My father's parents were Yellow Dog Democrats in Texas. As the decades went on, however, dad increasingly couldn't make sense of this. He believed they remained obstinately loyal to the party despite seismic shifts in its political beliefs. Each time I heard this come up dad used the same anecdote about how JFK would've been a Republican in subsequent decades with his economic … [Read more...] about From Republican Fanboy to Blue Dog Democrat: The Reasons I Left the GOP
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Jesse Ventura & the Problem of Third Parties in American Political Life
Why don’t I support third party candidates? The short answer is because my home state elected a professional wrestler as its governor with little more than one in three Minnesotans voting for him. The long answer is that all throughout American history third parties have served to split the vote and harm the very causes they seek to promote. This happened in 1912 when … [Read more...] about Jesse Ventura & the Problem of Third Parties in American Political Life
