The People Have Spoken But will the Trump administration listen? It is too soon to tell, and the early moves suggest they aren't, but we will see after December. Here's the question I keep coming back to: is the law the same for everybody, or does it just look that way from where most of us stand? Start with voting. The whole idea of this country is that voters pick their leaders. But lately it feels backward. Many of the rules about how we vote are written by the people on the ballot. When lawmakers draw their own districts, they get to pick their voters instead of the other way around. When they change voter ID rules, close polling places in certain neighborhoods, or purge voter rolls, it's usually the folks least likely to vote for them who have the hardest time. That should bother everyone, no matter for whom they vote. Making it easier to vote and taking the map-drawing out of politicians' hands shouldn't be a partisan fight. It's simply making su...
The Tea Party We Forgot: Why It’s Time to Break the Modern Aristocracy Take a hard look around right now and ask yourself: Does any of this feel like the republic our Founders fought and bled for? Every two years, it’s the same circus. Millions of dollars flood our screens. Cable news talking heads shout that the other side wants to destroy America. Families stop talking over the dinner table. Neighbors eyeball each other with suspicion over yard signs. And when election night finally wraps up, the winners march into office like conquering warlords while the losers retreat into bitterness, already scheming their revenge. We’ve been conditioned to accept this as normal. We treat politics like an endless turf war between red and blue, a blood sport where the winner takes everything, and the loser gets trampled. It was never intended to be that way. It’s time to call this what it actually is: a setup. The establishment machine wants you convinced that your neighbor down th...