Tag: Republican

I had tried to maintain that the Republican Party is still redeemable, had tried to maintain that it could perhaps rehabilitate itself and get back to being a functional political party again, had tried to maintain that it is worthwhile in the admittedly messy world of politics to negotiate and make...

We like to believe we can vote for whomever we want in the United States, yet because we do not practice a parliamentary system nor a national-level system of proportional representation, our electoral system is designed for only the Democratic or Republican party. But co...

Today’s Republicans and Democrats hold positions that largely mirror their predecessors from the New Deal era forward. Democrats favor a larger government role in controlling the economy, civil rights for minorities, and support for untraditional stances on social issues like abortion (Kollman...

I could not understand why Republican leaders keep making excuses for Trump until I thought of it in terms of domestic abuse. We cannot help domestic violence victims if we keep saying, “I don’t know why she won’t just leave him. Anybody can see he’s going to destroy her i...

More than that, not every state affiliate of the two major parties are the same. History has seen plenty of major differences in state parties versus the national counterparts to the point that many of them have their own unique nicknames. An Alabama Democrat is often going to be quite different fro...

I’ve been wanting to write about cowardice in politics, particularly Republican politics. There are plenty of examples, but this week provides a glaring one, one even cynics like me find appalling. For the last year we have heard endless rants about the border and immigration crisis from th...

The race for the Republican Party presidential nomination is over in two states. One Republican wants it over now, PERIOD. But what about the other 48 states? Don’t they get a voice? No. If some Republicans had their way. “Officially “the Republican National Committee is neut...