Let's not forget: the US Senate is up for grab, with plenty of Tea Party victors of 2010 up for re-election in a political environment very different from that of 2010.
Mitch McConnell made a high-stake, low reward bet on being able to hold off until January 2011 to replace Antonin Scalia I am not much of a gambler, but I am good at probabilistic theory -- and making a high-stakes gamble for a very low reward is a very bad bet. So let Obama nominate a moderate. Donald Trump shows no sign of winning the Presidency, and the Republicans have a high chance of losing at least four Senate seats net with Hillary Clinton as President. Republicans risk a wave election this year, and they should have been grasping onto ane edge that they could.
Mitch McConnell made a high-stake, low reward bet on being able to hold off until January 2011 to replace Antonin Scalia I am not much of a gambler, but I am good at probabilistic theory -- and making a high-stakes gamble for a very low reward is a very bad bet. So let Obama nominate a moderate. Donald Trump shows no sign of winning the Presidency, and the Republicans have a high chance of losing at least four Senate seats net with Hillary Clinton as President. Republicans risk a wave election this year, and they should have been grasping onto ane edge that they could.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.