US Presidential Elections 2016

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Joshua Z. Rokach

Aug 30, 2024, 11:53 PM

The Kennedy-Trump election we needed

September 2, Labor Day, unofficially opens the US election season. The upheavals of the preceding six weeks underline the political whirlwind ongoing since 2016.. Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee and Independent Robert...

Feb 8, 2021, 11:20 PM

The Failure of Meritocracy

I had an interesting brief conversation with a friend who shall remain entirely nameless who complained particularly about the appeal of a presidential candidate who shall also remain nameless, and this candidate's particular appeal to the Washington DC crowd,...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 6, 2021, 12:21 AM

It’s locker-room talk all over again

Before his election in 2016, Trump was caught on tape bragging about assaulting women. Anyone decent assumed that's the end of his race. Not. Any outrage was whimsically dismissed with: It was just locker-room talk. And now, days before the...

Dec 11, 2020, 7:36 AM

Why I Didn’t Vote in the 2020 US Election (exercising civil liberty my way)

I’ve known that name, Donald Trump, all my life; the face, the character, the man, the mythos. I knew him from magazines and television, et al. In 2016, when he was running in the Republican primaries, exposing a panache...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 7, 2020, 8:06 PM

New rule for pollsters: bad predictions, money back!

The worthless polls for Israel's last 3 elections were brazenly 'explained' by pollsters by blaming the public for not answering them truthfully. You'd expect, if polls show every election again, that they systematically underestimate the right-wing favorite (Trump, Netanyahu), that...

Sep 14, 2020, 11:51 PM

Brits Renounced Corbyn. It is our turn to do the same with Trump

On December 12, 2019, British voters went to the polls in the country’s general election and delivered a stinging rebuke to the Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won 365 seats...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Sep 12, 2020, 12:45 AM

Update: Trump’s funniness is a strategy, not weakness

Watergate Scandal reporter Bob Woodward’s recorded interviews with Trump reveal that the president is not bothered by stupidity, vanity, incompetence, racism, etc. Rather, all his public weirdness is a well-calculated strategy to stay in charge. Cold calculated strategy. Scandal When...

Sep 5, 2020, 12:12 AM

Summer of love. . .

Surely not this year. This too long swath of time, days sheltered at home, work and play in place, friends and family consigned to little boxes on my iPad. Oh, to grab a coffee and catch up, to see a...

Vivienne Grace Ziner

Apr 30, 2020, 6:24 PM

Fear and Loathing in the Time of Corona

Almost two months ago, (which seems now like several lifetimes away), while I was in Washington D.C. attending AIPAC, I had dinner with one of my cousins. She is “the Harvard professor” (when you grow up in a Budapesti...

Mar 21, 2020, 11:06 AM

To My Parents Generation

To My Parents Generation. Not particularly my parents or any other person I know, just to every person whom I know and people whom I know know, who have no memory of World War II and vivid memories of...

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