Keep it in Perspective

Let's break down these last two debates. CNN, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Don Lemon threw journalistic integrity to the wind and went right in for reality TV show optics. Interruptions and staged fights beat our thoughtful questions and meaningful exchanges. Meanwhile, about 18 different unqualified, unknown, or unsuited candidates sucked air out of the room, harming the chances of the eventu...

Today, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified for his 90th time before the House of Representatives. Though his testimony was complete and truthful, there of course were some - ehem - conclusions lacking. More striking still was that GOP Congressmembers were willing to forgo any inquiry into the facts and instead followed Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, and AM talk radio hosts down the conspira...

Last week's news was dominated by the two debates. While they were important to narrow down the choices for Democratic primary voters, they weren't the biggest news of the week - or even the month.  In the same week, the Supreme Court handed down critical decisions on gerrymandering and on the Trump administration's plan to add a discriminatory citizenship question to the US Census....

This week I speak with Dr. Richard Bruno. You may know him as the doctor in the long, white coat from those Bernie Sanders videos on Facebook where the US Senator from Vermont takes Americans over the border to Canada to check out the healthcare system there. To me though, Richard is a friend and a former client whose campaign for State Delegate (representative) in Maryland I managed in 2018. Dr....

This week I'm joined by Brittany (McCants) Garcia, a Washington, D.C. based attorney who has worked on Democratic and non-profit campaigns in the South and has spent years studying political theory, political philosophy, leadership and policy. During her studies at Howard University School of Law, she focused on civil rights, constitutional law and advocacy. We discuss the eerie parallels bet...

This week I'm joined by Diane May, Communications Director at Our Revolution, the organization that came out of Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign. We discuss what this new organization is doing for the upcoming primaries, what its members will do during the general election if their first choice, Bernie Sanders, does not secure the nomination, how Democrats should be approaching swin...

This week, I'm joined by my friend and fellow Democratic strategist Josh Nanberg of Ampersand Strategies to talk about the state of the 2020 Democratic field and the art of messaging in presidential politics. We take a look at how the candidates are using - or not using - effective messaging to distinguish themselves in a crowded field and at the excessive emphasis on personality over policy....

Back after a break and some serious rebranding, we're here with the first new episode of Keep it In Perspective, the podcast that takes the crazy of the day and puts it in perspective. This week, we're talking the Mueller report and Attorney General Bill Barr's shameless lying to the American people and their Senators before the Judiciary Committee. Of course, Trump's newest de...