Thacher Report

Legacy Media, Meet Legacy Politics

It’s not considered biased to say we have a Legacy media anymore. It’s reality. The Web, apps, wifi and smartphones have transformed news publishing, broadcasts and cable.

What’s more interesting to observe is that the ideological choices of the Legacy media has accelerated the shift.

Are You Liberal, Conservative or Something New

Are You Liberal, Conservative or Something New

Honey, I Shrunk the Party

I hope you survive the sexist, veganophobic title and dated Gen-X reference

Welcome to the Anti-Democrats

The Democratic Party fails over and over and over again. If you believe in a classical Liberal Arts education that teaches you not much beyond the powers of critical thinking, try applying that skill to the Democratic Party's performance. 

The Left has no leaders and no ideas

Why would you listen to the left if you want new ideas?

Can Democrats Dialogue... and Win?

Democrats are now in a shrinking blue bubble. Most Democrats I encounter have never had sustained social contact with working class or Republican voters. They tend to denigrate Republican voters as being in a cult, stupid, gullible, racist or all of the above.

This does two things. It implicates the Democrat’s superiority, and it makes Republican voters undeserving of empathy or curiosity — they’re just the enemy. When they’re assassinated, no big deal. When they garner more votes than Democrats, there’s no lesson about how to appeal to more voters, it’s a harbinger of the End Times.

Tuesday was Good News for America

Step away from the partisan, sports-fan coverage "my team is better than your team" to see the positivity of the off year/odd year election results in a few states earlier this week

A New Unifier / Democratic Hyper-partisanship

A New Unifier / Democratic Hyper-partisanship

Beyond Blue Walls

What's it like outside the liberal Democratic party/mainstream media/academia fortress?

Minneapolis Illiberalism and Hamas Influencers

Two relatively quick observations about the unelected militias in Minneapolis and the sad fact that Hamas won the Democratic party but happily lost in Gaza