John Peeler: Acknowledging the widely suspected Intelligence Deficit in Washington, particularly in the White House, Trump tweeted, “I will be the only president in history to have prosthetic brains!!”
John Peeler
John Peeler is a retired professor of political science at Bucknell University, specializing in Latin American and international affairs. After growing up in Florida and Georgia, he moved north as a teenager, and began a lifelong leftward migration. He’s been writing primarily for LA Progressive since 2008. He continues to live in central Pennsylvania.
Of Walls, and Mending
John Peeler: This conservative agenda on immigration is part and parcel of the broader right-wing project of dismantling as much as possible of the New Deal and Great Society reforms of the 1930s and 1960s.
Venezuela: Model for Taking Down Leftists in Latin America
John Peeler: While most leftist governments in Latin America have been competent managers of their national economies, even in the face of US hostility, Chávez and especially Maduro have been egregiously incompetent.
The Hole: Trump’s No-Win Dilemma
John Peeler: A deal with the Democrats that would actually fly would have to include a more permanent fix for the immigrants than the three year truce that Trump offered.
Southern Nation
John Peeler: In Congress, as the book demonstrates with careful analysis of hundreds of roll-call votes, every reform was shaped to allow the southern power structure to continue its domination of African Americans.
The Regency: Government by Minders
John Peeler: Confronted with the threat that his base would abandon him if he failed to Build the Wall, Trump (in Mark Shields’ memorable words) “folded like a $2.00 suitcase.”
Trump and the Shutdown
John Peeler: He has a crisis that he invited, that he proudly offered to own, that inherently requires negotiation, and he cannot negotiate.
Mattis Resigns: On Dismounting Tigers
John Peeler: Every major postwar US military intervention has been stalemated at best, defeated at worst. Sending in the troops almost always turns out to have been a bad idea.
Alternate Universe: Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform—With Trump On Board
John Peeler: The sheer cost of all those prison cells, care, feeding, guarding, came to be seen as a prime place to cut federal expenditures. In days of yore, all that was seen as a sign of how tough on crime we were.
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
John Peeler: Ta-Nehisi Coates has become perhaps our age’s preeminent black public intellectual, able to speak not only to African Americans but importantly to whites as well, to get across hard truths that even liberal whites don’t like to confront.
Temperate Words from the Hard Right
John Peeler: Lately he has been criticizing Trump’s rhetoric and policies regarding immigration, arguing that Christianity teaches us that we should welcome and support noncriminal immigrants
Khashoggi, the Saudis and the Arab Winter
John Peeler: The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the Kingdom’s refusal to be accountable for it, and Trump’s refusal to hold them to account signal a sinister turn to an even darker Middle East.
The Pelosi Conundrum
John Peeler: Republican strategists know that Pelosi is tough, experienced, and knows how Washington works. That is precisely why they have to demonize her.
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