Hillary Clinton made plenty of tactical and strategic missteps in her bid for the White House. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
On op-ed pages and around dinner tables, Americans have substantive conversations about politics. And while the facts aren't always right, the discussion… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
After embracing the Republican congressional agenda, Trump can't run on building infrastructure and protecting retirement programs. But he still has racism. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
This vision of Trump as tribune of the 'real America' has trickled down from Trump's most devoted acolytes to the rest of… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
When it became clear to Vance that Trump was the only game in town on his side of the aisle, he did… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The myth of Donald Trump is that he is immune to scandal - that there's nothing he could say or do that… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump. There was no breathing room - no calm… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
With or without Trump, a Republican Party that cannot share this country with its political opponents is a Republican Party that will… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
American presidents are moral leaders and role models as much as they're political leaders and heads of state - they are meant… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Everything that made Trump a bad president the first time around promises to make him an even worse one in a second… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
It is normal for political parties to be vigilant and aggressive about their electoral interests. But Trump and the GOP have gone… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump ran as the embodiment of the legitimate people of the United States. He governed on behalf of those people - a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump does not gain strength with every attempt to place limits on his behavior. Accountability does not jolt him into political action.… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The Republican Party never moved on from Nixon's 'silent majority,' from the notion that it alone represents the supposedly authentic people of… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump obviously believes his strategy of riling voters up with bigotry is effective. What's striking is the political press agrees with him. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who thinks that Joe Biden is going to somehow drop dead in the middle of being president. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is often derided as a man of impulse and ego without conviction or belief. This is true on most questions… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
We don't live in a party system where political parties have that kind of control of authority or authority over the people… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The transformation of the GOP into a parliamentary-style party primarily responsive to donors, right-wing activists, and conservative media is arguably the central… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In the years since he came on the scene as the author of a best-selling memoir, Vance has transformed himself from a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If Trump wins a second term, there is a real chance that it will empower presidential lawlessness of a kind that no… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Voter identification laws are tied to a sordid history of discrimination and vote suppression, but even procedures as uncontroversial as voter registration… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump is a glorified bully. And like all bullies, he wilts in the face of anyone willing to stand up and say… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
At the level of state politics, Republican-led legislatures and Republican executive officials are adopting a politics of expulsion that targets sexual minorities… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Political parties do not want to win solely for the sake of winning; they want to win so that their coalition can… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Stoking white fear and resentment works well enough to energize a powerful electoral coalition and secure critical victories, and unless Democrats can… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If Trump wants to serve a second term in the Oval Office, he needs to persuade the same voters who denied him… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a trial and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
By no means is Trump the first president or even the first Republican president to abuse the power of the office in an effort… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
For liberals in particular, the idea that government is only hypocrisy and dysfunction is self-defeating and nihilistic. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering Republicans and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part of the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have always come… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to shrink the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
The ring, in 'The Lord of the Rings,' represents power in all of its terrible glory. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
As long as voting is voluntary, young people will likely always vote at lower rates than their older counterparts. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share
