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Trump’s Taiwan Gambit

December 6, 2016 00:27:57

Episode 66 of “The More Perfect Union” podcast covers Trump’s controversial call from the president of Taiwan, the President-elect’s latest Cabinet picks, the soap opera between Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney over the Secretary of State job, the pros and cons of Trump’s Carrier jobs deal, and a round of the game, “Name That Host.”

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Wisconsin Recount

November 28, 2016 00:29:11

Episode 66 of The More Perfect Union podcast covers the Jill Stein initiated recount of Wisconsin, Romney vs. Giuliani, why Kellyanne Conway is a bad omen for the Trump White House, and the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

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The Problem Isn’t Our Candidates

July 22, 2016

by Kevin Kelton

I keep hearing the same forlorn complaint: “Why do we have such bad candidates this year? Why must we choose between the lesser of two evils?” But the truth is, our 2016 presidential candidates are not any worse than ever before.

Donald Trump, for all his personal peccadillos, is no worse on policy than Mitt Romney, who also promised anti-choice judges and a repeal of Obamacare, wanted to press immigrants to self-deport, and proposed tax cuts just as massive and just as onerous as Trump’s. And they are both just as recklessly hawkish and just as wealth-gap enabling as John McCain or George W. Bush. Take out Trump’s antipathy for trade deals (one of his few plusses), and you could line up all their policy positions in a spreadsheet and not be able to tell who belongs to which column.

Hillary Clinton, for all the GOP-inspired caricature myths about her trustworthiness and cozy relationship with Wall St., is very much in line politically and temperamentally with previous nominees Barack Obama, John Kerry, Al Gore, and Michael Dukakis. Read More

Normal Political Violence

March 14, 2016


Segments:

Is violence at political events the new normal?

Does the violence issue help or hurt the Sanders campaign?

How much of the minority vote does Sanders actually need? Can he find it in the mid-west?

Is the Clinton Honduras scandal a thing? Like, really?

Why Ivanka Trump may be the most important person in American politics today

Romney Arrives To Save Us All

March 8, 2016

Segments:

Here he comes to save the day! Mighty Mitt is on the way!

Clinton vs Sanders in a gun fight.

Four Republican paths to the nomination. No, really.

Maybe the worst set of political predictions ever. No, really!

Why Clinton Beats Trump…In Pictures

March 3, 2016

Today, instead of arguing the general election in words, let’s argue it in pictures. (And save me a thousand words.)

For every argument that Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton by turning out new, first-time white voters, there’s a picture that says, “No, he can’t.”

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