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Scott Alexander on Trump’s Alleged Racism

Someone posted this long post (is there any other kind?) from Scott Alexander in the comments a while ago. It is a simply PHENOMENAL refutation of what “everybody knows” about Trump being a flaming racist. I didn’t read it until I was on a business trip and was stuck with my conscience and my phone […]

Reactions to the Trump Victory: F

I fell away from my educational responsibilities and didn’t give out the final grade. Earlier I gave Will Rahn of CBS News an A+ for his soul-searching as a journalist, reflecting on how they had condescended to Trump supporters. I also gave Scott Sumner a B, since he admitted explicitly in several posts (both at […]

Hitler Bothers Me As Much as a 3-Second Violation

[UPDATE: I intended this post for humor value, for the regular readers who know the history of my exchanges with Scott Sumner. Let me clarify for newcomers: I am very wary of what could happen with civil liberties under Trump. (In the piece we discuss in this post below, I mentioned that if he builds […]

Reactions to the Trump Victory: B

Scott Sumner gets a B. At first I was ready to give him an A, because he has repeatedly admitted he was totally wrong about Trump’s chances in the election. (Incidentally, I wasn’t predicting a Trump victory. I heard his speech in Florida the Friday [?] before and was texting some people saying, “Trump is […]

Reactions to the Trump Victory: A+

I am going to give scores to people based on how well they dealt with the shattering of their worldviews. Will Rahn of CBS News gets an A+. An excerpt: So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was […]

My Thoughts On Trump’s Tax Return

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that this issue has absorbed a large portion of my sanity since Sunday. Hopefully this post will get it out of my system. An excerpt: If you still feel like Trump is cheating, realize you too can take advantage of this “vast benefit.” I’ll […]

Ice Cube on Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Sanders

This interview was posted back in April, but I just saw a clip on Twitter yesterday. Look at Ice Cube–writer and performer on such songs as “F*** tha Police”–discussing Trump and Clinton: (In case you don’t get the reference, Hillary Clinton in 1996 referred to “superpredators” whom the authorities had to “bring to heel.”) What’s […]

Melania Trump Plagiarism: Crazy Like a Fox?

I posted this on Facebook: OK watch this: SUPPOSE for one second that the Trump campaign–which defied all the odds and managed to knock out the Bush dynasty plus some other candidates that were ostensibly qualified politicians–isn’t completely stupid. SUPPOSE for one second that they wouldn’t let a plagiarized speech by the candidate’s wife slip […]