From ThinkProgress, America is supposed to be a democracy, so why do we still have caucuses? If you want to encourage people to have a voice in your party process, the last system you want to design is caucuses. Felix Salmon on how the delegate system works makes no democratic sense. Top conservatives gather to plot third-party run against Trump. Adelson signals support for Trump: “Why not?” Walter E. Block and Donald Miller are starting up a new group to be called Libertarians for Trump. Jennifer N. Victor on the clockwork rise of Donald Trump and reorganization of American parties. Introducing Donald Trump’s fire-eaters: How the Republican Party made the mob that the GOP frontrunner exploits. Abraham Lincoln warned us about Donald Trump: Philip Gourevitch on how Donald Trump inspires a lawlessness that Lincoln saw as the most pressing threat to the republic.
National Review’s revolt against the masses: Thanks to Donald Trump, the conservative journal is regressing to the aristocratic conservatism of its founder William Buckley. The reason Republicans let a non-issue like Mexican immigration destroy their party is racism. Jelani Cobb on Donald Trump, a frightening window into the American present. Donald Trump is making conservatives turn on the white working class. Donald Trump is thriving because nobody else speaks up for conservative globalization skeptics.
Mark Thoma on rising insecurity and the rise of Trump and Sanders. Katherine Cramer on what Trump is telling resentful Americans (and Sanders is not). Jim Tankersley on the new Democratic Party proposal to rival Bernie Sanders’s socialism. Michael Schulson on the moral vision of Bernie Sanders. Deborah Tannen on the self-fulfilling prophecy of disliking Hillary Clinton. Looking for a president made with 100 percent natural ingredients: What are we even saying when we say someone isn't a natural politician?
