Brussels In the United States, real populists, meaning candidates who really believe in the people, rather than being demagogues and wannabe-autocrats, believed in the initiative and recall process, solidified in a number of states in the Progressive Era, more than one-hundred years ago. Certainly, not all states have them. They were in fact more …
Category: Ballot
Beware Business on the Ballot: Marijuana and Lotteries
Marble Falls In nineteen states and the District of Columbia, recreational marijuana has been legalized. Another five states have the issue on the ballot during the midterms: Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. You’d think that if you added all of that up, it would look like half of the United …
Republican Trumpism
Marble Falls Trumpism is hard to define, perhaps impossible, largely because it’s mainly about whatever former President Donald Trump says or thinks at the time, which may be changing by the minute or more likely by his last breath spitting out the words. Regardless of whether it’s possible to define Trumpism, it’s definitely …