Charlie Baker, like the Republican Party nationally, doesn’t know what to do about Donald Trump. Like a runaway train, Trump increasingly seems like he’s headed for victory in today’s Super Tuesday primaries, which would put him in the driver’s seat to win the Republican nomination for president. Baker is a moderate and substantive Republican who […]
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Outsiders are in
New Hampshire voters did not deliver a shocker yesterday as much as they put an exclamation mark on the wacky ways of the 2016 presidential race. Donald Trump’s solid win in the Republican primary and Bernie Sanders’s blowout victory over Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side were the outcomes expected — and predicted by polls. […]
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Trump and The Surprise Doctrine
The Boston Globe’s Ideas section on Sunday offered a look at Donald Trump’s America. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot to it because Trump is so adept at talking in an entertaining way without saying much of substance. The Globe’s Alex Kingsbury, in a letter to his editor, said he had been unable to complete […]
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The “logic” of Trump
Donald Trump came to Lowell on Monday, packing the Tsongas Center and once again befuddling those who ask, perfectly legitimately, why so many people are drawn to a candidate who spends so much time talking about himself. Trump is a showman whose idea of digging into the substance of issues was highlighted on Monday by […]
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Trump knows what he’s doing
For months, Donald Trump has been defending his plan to deport illegal immigrants by following the lead of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who took action to oust 1.5 million undocumented aliens in 1953. It was a calculated determination by Trump to invoke the name of America’s favorite general because, after all, who doesn’t like Ike and his […]