Democrats missed the issue about Trump’s COVID testing — Democrats are missing the issue about Trump’s COVID testing. What the public hears is that Trump is not being forthcoming about when he had his last negative test prior to being diagnosed with COVID. For most voters, the accusation stops there. Just more stonewalling. What exactly Trump is trying to…

8:00 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT NOVEMBER 3, 2020 — At 8:00 p.m. EST, the polls close state-wide in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Although polls remain open in a big chunk of the country, Election Night…

THE REALITIES EXPOSED BY RBG’S DEATH — With our hearts still constricted by the shock of RBG’s death, its political implications are already hotly debated. Tactically astute as always, McConnell set down a marker that there would be a confirmation vote during Trump’s first term in the third sentence of his “condolence” statement. He didn’t say whether…

5:00 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M. OF ELECTION DAY — NOVEMBER 3, 2020. As the hour approached for the first poll closures, on all the cable channels horror stories are heaped on horror stories about voting debacles in the battleground states. MSNBC interviews two voters in a line in Fulton County…

NOON TO 5:00 P.M. OF ELECTION DAY — NOVEMBER 3, 2020. — Mary Hutchinson, the Trump campaign poll watcher at the Brooklyn Center polling place in Minneapolis, was proving to be quite a handful for the volunteers working there. She was insisting on independently verifying every ID they’d already checked. There were four volunteers, and one of her, and squinting her eyes…

ELECTION DAY — NOVEMBER 3, 2020. — “Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.” -Thomas Hobbes. And at the stroke of midnight November 3 finally arrived. There was a five to one ratio of masked camera crew members to unmasked geriatric voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. Indeed, there was a question as to…

This is part of glossary of people, institutions, and concepts that reviews their recent history and frames their relevance to this story Control of the Senate is the key to control of the institution which brings the real long game into focus. For the Republican leaders, toleration of Trump’s mountain…

This is part of glossary of people, institutions, and concepts that reviews their recent history and frames their relevance to this story The gerrymandering of Congressional districts by Republican legislatures gave a big leg-up to Republican candidates but in 2018 the dam broke and the Democrats finally took control of…

This is part of glossary of people, institutions, and concepts that reviews their recent history and frames their relevance to this story Republican control at the state level has also been a result of a systematic voter suppression which in turn has enabled Republicans to further consolidate that control. The…