Daniel McCarthy

Trump is using Biden’s inertia and lack of a positive agenda to define the Democrat

Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts. Anger is the only thing that gets through, even when he’s trying to be hopeful or inspiring. And his acceptance remarks at the Democratic convention were well short of inspirational: the nominee didn’t seem tired,

The rich will do well in Biden-Harris America, the middle class will be in life support and the violent will be unhampered

Progressive liberals get a psychic reward from incanting the right words

Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs

He was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party —  half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old

The attempt to prettify history is ugly

Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him

Corporate America wants you to know it totally rejects imperialism and racism. Just not the Chinese variety

This is the most sterile rebellion any country has ever seen

He was just too scared of upsetting the gatekeeper class

The Democrats need a VP nominee who represents the future. They don’t seem to have one

This preening egotist is the anti-Ron Paul

The divide between the professional and servant classes has never been more stark

The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre

A vote for her is the clearest possible vote against the war party