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I consider Warren the frontrunner. Biden is sputtering, Sanders has stalled and Harris is faltering. The other candidates are all extreme long shots.

Using racist or Nazi as permanent pejorative stamps on certain posters heads is virtue signaling and counterproductive. Coincidentally, I was just reading a review of a new book published this month. It’s called “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi. Most people can acknowledge that racism...

Cultural Marxism is just how some conservatives have fairly recently started to refer to Critical Theory, which has been around for many decades. It was developed by disaffected Marxists, mainly in Germany and the United States, in response to the horrors of Stalinism. Critical Theory is most...

The problem with Williamson is that more Republicans are excited about her and want her to do well than Democrats. She has yet to exceed one percent in any of the qualifying polls for the next debate in September. She needs to hit 2 percent in four qualifying polls in just the next two weeks to...

If you like the phrase "Deep State” and believe in it, that’s fine. It’s also one of Trump’s favorite buzz phrases. I prefer the more benign “establishment” as it’s more accurate and in line with my own views. Deep State means a sinister shadow government that operates behind the scenes...

Comparing Trump to fascism or calling him a fascist is not saying the U.S. is now an authoritarian fascist state. We still have the means to prevent that from happening in 2020. After that it's a walk on the wide side where anything is possible.

Yeah, the comparison should be with fascism. The Hitler thing is unnecessarily distracting and counter-productive.

"Is Donald Trump a fascist? The question is usually posed as an insult rather than as a serious inquiry. A common response is that “he is not as bad as Hitler”, but this rather dodges the issue. Hitler was one hideous exponent of fascism, which comes in different flavours but he was by no means...

I appreciate the words and the effort, babe. I think I have a healthy mix of conservative, libertarian and liberal values and opinions so I’m not real comfortable with any one label over the others. However, progressive can especially irritate in a way that liberal would not. Free speech and...

I think it’s roughly a third of Americans own guns, another third are open to the possibility of owning at some point in their lives, and the remaining third have no desire to ever own a gun. Gun culture is pervasive but it’s nowhere near all-inclusive. The right to own is entrenched in the...

Out of nowhere you call me a hack for an agenda I’ve never advocated here or anywhere else and I’m the one that’s insulting? Maybe we could limit our future interaction to when there’s something substantive that can be directly referenced? That should make it really easy to avoid each other and...

Sorry, babe, that’s never been me. Keep trying though, you do seem to really need to label people and put them in tidy little boxes. My theory is that it makes your own calcified view of the world more comforting and manageable.

Your posts are invariably informative, Red. You’re a fixture here now, not an outsider at all. The forum wouldn’t be the same without you.

Hollywood is his ninth film. He said he would retire after ten.

Ephebophilia and maybe even hebephilia are all more than bad enough for Epstein, and possibly Clinton and Trump, without the pedo and pedophile label. Maybe the differences are no longer considered valid or too clinical and now pedophile has become the all-encompassing term?

This will be another close election. The Democrat may easily win the popular vote but the Electoral College will be too close to call. Every vote in the swing states will be massively important. I’m not a Democrat but I will volunteer, donate and vote for whomever they nominate. My guess for now...

@jazzrule. I don’t mean to offend, but I skimmed all the way through your post until my eye caught this nutty nugget: Obviously, this is not anywhere close to being true. Did you copy and paste this nonsense? Or did you make it up all on your own? PS. The total amount Warren Buffet donated to...

I’m optimistic by nature and remain hopeful for 2020. There's a beautiful glide symmetry to the number. It would be a shame for Trump’s reelection to spoil that beauty for eternity.

Briefly, back to the OP topic. 2020 will be a no more excuses election. In a way we can excuse 2016 as an aberration, an election where just enough voters (80,000 in three critical states) so badly wanted a change that they blinded themselves to Trump’s character flaws. There aren’t any excuses...

Trump may well be a racist. More troubling, however, is the fact that playing to racial animus is so successful. The Southern strategy has been the Republican Party’s pathway to the presidency since Nixon. Trump is just its most blatant practitioner. Demographics has narrowed the pathway and...