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Election 2020:
Is Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Plan Feasible?
Criticized by her fellow Democrats for not talking about how she plans to pay for a single-payer Medicare for all program and for insisting that under her plan, the middle class will not see higher taxes, Warren has responded by unveiling details about where the money for her Medicare for all &nb...
The Impact of Michael Bloomberg’s Candidacy
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and multi-billionaire businessman, just announced that he will be running in the primaries as a Democratic Party candidate. This has a lot of Democrats vexed, or even distressed, because the most immediate impact, according to TV pundits, is ...
Elizabeth Warren’s Brilliant Campaign
Most people who have been following Elizabeth Warren’s campaign would readily acknowledge that she has run an impressive campaign so far: From having been declared “dead” after the DNA test flap, she has come roaring back at a steady pace. By mid summer of 2019, she is pol...
The Difference Between Warren and Sanders
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seem to agree on a lot of issues—Medicare for All, Free College, Taxing the Rich, Forgiving College Loan Debt and more. The two are in complete agreement that the system is currently rigged in favor of the rich and corporations. . ...
Why Universal Basic Income Will Not Work
Universal Basic Income, or UBI, is an idea that has been promoted by “progressive” capitalists who are not interested in fundamental structural changes. Instead, they advocate glitzy band aids slapped on gushing wounds, believing that such measures would alleviate serious proble...
Pete Buttigieg: Alluring to Some, But Not to All
2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the eloquent 37 year old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has taken the wealthy white liberal class by storm. In fact, he is so popular among the latter that he outraised all other candidates for the 2nd quarter 2019, taking in a who...
Can Dems Win Back the White House in 2020 with a Moderate Candidate?
While media commentators have focused on the energy generated by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its leading campaign issue—Medicare-for-All—this could be deceptive. In this article, the author shows that for the 2018 mid0term elections, significantly more moder...
The Chances of a Dem Majority in the Senate in 2020
Most analysts agree that the Democrats’ chances of carrying out their agenda after 2020 (regardless of which party is in the White House) will depend on whether they can become the majority party in the Senate. If the Republicans are still the majority party in the Senate, Mitch McCon...
Prediction: Dem Victory in 2020
Professor Rachel Bitecofer, the assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University, accurately predicted that Democrats would gain 42 sits in 2018 (Dems gained 40).
Now she predicts that Donald Trump will lose in 2020 to alm...
Tom Steyer’s Candidacy
A piece by Paul Waldman, a Washington Post opinion writer, questions why Steyer is running for president. Overall, Waldman compliments Steyer for all his positive accomplishments on behalf of progressive causes, especially in combating climate change. But he poses some good questions ...
