Tag: Donald Trump
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Using democracy to kill democracy—Trump takes a redistricting trick from Viktor Orbán
Democrats’ unilateral disarmament via independent redistricting commissions is coming back to haunt them
By Steven Hill, DemocracySOS, August 6, 2025
It’s “drive off the cliff” time again in America’s casino democracy. The Trump racketeers have a plan to swipe votes from Americans in order to keep their bare GOP House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.…
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Trump’s Health Care Law Could Double Premiums for Millions by 2026
Millions of Americans face skyrocketing premiums as ACA subsidies expire under Trump’s new law.
By Steven Hill, The Fulcrum, July 29, 2025
Media coverage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) mostly focused on the deep cuts coming to Medicaid, which will potentially result in an estimated 10 to 12 million low-income and disabled Americans losing their health care access.…
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Democrats are their own worst enemy
Democrats often oppose political reforms that would both empower voters AND help Democrats
By Steven Hill, DemocracySOS, July 22, 2025
Democratic leaders are rightfully assailing President Donald Trump over his many anti-democratic transgressions. But they should look in the mirror. Because on many occasions, Democrats have had a chance to improve and open up our democracy, and make it work better for regular people, but more often than not they have refused to do so.…
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Another nail in Democracy’s coffin: “crafted talk” and “simulated responsiveness”
Steven Hill, DemocracySOS, July 14, 2025
For both Republicans and Democrats, politics has become a tricky balancing act. In their never-ending bid to win elections and governing majorities, both the major political parties are caught between the poles of their most partisan base voters and undecided swing voters. In the 49-49 nation, whichever political party can sufficiently stimulate its spectrum of voters, wins.…
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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: Hidden Cuts, Legislative Tricks, and Who Really Pays the Price
By Steven Hill, The Fulcrum, July 12, 2025
President Donald Trump received a great Fourth of July present — he signed his administration’s signature piece of federal legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is a sweeping tax cut and spending package. The law makes Trump’s massive 2017 tax cuts permanent and boosts defense and border patrol funding.…
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Project 2025: The Federal Reserve
By Steven Hill, The Fulcrum, September 9, 2024
This is part of a series offering a nonpartisan counter to Project 2025, a conservative guideline to reforming government and policymaking during the first 180 days of a second Trump administration. The Fulcrum’s cross partisan analysis of Project 2025 relies on unbiased critical thinking, reexamines outdated assumptions, and uses reason, scientific evidence, and data in analyzing and critiquing Project 2025.…
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How Trump could win the GOP nomination–again
By Steven Hill, DemocracySOS, March 23, 2023
Like in 2016, the pathway to the nomination is clear due to the “winner take all” rules in most GOP states; RCV would ensure a true majority of GOP primary voters prevail
Donald Trump seems to be showing up more and more in the headlines these days.…
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How we can tame the wild west of Big Tech media?
By Steven Hill, Mercury News, Jan 27, 2021
Why do so many people, including both former President Donald Trump and new President Joe Biden, keep talking about getting rid of an obscure law called Section 230?
The short answer is that Section 230, part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, is the legal underpinning for one of the largest and most consequential experiments in American history.…
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How to avoid another 2020 election meltdown
By Steven Hill, Salon, Nov. 27, 2020
The U.S.’s embarrassing problems with something as basic as voter registration should serve as a wake-up call
Throughout the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the ghosts of 2000, hanging chads and Bush v. Gore were rapping loudly at the door.
For many members of the American public, voting has become a confusing ritual, even if one does not take the latest twist into account — a president who refused to accept that he lost the election.…
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The Red Mirage
By Steven Hill, The Globalist, October 13, 2020
What happens if Trump declares victory on election night, and tries to dispute any “late” uncounted ballots — both in the courts and in the free-for-all of public opinion?
So imagine this Nightmare Scenario: With so many more Biden supporters voting by mail in a close election, it is likely President Trump will be ahead on election night, based on partial returns in a number of battleground states (a scenario that has been called “a red mirage”).…