As I write this, it’s just a few days until the crucial Wisconsin primary, and the impossible is seemingly in play: Donald Trump trailing Ted Cruz by ten points in the polls there. Is the so-called “Trump slump” real? The so-called Republican Establishment is hoping
Terrifying in some circles, hotly desired in others: the party divided by a populist revolution and defeated by an electorate that cannot unify behind the eventual candidate. Do you think I mean the Republicans? Yes. But also the Democrats. Most of the 2016 excitement in both
In the Good Old Days that Donald Trump talks about at rallies, jackboots are apparently the style. And I say “are” because those times never actually were. Like so many other historical fantasies, such as Saint Ronnie or the success of trickle down economics, they exist only in the
And when chemotherapy fails, what’s left—Kryptonite? There’s no easy cure for the cancer that is metastasizing in the Republican Party right now. As you may have read in more than a few opinion pieces, GOP presidential candidate and front runner Donald Trump is the natural end
In my previous post, I quoted MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd speculating that the period before the South Carolina primary—now a mere memory—would be like a Quentin Tarantino movie, with the main players pointing guns in each other’s faces. And firing. He wasn’t wrong, and that week
When I think that political discourse has hit a new low--twice a week these days--I sometimes remind myself of the brutal caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1856. The subject was slavery. Sumner was nearly killed and his attacker, Representative
Schadenfreude [shahd-n-froi-duh] noun. Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune. Serve it up ice cold! Tribal Council finally arrived. Two of ’em. And blood was spilled. South Carolina comes up next, and in Nevada another caucus with scarcely decipherable rules. Suddenly, everything is moving at top speed. We’ve
This is actually a treatment, the longer form that follows a successful pitch …because a treatment is longer and lots more fun and because I keep reading political articles that accept Trump as the Republican nominee. If that doesn't scare you, maybe this will
At 11:30 on New Year’s Eve, a friend asked me what actual “new” things would come in 2016. The political junkie in me rose up in excitement and
Steve Schlich writes fiction about software: "easy to use," "does what you want"—lies like that—for the mortgage money. For his soul, he writes fiction and music. Hobbies include webmaster for www.RodSerling.com. In 2004, he created www.NakedWashington.com, a website chronicling the naughty public art in Washington,
