did a braggadocious Manhattan billionaire with a history of dodgy business deals convince 13 million people feeling battered by a changing world that he is their solution?” Mr. Trump has “sought advantage by playing to disaffected people’s worst instincts, inventing scapegoats and conspiracy theories, waging and inciting vicious attacks on those who disagree with him. He is a poisonous messenger for a legitimate demand.” The Republican Party need to “dedicate itself to improving working people’s lives, instead of serving the elite.”
Tags: Billionaire, Braggadocious, Conspiracy theories, Dodgy business deals, Elite, Poisonous, Republican Party, Scapegoats, Tremors, Trump, U.S., Vicious attacks, Worst instincts
