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Deception & Misdirection
Losing the Latino Voters: Episode 1 of Showtime’s The Lincoln Project
According to the Showtime account, increasing Latino and black support for Donald Trump is not what the Lincoln Project had in mind. The filmmakers chose “The gunslingers” as the title…
by Ken Braun on October 25, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
Showtime’s The Lincoln Project: Weaponizing Attack Ads Against Your Donor Base
Showtime’s The Lincoln Project (full series) Introduction | Episode 1 | Episode 2 Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode…
by Ken Braun on October 20, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: The Emerging Democratic Majority
In 2002, liberal scholars John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a provocative thesis: A new Democratic majority would “emerge” by the end of the decade. Traditional middle-class and working-class Democrats…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: A Prescription or a Prophecy?
The Emerging Democratic Majority is a book of two halves; a description of electoral trends that Judis and Teixeira argue favor the Democrats and a prescription for Democrats to adopt…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: From McConnell to Trump
Sean Trende speculated that a Republican Party advancing the alternate approach “would have to be more ‘America first’ on trade, immigration and foreign policy; less pro–Wall Street and big business…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: Teixeira Exiled
The Democratic response to the Trump administration accelerated the burial of progressive centrism. The professional class hardened in its Democratic alignment as “wokeness”—the mix of Robin DiAngelo- and Ibram X.
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: Conclusion
"The Emerging Democratic Majority," while not prophetic, was informative in projecting who would constitute Barack Obama’s presidential majorities. But its prescription, a “progressive centrism” focused on left-populist economic and welfare…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
FBI: Trust Us, We Swear We Got It Right This Time!
Five summers ago in August 2017, FBI counterintelligence agents were still working an ill-gotten FISA spy warrant used to investigate former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Earlier this month, the…
by Ken Braun on August 24, 2022

Book Profile
Philanthropy in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
In his new book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle recounts the ascent and dominance in American thought and public policy of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism downgraded the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on June 13, 2022

Philanthropy
Philanthropy on the Defensive
Establishment philanthropy in America is on the defensive—as it should be. Measured in terms of its size, the philanthropic sector is big and getting bigger; this is not necessarily a bad…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 25, 2022