Despite previously inflammatory rhetoric, Trump’s victory speech portrayed the candidate as someone who, above all, wanted to make sure Americans were safe, employed, and prosperous.
John Judis is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
As a visiting scholar at Carnegie, Judis wrote The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Judis’s articles have appeared in the American Prospect, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Washington Monthly, American Enterprise, Mother Jones, and Dissent. He has written five books, including The Emerging Democratic Majority (with Ruy Teixeira), The Parodox of American Democracy, and William F. Buckley: Patron Saint of the Conservatives.
Judis is also the author of The Emerging Democratic Majority; The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests and the Betrayal of Public Trust; William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives; and Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century.
Despite previously inflammatory rhetoric, Trump’s victory speech portrayed the candidate as someone who, above all, wanted to make sure Americans were safe, employed, and prosperous.
The issues Bernie Sanders is raising in his campaign for president are important for the future of the United States.
Even if Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump don’t win the presidency, their candidacies have roiled the waters of American party politics.
The Republicans came out ahead in the Iowa Caucuses.
Even if Trump and Sanders are denied the White House, their campaigns will have been extremely significant, perhaps even changing presidential politics forever.
Democrats could eventually reclaim the majorities they won in 2008 or enjoyed earlier in the past century, but it won’t happen simply because of demography.
The San Bernardino and Paris attacks are strong mortality reminders that awaken fear of "them," and Trump, of all the Republican candidates, combines celebrity and charisma with contempt and contumely toward those responsible for the attacks.
The politics of inequality are clouded and confused, and those politicians who hope to win national or state office by making appeals to reduce inequality must proceed with care.
Historians may, decades from now, regard Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign as a harbinger of what became a substantial challenge to the powers that be.
Donald Trump articulates a coherent set of ideological positions, even if those positions aren’t exactly conservative or liberal.