"How Cory Booker went from Progress Hero to Traitor in Under 2 Days"
1. How does Paste Magazine characterize Cory Booker?
Booker appears to agree with popular stances on social issues to garner positive publicity regardless of his past stances, but then turn around and align with corporate interests among Democratic financial elites.
2. Why did Cory Booker vote against an amendment that seems like it would help people?
His state of New Jersey is concentrated with pharmaceutical companies and he often aligns himself with corporate interests.
3. How does Cory Booker justify his vote publicly?
He had concerns over the safety of drugs imported from Canada.
4. Where does Cory Booker get his campaign funding from?
He gets funding from pharmaceutical companies.
5. What else, besides sources of campaign funding, may impact his vote?
He has allies on Wall Street and has to please his constituency which depends on the pharma industry for jobs and wealth.
6. Why did Cory Booker testify against Jeff Sessions?
He did so to make him seem like a Progressive and make him more popular among the people.
7. Why would this impact his "national ambitions"?
Having positive national attention can shift his presence from the scope of his state/constituency to a national scale.
8. How do his ties to industry & special interest jeopardize those?
However, Booker alienates true progressives with his ties to his big business allies and loyalty to his state since it depends on the pharma industry.
"Trump's Governing Strategy is Taking Shape-- and It Could be a Political Winner"
9. What will serve as Trump's "bully pulpit"?
Social media, especially his lovely, lovely, tweets that are always in all caps and end in an exclamation mark as if he never stops yelling when he talks, and through his own staged events.
10. How are Trump's nominations serving to keep his party happy?
His appointments have all been far-right or highly conservative people who would doggedly defend the GOP agenda.
11. Why is it important that Trump gets more attention than the policies he is likely to enact?
He knows that the majority of the country disapprove or hate him, so his goal is to win over some favor of the people.
12. Why would Trump meet with high profile candidates like Al Gore, but chose someone else for the job?
It gives him good publicity and makes him seem like he is moderate and reasonable, which diminishes the deep dislike for him among the public. However, he'll just turn around and appoint hard-right people.
13. In what ways might the role of the Cabinet change under a Trump presidency?
The power may be shifted back to the Cabinet whereas in the recent years under Obama, more power has been delegated to the WH staff.
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