Ewan McGaughey (KCL): Fascism-Lite in America (or the Social Ideal of Donald Trump). Rise of Donald Trump tracks growing debate over global fascism. Pat Buchanan on the “Great White Hope”. Rosie Gray goes inside a white nationalist conference energized by Trump’s rise. The surge of Trump-fueled anti-Semitism is hitting Jewish reporters who cover him. This might be the darkest theory yet about why Donald Trump keeps winning. The worst of Wall Street: Meet Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s finance chairman. For a guy who yells about Washington and Wall Street money in politics, Donald Trump sure has a lot on insiders on his team. The good news is that Donald Trump’s campaign is an absolute strategic and managerial garbage fire. The truth is that the idea that Donald Trump, of all people, knows how to run the U.S. economy is ludicrous — but will voters ever recognize that truth? Turns out maybe Donald Trump doesn’t want to be president after all.
The idea that the differences between Obama and Clinton are big enough to be worth leaving the party over but the differences between Clinton and Trump are too minor to make the former worth supporting is even more ridiculous than the idea that the Democrat Party is suppressing America’s natural social democratic governing majority. Bernie, don’t do this: With a scorched-earth campaign against Clinton, Sanders is risking his party’s nominee, its coalition, and his message. Eric Levitz on how Bernie Sanders’s “scorched earth” strategy seems to be working. Everyday is a whining road: Is the Hillary Clinton campaign prepared for the possibility that Bernie Sanders may never actually concede? Robin Alperstein on becoming anti-Bernie.
