Greg Dworkin

Newtown

Contributing Editor at Daily Kos

Contributing editor, Daily Kos. Recently retired doctor. Personal account, reflecting my own view. https://t.co/MFW4T52r3U @demfromct.bsky.social

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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: It's not you that's nuts. It's the White House.

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees. We are throwing the most advanced health science research system into the sea and have turned over our public health infrastructure to quacks and crooks. We are destroying our prosperity to sate the president’s desire to play at 19th century political economy.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When we was fab

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive. If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the abrupt abrogation of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans legally living and working in the United States seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Not every conservative loves the Big Ugly Bill

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The Megabill Is a Total Bust, According to the GOP’s Leading Economic Populist Oren Cass says the Republican Party still has a long way to go in achieving its promise under Donald Trump “I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making,” said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: How elections are won-and lost

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The 2024 election was even weirder than we thought An expansive new report challenges early theories about how Donald Trump won. This is where Catalist’s estimates, which blend complex voter file modeling with large-scale survey data, provide a major boost.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Big Beautiful Bill stuck in the mud (but will pass)

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

Investors are wary of the fiscal risk. The prospect of adding significantly to the federal deficit has given the normally rock-solid market for U.S. government debt a roller coaster feel lately. Monday saw a rapid sell-off in 30-year Treasury bonds, in which yields jumped to their highest level since 2023 after Moody’s cut America’s triple-A credit rating on Friday. Things are quieter on Tuesday, with the 30-year Treasury at 4.93 percent. Analysts see a pattern.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Screwing the public by obscuring what the House is doing

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress. But the focus on the delays can be a bit of a distraction.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Regret? Embarrassment? It's something.

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

Do any Trump voters regret their choice? It's a hard question to answer. Our poll suggests many do. In a poll of 1,000 U.S. adults, I find that if you ask people simply how they would vote in a hypothetical election (not framed as regret), persistent voting for Trump is in fact significantly lower than persistent support for Kamala Harris. The percentage of Trump 2024 voters who say they'd vote for him again is just 86%. In comparison, Harris retains 92% of her prior voters.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's plane bribe scandal not slowing down

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

Some of the president’s biggest allies are panning his plan to accept the luxury aircraft. But in a rare moment of defiance, some of the loudest cries of protest about the possible gift are coming from some of Trump’s staunchest allies. “I think if we switched the names to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we’d all be freaking out on the right,” Ben Shapiro, a Daily Wire co-founder, said on his podcast. “President Trump promised to drain the swamp.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Egregious, widespread and deep-seated corruption

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

What Trump's Corruption Will Cost Us He has ascended to new heights of graft. The effects will be profound. In the first category, Trump has made sure to appoint to every key position people who believe that their leader should be free to engage in all the graft he likes.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The worst is by design

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power. The typical explanation is that he’s following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory. It’s not even close. Mr. Trump has gone beyond that or any other mainstream notion.