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Why are so many pundits conflating U.S. blue-collar voters’ concerns that are similar to their British counterparts’ who voted for Brexit with the separate issue of whether the Brexit vote itself will influence U.S. blue-collar voters’ votes in November? These are completely different issues.

…or potential ones, and only one of these will matter to the outcome of the election. Suffice it to say that the Build the Wall and Ban Muslims voters in…

The Democratic Establishment Thinks the Lesson of This Election Is That the Way For Democrats to Win Over White Voters In the Industrial Midwest Is to Switch Sides in the Culture Wars. I Guess. [Updated.]

…economic and political power of Wall Street, and of the (mostly) Republican billionaires and their think-tank, lobbyist, and media juggernaut. Uh-uh. It’s only elite progressives, millennials, African Americans and Hispanics,…