Two things can be true at the same time: Our current president is a disaster. And so was his predecessor.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Fossel ignores reality in Biden column
It’s not the president who has failed to deliver unity, but congressional Republicans who fear Trump’s wrath.
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Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: From hating Democrats to hating democracy
Maine Republicans were spreading the ‘Big Lie’ long before Donald Trump appeared on the scene.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: He spoke truth to democracy’s real power – you
Unlike today’s Washington Republican elites, Colin Powell had the guts to tell the American public what was self-evident.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Healthy democracies can’t discriminate against independent candidates, voters
Make primaries nonpartisan; standardize ballot and financing rules, and include all general election candidates in public debates.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Don’t be afraid of the election audits – they may be our only ticket out of this mess
Trump’s ‘big lie’ undermines democracy and will hurt Republicans more than Democrats.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Texas upends the Republican ‘leave us alone coalition’
The state’s restrictive abortion law threatens to destroy an uneasy truce among several factions of the conservative movement.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Republicans should be the party of local control
But the party of small government is all too willing to interfere on the municipal level when it’s in their interest.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
As deadline nears, panel provides no details for redrawing Maine’s voting districts
The special legislative commission had little for the public to weigh in on Friday when it held its first public hearing on the redistricting.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Republican group held ‘war games’ for state attorneys general before Trump loss
An offshoot of the Republican Attorneys General Association held a special meeting weeks before the election to discuss its strategies if then-President Donald Trump lost.