Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: us presidential election

  • 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…


  • Untroll the internet: Pantsuit Nation

    Normally this would be an Untroll Thursday but I think we all need something to sooth our hearts before US election result anxiety explodes all over us. Vox reports on…


  • 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…


  • Inspiration for the day: Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders

    A great late-night YouTube find: Killer Mike of Run The Jewels talks to Bernie Sanders about politics, social justice, inequality. The six-parter starts here: My favourite quote, from part 2:…