“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.” IfsFactsJobsPoliticalNextSoundIssuesBattleDemocratFinancialDullHorizonRegulationPlatformsItemsFinancial Regulation Author:Thomas Frank
“Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.” WritingNightCompanyIssuesMilitaryBalanceRepublicanBattleDemocratMetaphorDesertCopiesDivisionDesksRatsIsraeliHeadlinesRiflesMontgomeryMcclellan Author:Wesley Pruden
“The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.” WorldNeedsHas BeensChristianPoliticalSocialChurchLinesPartyBattleUnderstoodStructureUnionsDemocratMeaninglessFadedPopulistSocial Structure Author:Anne Applebaum
“Democrats are just as divided as Republicans these days. Embarrassed by their election losses, they are fighting over everything from their diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016 to how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it - yet they are just as consequential.” FightingPresidentLossRepublicanBattleElectionStrategyDemocratSexyOutsidersEmbarrassedGop Author:Susan Glasser
“Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.” WantDoeWinningMediaBattleElectionDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh