A molti dei miei connazionali americani piace pensare alla loro nazione come un paese eccezionale, un esperimento politico unico, diverso da tutto il resto. Per alcuni, questa è una buona cosa; gli Stati Uniti si distinguono in alto, come ha detto Ronald Reagan, “la città splendente su una collina”. Per…

There has never been a better time for such a vote, and there won’t be another chance for many years to come. — There is a debate raging currently that has cleaved the progressive Left in twain. …

The vast number of “undervotes” and other irregularities are not new. But they are particularly American. — America likes to think of itself as an exceptional country, a unique political experiment, different from all the rest. For some, this is a good thing; the US stands apart but on high, that “shining city on a hill”. For others, however, it is a land of exceptional inequality, violence…

America is exceptional in many ways. How we count votes should not be one of them. — The US is exceptional in many ways when it comes to elections. First, we are the only industrialized country that disenfranchises so many of its citizens, denying them the right to vote. …

The campaign against Dominion Voting Systems is just the latest battle in a decades-long political war. — Republicans including President Donald Trump, backed up by former Assistant US Attorney Sidney Powell, are launching a series of bombastic attacks against an electronic voting system vendor called Dominion Voting Systems. …

AOC gets it mostly right, but fails to identify the true problem — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made news recently with a bombshell interview that appeared in The New York Times. In the piece, AOC offers a critique of the Democratic Party, specifically in the way the party spends its campaign funds. The DNC and its campaign arms, the D.C.C.C. and the D.S.C.C., are…

Jim Clyburn‘s intervention in the primaries made the Democratic loss in Congress inevitable. — The Democrats have won a Pyrrhic victory with Joe Biden. They got rid of Trump, but in electing Joe Biden they may have set the Democratic Party on a death spiral that could culminate in four years. One surprisingly disastrous aspect of the 2020 election is the poor performance of…

The US has been a fascist society since its inception. — “The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere, First President of Tanzania (1965) There is only one party in the US, the corporatist party. This is a fact that that is readily apparent and has been well…

The elites never saw it coming, and there is a reason for that. — Why did Biden and the Democrats and the Media get it so wrong? Simple. They massively overestimated the importance of the Coronavirus among the general population. And they massively underestimated the importance of the economy. They could not understand just how much the working people and small businesses of America…