politicalowl

A good read this morning from Bradford DeLong - one of my favourite bloggers NAIL 'EM UP!!!! : "Methinks it is time to go reread Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men again..." Just a sample from quite a long piece that's worth spending time on. First an extract from Molly Ball: How Sarah Palin Created Donald Trump : To find a home in the then-nascent organs of the GOP fever swamps, which, as McKay Coppins has noted, Trump savvily courted for years before launching the current campaign.... Palin’s people are Trump’s people. Now, as Trump and Cruz battle for the nomination, the right is split between its policy commitments and its attitudinal id. Palin has made her choice—and now she may finally get her chance to be Vice President... Then DeLong descibes a dinner with a very old, very good friend—one not born and raised in the United States, and not a political junkie . He asked me what he should think of American politics in view of the rise and d...