Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: donald trump

  • Were we wrong about Trump?

    A few thoughts expanded from my Twitter yesterday, on the number of leftwingers or liberals who I see saying things like “Oh, Donald Trump has calmed down since winning, he’s…


  • On Trump

    Similarities to any previous posts are entirely coincidental. I was discussing Brexit Trump with a group of Wellington lefties last night over a few craft beers* and was dismayed to…


  • Why would progressives vote for Trump?

    [A note in hindsight: this post was published in April 2016, a good amount of time before it became crystal clear that Trump is a goddamned Nazi-enabling rule-of-law-trashing fascist. And…


  • Nobody is entitled to votes

    I caught the tail-end of a conversation on Twitter yesterday about the presidential primaries in the US, and the mathematical impossibility of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination. The case…