Only by firmly linking democracy and civil liberties to concrete programs of social and economic justice can working-class unity be built.
Attorneys General can make a real difference, particularly if they are willing to consistently bring lawsuits against the presidential agenda both to protect their state and the country as a whole.
Democrats have to keep reminding themselves, and America, that they beat Trump and the Republicans in the competition that mattered most - the only truly national competition this fall. The Democratic mandate is not overwhelming. But it is real.
Since the 2016 elections, corporate media narratives about US politics have fixated on the “white working class” as a pivotal demographic, presented as a hardscrabble assortment of disaffected outsiders.
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Ben Fountain's "Beautiful Country Burn Again" revisits (and tries to make historical sense of) the convulsions of the 2016 election as prelude to--and forewarning of--the perfervid run-up in Trump country to the 2018 midterm contests.
Donald Trump’s appeal to racial resentment worked better than it should have. The results from Tuesday suggest that his strategy might have been an effective one, even if it promises to destroy the country’s social cohesion.
At 29, the Democratic Socialist—a young woman heralded by some as her party's future, savior, and new face, immediately after she became an overnight household name in June—is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
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