To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: July 2016
There’s No Bernie Revolution Without Bernie
BY FROMA HARROP One hesitates to discuss the small group of Bernie Sanders followers throwing tantrums at the Democratic convention. Some 90% of Sanders backers say they’ve already moved their support to Hillary Clinton. But when a tiny number – some with duct tape on their mouths saying “silenced” – marched out of the hall […]
For Trump To Lose, Clinton Must Win
BY FROMA HARROP “Lizard-brain narcissism.” “Disgusts a significant number of people in his own party.” Says things “one might expect from a patient in a mental institution.” The subject is Donald J. Trump, and the speakers are all prominent conservative writers. [Jonah Goldberg, Jennifer Rubin, Stephen F. Hayes.] Trump appalls them. They fear his election […]
What Will Happen To Us?
Why America Recoils From Trump
BY JOE CONASON The revulsion evoked by Donald Trump as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland goes far beyond his speech, which was memorable only for its angry mood, not its vapid content. What repelled so many Americans in that moment was the realization – or simply the intuition – that the candidate […]