Tag: Donald Trump
It Can’t Happen Here: a demagogue rises, but the parallels aren’t yuge
A Sinclair Lewis novel about the rise of a dictator has been adapted for the stage, seeking to cast new light on the age of Trump but it’s more agitprop than satire. In those entertaining early days of the Republican primaries, the illogical popularity of Donald Trump seemed like a lark. Snarky nicknames were coined, […]
‘Trump’s promises are empty’: energy experts lay waste to proposals
From making coal great again to cancelling the Paris accord, industry analysts say his ideas are farfetched and his talk of climate change as a hoax is dangerous. Donald Trump’s energy agenda which includes pledges of complete energy independence, making coal great again and ditching the Paris climate deal is drawing bipartisan fire from industry […]
Who won the debate? A round-by-round analysis of Clinton v Trump
The first debate of the 2016 campaign was divided by NBC into three sections. Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs investigate who won each of them. Round one: Achieving Prosperity Clinton Hillary Clinton focused early on policy, laying out an economic agenda that called for reducing income inequality by raising the minimum wage, closing the gender […]
If George HW Bush votes against Trump, he’ll be in good Republican company | Jamie Weinstein
Bush’s opposition can be dismissed as the qualms of a north-eastern moderate. But alongside him are many with unimpeachable conservative credentials. It wouldn’t be surprising if, as one recent visitor to the Bush compound in Kennebunkport reports, former president George HW Bush will be voting for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump this fall. After all, […]
Graham on Trump or Clinton: ‘I really don’t know’ who’d be a better commander in chief
Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he doesn’t know whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be a better commander in chief for the United States. “You know, I really don’t know,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” when asked who he believed would do a better job.