Isaac Laquedem

If this were 1872, the Democratic party's leadership would . . .

The efforts of the Democratic party leadership, abetted by elements of the eastern press, to promote billionaire Michael Bloomberg as the man who can defeat Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination and then go on to expel self-identified billionaire Donald Trump from the White House in the November election made me imagine that, if 150 years ago Daniel Drew (image credit) had connived his way into the Oval Office, the party leadership would have recruited Jay Gould to run for the office, not just to oust Drew but to prevent an actual reformer from winning.

Let's make America great again works . . . only if you first define what was great about the past

A question for people who want to make America great again, the stuff of story and legend: what are you looking forward to?

The Depression as depicted by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath"? Unsafe food and 12-hour workdays, as described by Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle"? Slavery (oops: I meant "the involuntarily sharing economy"), as limned by Harriet Beecher Stowe in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Or the days of honest graft, as explained by George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall?  Or all of the above?