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Election preview: United States

Election day is finally here, with the US set to elect its first female president. Here's what to watch for.

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Charles Richardson Elections, United States 1 Comment 9 November 2016

Responsibility for Trump: Part II

Only so much responsibility attaches to party leaders; ultimately the voters are the ones who decide. In America they have decided to mostly stick with their respective parties, and nobody really seems to know why.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 3 Comments 8 November 201628 January 2022

Responsibility for Trump: Part I

Far too few conservatives have spoken out against Donald Trump, and even those that have need to look more searchingly in the mirror.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 5 Comments 7 November 201628 January 2022

Libertarians vs conservatives – an update

Young libertarians and conservatives attend another debate, and tell us what they think. It's interesting, and disturbing.

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Charles Richardson Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 2 Comments 19 August 201628 January 2022

Two lectures, or how libertarians lost the plot

The rise of Donald Trump shows why we can't rely on libertarians to defend liberty.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 6 Comments 8 August 201628 January 2022

Racism and the Republicans

Decisions on voting rights provide further evidence for the centrality of race to the Republican identity.

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Charles Richardson Electoral law, Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 1 Comment 3 August 201628 January 2022

How UKIP saved the world (sort of)

Another way of looking at the Trump-Brexit analogy.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, France, Ideas, Party matters, United States 1 Comment 1 August 201628 January 2022

Race and the Republicans

The history of the last fifty years in the Republican party shows how the conservative movement sowed the seeds of its own destruction. It's not clear how it can ever be rebuilt.

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Charles Richardson Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 1 Comment 29 July 201628 January 2022

World election news

A roundup of election news from Austria, the United States, Mongolia and Australia.

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Charles Richardson Australia, East Asia, Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters, United States 1 Comment 15 July 2016

Is it 1964 all over again?

Donald Trump's train wreck of a campaign raises thoughts of 1964, the last time the Democrats won a landslide.

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