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Steven L. Taylor
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

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  1. BugManDan says:

    I think it was on here that someone said they used to feel sorry for Melania, but not anymore. And to that I say Amen. I don’t believe that it is possible to be that oblivious while living in the WH.

  2. BugManDan says:

    The LGM note is absolutely absurd.

  3. Scott says:

    @BugManDan: I’ve long been of the opinion that First Ladies (or soon Gentlemen) should not be part of the Presidential election package. If they don’t want to participate in the Presidency, they should have that right. But once they interview, write a book, hideously and publicly redecorate the White House, then they have entered the public domain and are subject to public scrutiny.

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  4. Kathy says:

    @BugManDan:

    Maybe there’s no WiFi in the trophy case she’s kept in.

  5. CSK says:

    The reviews of Melania are uniformly and hilariously bad.

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  6. gVOR10 says:

    @CSK:

    The reviews of Melania are uniformly and hilariously bad.

    Which reminds me, Boris Johnson has a memoir out.

  7. Gustopher says:

    Trump isn’t flirting with race science, he’s a dog humping the leg of race science. He doesn’t have the ability to understand it, it’s awful anyway, but he so likes it. Flirtation suggests a level of understanding that he just doesn’t have.

    Seriously, does anyone think Donald Trump would know what to do with calipers and a human skull?

    Tom Buchanan, from The Great Gatsby*, was a horrible person with absolutely terrible views on race, but at least he understood the wildly incorrect theories he read about and kept bringing up. Trump doesn’t read. Trump doesn’t go beyond “we is good, they is bad.”

    *: that book is wild. It’s a slender book all about white people, but still has time for lots of racism. I’m a big fan of the interpretation that Gatsby was a light-skinned African-American passing for White. And that Nick was in love with Gatsby.

    And that Gatsby was colorblind, mistaking red lights for green lights — both at the end of the pier, and at intersections while driving. Everything was telling him to stop, but he just couldn’t see it.

    It’s a much better book if you just throw out any and all author’s intent.

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  8. dazedandconfused says:
  9. Just nutha ignint cracker says:

    @Gustopher:

    I’m a big fan of the interpretation that Gatsby was a light-skinned African-American passing for White. And that Nick was in love with Gatsby.

    I LOVE THIS INTERPRETATION! I wish I had known about it when I was teaching high school.

    (My only objection is that the link I was able to get to quickly named Jordan Baker, not Jay and no mention of Nick loving Jay. But those are quibbles.)

    ETA: “It’s a much better book if you just throw out any and all author’s intent.”
    I think so, too. It has something in common with the Constitution in that way.

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