Sometimes it's like people in America speak about politics in different languages. davedenison.substack.com/p/weird-lang...
Dude, what are you even talking about?
I often wondered whether Matt Jones could have run a more populist and appealing race in Kentucky than McGrath did...
Admittedly, the "probably" is author's speculation, as well as Hightower's. But I was thinking of Beto O'Rourke's loss to Abbott: Beto won the four big cities, plus El Paso and the Valley. The rest of the state is like 80 and 90 percent for Abbott.
Yeah, that's in the story. Along with the assertion "The state is much more urban than it used to be, but the party probably can’t win without at least improving its margins in farm and ranch country."
If you really want to know what's going on with Haitian immigrants, read this. Pooja Bhatia (@bhatiap.bsky.socialwww.humanrightsnetwork.orgthebaffler.com/outbursts/in...
On matters of immigration, the United States has come to resemble the misgoverned countries many migrants have fled.
Once upon a time, left populism flourished in Texas. Where did it go? And might it reemerge, in a state that has become a Republican stronghold? In our new issue, @daveadenison.bsky.social tries to find out.
Is it even possible that Texas could once again turn blue?
George Will thinks Trump vs. Biden is "truly representative" of who we are? open.substack.com/pub/davedeni...
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Biden's presidency proved me wrong about some of this . . . but still, was the core argument right? thebaffler.com/civilificati...
Biden’s trying to get you to know him the way his family and friends know him: as the guy who is warm and fair to everyone, including the nation’s top billionaires and the fellas down at the union hal...