Tag: dog whistle

House Speaker Paul Ryan is one of the most loathsome characters in Washington. But believe it or not, it was possible that the people...

Over the years, Fox News Channel has given us a lot of reasons to wonder where its standards are--or if it even has any...

Last week, Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois turned a lot of heads when he walked out of the House chamber while Donald Trump was...

The most unhinged moment from a Republican not named Donald Trump comes from, of all places, rural Arizona. The Congressman for much of that...

Donald Trump has demonstrated almost on a daily basis that he has no idea how a president is supposed to behave. He demonstrated that...

What if I told you that a right-wing radio host openly declared that "white power" was the only thing that keeps this country going?...

Georgia's 6th congressional district has long been considered a classic affluent suburban district in the South--that is, a district where Democrats usually get shot....

For most of the first months of the Donald Trump administration, the religious right has remained stoutly in the Donald's corner. Even though many...

You may recall that when Donald Trump came to West Michigan on Friday, he admitted that he wasn't really serious about having Hillary Clinton...

One of the few bright spots for the Democrats on Election Night came from my state of North Carolina. Specifically, the governor's race. Democratic state...

One of the bright spots on Election Night came in my state of North Carolina. Like most reality-based North Carolinians, I was crying tears...

Donald Trump began his campaign with a blatant appeal to bigotry of the worst type. If his final campaign ad of the 2016 cycle is...

Donald Trump has spent most of the campaign blowing dog whistles to his supporters. For instance, he's gone as far as to claim that...

By now, you know that Donald Trump claims that the women who have come forward to say he sexually assaulted them are lying because...

When we last heard from Pastor Mark Burns of Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina; one of Donald Trump's highest-profile black...

It's been clear that the folks at WikiLeaks are not the white hats they'd like you to think they are. For one thing, Julian Assange's...

If there was any doubt that the Republican Party has sold its soul to Donald Trump, it was wiped away on Wednesday morning. Less...

We knew that if Donald Trump succeeded in his bid to buy the Republican nomination, it would be only a matter of time before...

Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last few weeks ranting that federal judge Gonzalo Curiel should get bounced from the Trump...

Dog whistle politics involves using words and phrases that conjure up a specific scenario or a type of person without being too explicit about...