Cautious Democrats seeking to avoid impeaching Donald Trump are making a mangle of the past and misreading the present.
David Atkins
David Atkins is a writer and activist from California. He is a contributor to the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal, elected DNC Member, and president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative research firm.
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The Democratic Party Divide Is About Theories of Political Power
Dianne Feinstein’s dust-up with activists over the Green New Deal revealed that progressives are unwilling to tolerate a political system that they feel threatens planetary survival.
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It Was Prejudice. It Was Economics. It Was Both.
New surveys show not all Trump voters had the same motivations.
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Why Democrats Should Block Gorsuch
In a rational political system, Democrats might keep their powder dry in the Supreme Court battle. But Republican extremism has made resistance Democrats’ only option.
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Trump May Be Sexist and Racist, But That’s Not the Only Reason He Won
Economic anxiety drove many of Donald Trump’s working-class voters, a bloc Democrats failed to energize amid plunging turnout overall.
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Racism Alone Doesn’t Explain Trump’s Support, Which Also Reflects Economic Anxiety
It’s become popular these days to blame Trump’s rise on bigotry and racial animus alone, but that diagnosis misses the important role played by economic anxiety.
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Hostility Awaits Clinton
Donald Trump’s increasingly conspiracy-laden rhetoric is setting the stage for an unusually antagonistic relationship between congressional Republicans and a prospective President Clinton.
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Why Millennials Don’t Like Clinton—And What She Can Do About It
Hillary Clinton’s support from millennial voters has dropped sharply since August, a problem that she needs to address even more aggressively to hold onto this key bloc of voters.
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Nothing to Lose: A President Clinton Should Take Aggressive Climate Action
Hillary Clinton’s instincts for incrementalism won’t get her far on the issue of climate change, given the urgency of the issue and the intransigence of Republicans on Capitol Hill.