John Stoehr

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I was wrong about this election. I was wrong about a bunch of things. Maybe I erred largely on the side of hoping too much. I hoped that most people in America understood that Donald Trump was the worst candidate of our lifetimes. And as a consequence of understanding that, I hoped that most people ...

The debate continues over why Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris. So far, it seems to be centered on two related arguments. One is that Harris didn’t do enough to appeal to white working-class voters and their concerns about the economy. So they voted for Trump. The other is that the Harris campaig...

Donald Trump has dominated Washington for nearly a decade. You'd think the Very Serious People who explain our politics to us would have figured him out by now.

Pundits can’t see it, but Wall Street does.

Their plain awfulness is the point.

There’s an argument I want to discuss. It goes something like this: Donald Trump’s policies are going to alienate some of the people who voted for him. To be sure, many of them wanted something done about the economy. Prices were too damn high. But they didn’t sign up for tariffs, deportations and c...

It takes time for things to stick properly, so please bear with me while I say again that Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of things she said. She lost because of things Donald Trump said she said.So Democratic Party critics are basing their criticism not on what Harris said but on wh...

This is what they wanted. I think the American people, especially those who supported the second candidacy of Donald Trump , deserve an explanation.

For now, I’m not getting involved in the debate over what Kamala Harris did wrong. For one thing, whatever conclusions are drawn now will almost certainly be forgotten by the time of the next election. For another, the debate takes vital attention away from the choice of the majority of American vot...