BY SUSAN ESTRICH The way for Democrats to win in 2020 is to follow the advice of the shrewdest Democrat in politics today: – Don’t be goaded by President Trump into a lengthy impeachment battle that will divide the country and ultimately be defeated by the Republican Senate. – Don’t go too far left and…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH There’s hope for those of you 75 or over. There is still time to be president of the United States. After all, Biden would be 78 at the inauguration. Bernie Sanders, his elder, would be 79. An 80-year-old in the White House? And, of course, Trump, should he win again, would be…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH If you believe the national polls, Joe Biden is running first nationally [in three of four polls out this week], about eight points ahead of Sen. Bernie Sanders, which tells you nothing about how things will look after Iowa. If you believe the prediction numbers, the chances of a second Trump term…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I don’t know whether Joe Biden should run for president. I don’t know if he will be able to connect with the younger generation that has breathed new life into the Democratic Party. In short, I don’t know whether he can beat Donald Trump, which is the thing I care about most….
BY VERN TURNER When I retired from teaching in the small, central Texas town of Marble Falls, there was a local newspaper named The River Cities Daily Tribune. It had a single op-ed writer who happened to be a Libertarian. Now, Marble Falls, politically speaking, was quite conservative to the point of being not the least bit…
