The Democratic Party suffered a string of defeats during Carter and before Clinton. The party did a lot to reform itself and then become more competitive in elections. Maybe we can quibble that those… (View Post)

It has won elections, and gotten Republicans out of power both in 2018 and right now. So yeah, I'd say it's working. I'd also argue it's only very recently, with the gratuitous excesses of Trump, tha… (View Post)

As opposed to making a bunch of personal attacks on the newspaper and its writer, you could have easily spent this time verifying the North Carolina state numbers, which was the author's most egregio… (View Post)

As I've explained previously, anti-democratic institutions enable the Republican Party to cling to power while defying what most Americans would prefer -- i.e. Senate control. The logic of why democr… (View Post)

This is extremely well said. Obama and the Democrats might not have passed one's policy preferences, but it was not a dysfunctional government. And even during that term, Obama had to compromise with… (View Post)