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Category: Election 2024
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By Selwyn Duke Ours certainly is a time of political change — some would say upheaval. Just recently, disaffected Democratic ex-governor Rod Blagojevich condemned his own party as a den of “monumental” “hypocrites and liars.” Now he has been joined by a former Democrat who adds a prognosis to his diagnosis. The party is “on its last…
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Image created by Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke When Grandma Sarah was saved from Comanchero thugs by the eponymous main character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), she wasn’t entirely happy. “This Mr. Wales is a cold-blooded killer,” she told the Indian Lone Watie, who’d been abducted with her. “He’s from Missouri, where they’re all…
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By Selwyn Duke There’s currently a war raging for the soul of the Democrats. Having been repudiated in the 2024 election, the party appears rudderless and leaderless, with two of its most prominent current faces being an ex-bartender and a career-politician lawyer, both from New York. (Yes, that would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chuck Schumer.)…
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By Selwyn Duke “They misunderestimated me,” then-President-elect George W. Bush famously said about his political opponents after his 2000 election victory. While it’s perhaps easy underestimating someone so prone to malapropisms and mangling syllables, “Dubya” was right. There’s a lesson there, too — one that, more than a generation later, the Democrats still haven’t learned. Just consider…
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By Selwyn Duke A 2023 poll found that almost 70 percent of Republicans/Republican leaners believed that Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was illegitimate. Given this cynicism about the process, many Americans expected a replay of the fraud in 2024. Yet that didn’t materialize because, it’s often said, President Donald Trump’s November support made the election…
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