Corbyn and Trump

When Corbyn promises to “break the grip of vested interests” he’s saying what Labour leaders have always said. The trouble is that it’s not very different from what Theresa May is saying, and she says it a bit better than he does. John Rentoul Source:…

After he became President in 1969, during his very first post-election session with Henry Kissinger, who would become his national security advisor, Nixon rebuked the Agency as a group of “Ivy League liberals” who lacked analytic integrity and had always opposed him politically. Like Trump,…

Trump won by a huge margin among whites — 63% to 31% among white men, 53% to 43% among white women. His appalling sexism made little difference: he led 62% to 34% among non-graduate white women. Even among the quarter of white men who hold…