In November 2008, Americans elected a relatively unknown U.S. Senator from Illinois president of the United States by a wide margin. What Barack Obama lacked in experience and substance he made up for in charisma and newness. He gave beautiful, inspiring speeches. He sounded not just intelligent, but wise and reasonable. His biracial heritage—his father
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Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a victory which gobsmacked the media and pundits. Trump overcame sex scandals, bad debates, a shambolic organisation, hostility from the grandees of his own party and a relentlessly hostile media. It was a smashing success. Instead of dragging the Republicans into infighting, irrelevance and
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A populist wave that began with Brexit in June reached the United States in stunning fashion on Tuesday night. In one of the biggest upsets in American political history, Donald Trump won a truly historic victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump’s remarkably decisive win stunned most political pundits, myself included. Throughout the campaign, Trump
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The election is over and we’re all digging out from a rather surprising night. Here are five interesting facts you may have missed in all the hubbub: 1. Trump May Lose the Popular Vote As of this writing, over 119 million votes have been counted, showing a gain in turnout from the 2012 election. In
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Get out the Doritos. Pop the top on your Bud Light. Go down to your man cave, plop down on your La-Z-Boy, invite your friends over and turn on the Packers game. Here come the White people. CNN commentator Van Jones, clearly upset by the results coming in last night, claimed that Democrats got “White-lashed.”
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On the first Tuesday of November millions of Americans will turn out to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, most of them are probably idiots. Now, I don’t mean that as an insult based on the modern sense of the word “idiot”, i.e., someone who is simple and stupid. It’s more of a lament based on the ancient
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