“If Romney cares about leaving a lasting legacy, he would have prioritized identifying, training, promoting, and otherwise grooming a group of young, like-minded conservatives in Utah who share his values and philosophy. In other words, he should have built a machine. This necessarily requires being involved in the state and local Republican parties, which control money, ballot access, registration of voters, etc. His political aides could have managed it and made this project a priority…
Read Wide and Far
Source: By Chuck Warren Sunday has become a more treasured day as Father Time follows me more than he did decades ago. It is a day for me to attend church, commune with the Divine, and handwrite personal correspondence to friends, family, and associates. It offers a brief respite from the week, allowing me to walk in nature and catch up on articles that are not necessarily current events or headline news – today’s national…
What Arizona’s primaries will tell us about the GOP divide
The proxy battle between President Trump and establishment Republican figures will come to a head in Tuesday’s Arizona primaries, providing an indication of the direction the GOP might take going forward. The two wings of the Republican Party have provided contrasting messages in the lead-up to Arizona’s primaries, with Trump and his endorsed candidates zeroing in on his unfounded claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and establishment-backed Republicans focusing on kitchen…
Journalist Economic Jujitsu
On January 21, 2008, the day that George W. Bush entered his last day of his Presidency, and with the Presidential race heating up, the Associated Press predicted a recession ahead. The report defined recession “as an outright contraction of economic activity and employment lasting at least six months.” In the June of 2019, again in the middle of a heating Presidential race, a Politico report said that “Manufacturing as measured by the Federal Reserve has declined…
Arizona puts Trump’s political influence to the test
Arizona is shaping up to be the next high-stakes test of Donald Trump’s political power, as the former president’s endorsed candidates face off against a slate of establishment-backed Republicans. The proxy battle kicks into high gear this weekend when Trump will hold a rally Friday for his favored candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake, while former Vice President Mike Pence will stump for one of Lake’s opponents, Karrin Taylor Robson. The dueling rallies come as Trump continues…
Can Kari Lake Be Stopped?
By Matt Lewis, Senior Columnist – Beating back Donald Trump and beating back Trumpism are both vital, if different, goals. Although there are signs his hold is weakening, Trump, the man, still holds plenty of sway in the Republican Party. But his ability to spread Trumpism, by virtue of his endorsed acolytes, is not nearly as impressive. Arizona’s primary voters have another chance to stop Trumpism in its tracks on Aug. 2. It’s two weeks to slow the spread. I’m…
A polarized U.S. celebrates Independence Day
By Daniel Trotta July 4 (Reuters) – DeShanna Neal’s 7-year-old son stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag in school, questioning whether the United States of America really stood for, as the pledge says, “liberty and justice for all.” “He said, ‘I will only stand when Black lives matter,’” said Delaware native Neal, 40, a Black, queer mother of two transgender girls and a son she describes as gender non-conforming. Neal is…