Peter Dreier: For the past few months, Trump has been using his campaign to set the stage for a new white supremacist right-wing media empire.
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier teaches Politics and chairs the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His most recent book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books, 2012)
Peter Dreier’s Voting Guide
Peter Dreier: For your consideration, here are my recommendations for candidates and the long list of statewide ballot initiatives
Anthony Portantino for State Senate
Peter Dreier: Anthony Portantino is a likable and sensible local leader, and an effective problem-solver, who combines progressive values, independence, and good judgment.
Dr. Seuss Would Have Ripped “The Donald”
Peter Dreier: Geisel would no doubt make fun of Trump’s lust for fame and power and his climb to the top of his real estate empire on the backs of his employees — waiters, dishwashers and plumbers, among others — and contractors whom he stiffed by failing to pay them for services they rendered
Keeping Track of Trump’s Scandals and Insults
Peter Dreier: Supporters of Hillary Clinton seem to believe that each Trump scandal adds to voters’ negative assessment of his fitness to be president, like a snowball that gets bigger and bigger as it rolls downhill. But that doesn’t seem to be happening.
Grassroots Activists, Elizabeth Warren Put Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf on Hot Seat
Peter Dreier: Stumpf will be asked how Wells Fargo employees were able to fraudulently open more than two million fake credit card and checking accounts without the knowledge of top management.
Trump Mega-Donor Also LA’s Most Controversial Developer
Peter Dreier: Real-estate developer Geoff Palmer has a lot in common with Donald Trump, including a controversial record of lawsuits and real estate dealings that invariably put the wealthy first.
Record Number of Women May Serve in Senate
Peter Dreier: It’s well known that Hillary Clinton may make history as the nation’s first woman president, but less noticed are the many women running for Senate this year, who may break a record of their own.
Trump Touts Pledge of Allegiance with Socialist Roots
Peter Dreier: Donald Trump’s vision of America clashes sharply with the original intent behind the Pledge of Allegiance, penned during the Gilded Age to promote equity, tolerance, and progressive ideals.
Donald Trump TV
Peter Dreier: Together, Trump, Ailes and Bannon would run their media empire to advance their common goals: gaining political influence, massaging their massive egos, moving the Republican Party further to the right, attacking Democrats and liberal ideas, and promoting a neo-fascist agenda combining xenophobia, racism, sexism, government-bashing, and anti-immigrant nativism.
Hillary Hits a Triple
Peter Dreier: Her references to our Founding Fathers, and her reference to the Broadway show “Hamilton,” reminded us that all progressive change involves compromise and negotiation, which is not the same thing as capitulating or selling out.
Mike Antonovich: Fired Up With No Place to Go
Peter Dreier: Mike Antonovich, who has represented the district for 36 years, just got around to recommending that the county lease super scoopers year-round to help fight the dangerous blazes.
In An Age of Donald, We Need Woody
Peter Dreier: If Woody Guthrie, America’s most revered troubadour for social justice, were still alive he would no doubt be celebrating his 104th birthday today by writing songs about Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants, Muslims, the physically handicapped, and other groups and about the growing Black Lives Matter movement against police racism.
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