wE cAn pUsH hIM lEFt

November 19, 2020 ~ DWD ~ Leave a comment

You know, I'm starting to think Joe Biden might not be The Most Progressive President Since FDR™ after all: https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1329466536231276545 He seems nice: In 2010, Reed served as executive director of the Bowles-Simpson Commission, one of Barack Obama’s worst blunders. The commission was created in order to put the federal budget on an automatic pilot … Continue reading wE cAn pUsH hIM lEFt

Fraying nerves

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 ~ DWD ~ Leave a comment

Something stood out to me in Daniel Bessner's post-election column at Foreign Exchanges: 2020 was the most important election of our lifetimes.Just like 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and so on. Since the 1984 presidential elections, as the Google N-gram below suggests, American media has argued that every subsequent election is the most important in history. … Continue reading Fraying nerves

Corruption Matters

December 6, 2016September 20, 2019 ~ DWD ~ Leave a comment

Amid all the post-election "how the hell did we get here" analysis, a lot of which has focused squarely and rightly on the myriad failures of the Democratic Party, another piece of the puzzle has gotten lost a bit, and that has to do with what Donald Trump represented to a lot of voters--a vote … Continue reading Corruption Matters

What He Said (second in a series)

November 15, 2016September 17, 2019 ~ DWD ~ 1 Comment

So the piece I wrote yesterday got a lot of attention, and a lot of positive feedback, for which I'm grateful. When I stray beyond foreign policy and world affairs I'm the first to admit that I'm out of my comfort zone, and I certainly didn't intend that post to be anything more than a … Continue reading What He Said (second in a series)

Things I Think (first in a series)

November 14, 2016September 20, 2019 ~ DWD ~ 2 Comments

As I process what happened last Tuesday, and how I can help do something about it, I'm going to start an irregular series here where I lay out some of my thoughts. Maybe, hopefully, this will spur some discussion about how we--all of us who want to--can organize a real left opposition to what is … Continue reading Things I Think (first in a series)