Just not believable
When a campaign attacks its opponent, the hit usually only works if the attack is both true and believable. The Republicans seem to be attacking Joe Biden for being an extremist or at least beholden to extremists. They’re telling voters that if Donald Trump is not...
Gary Pearce: Sic semper tyrannis
We Americans have no tolerance for tyrants. We fought a revolution to get rid of the King. We fought a civil war to get rid of slavery. We fought World War II to get rid of the Nazis. Earlier this year, people across North Carolina and the nation protested...
Lawless and disordered
Former state Representative David Lewis is the face of privilege and GOP hypocrisy. The party calling for law and order doesn’t think that should apply to well-connected white guys who rigged the system. Lewis somehow came out of federal court with nothing more than...
In the GOP’s America, standing in history’s door
The America we’re seeing right now is not just Trump’s America. It’s the GOP’s America. After two decades to demanding no restrictions on guns and militarizing our police, we have overly aggressive law enforcement officers making the assumption that everyone is armed,...
The costs of a decade-long assault on government
Sometimes political rhetoric can embed itself in the psyche of a nation. Almost 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan changed the country with one simple sentence: "government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem." Since then, Americans of both parties...
Two starkly different views of America
Over the past few months, Democrats have held steady leads in most of North Carolina. A Morning Consult poll out yesterday has Cal Cunningham up by eight points, 47-39 and has Joe Biden leading Trump by three, 49-46. Numbers like that have been steady for most of the...
The presidential race will go down to the wire in NC
North Carolina arrived on the scene of presidential relevance in 2008. As Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling often observes, the Tar Heel state had the second-closest margin in the country both in that year and four years later, in 2012. Even in 2016, when Donald...
David Lewis is a cautionary tale
David Lewis offers a cautionary tale for those entering politics. Lewis is ending his career in disgrace after rising to the top of the GOP House leadership. He’s pleading guilty to transferring $65,000 from his campaign to a bank account for a business he established...
Biden offers competence, compassion, and healing
Last night Democrats wrapped up a virtual convention that by almost all accounts, even Fox News, was a success. Democratic nominee Joe Biden closed out the convention with an acceptance speech that laid out his case against Donald Trump and his vision for the future...
Trump to MAGA sheep: Boycott America
We’ve normalized Trump. Despite every warning when he was initially elected, the American media and American public shrug at behavior that should be cause for dismissal from office. Certainly, his actions should make him unelectable. That they don’t says a lot about...
America’s party
For years, we’ve heard Republicans talk about “real Americans.” It’s code for white, rural and, usually, working class. We’ll see photos of people in trucks or with guns, usually with patriotic symbols like flags or eagles easily visible. Think a Chevy commercial for...
How Senate Republicans Shattered a Citadel and Liberated Trump
On March 2, 1805, a little more than a year after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Vice-President Aaron Burr departed the capitol extolling the U.S. Senate in elegiac terms. He called it “a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here –...
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