Progressive Political News

With all the noise made about Nancy Pelosi being a resistance hero who is supposedly out maneuvering Donald Trump at every turn, it turns out that the Democratic Party leader isn't actually that well liked by Americans. The "Patron Saint of Shade", a nickname given to Pelosi by her most devoted followers, has an extremely loyal following within the Democratic Party, so much so that people like Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos embarrassingly hand delivered a thousand red roses to Nancy Pelosi's office. However, for all the sycophantic devotion to Pelosi that keeps her in power, Americans as a whole are extremely unsatisfied with Nancy Pelosi and her performance when it comes to opposing President Trump. According to the RCP Polling Averages, current President Donald Trump's approval rating currently sits at an average of 44.3% and an average disapproval rating of 50.6%, a minus 6.3% approval rating overall. With Pelosi, the numbers are even worse . Pelo...

CNN journalist Chris Cillizza has spent most of his recent journalistic career being ridiculed on social media from all sides of the political spectrum due to his incredibly awful takes, seemingly living by the manta of 'well, if everyone hates me I must be doing something right!' Even fellow mainstream liberal journalists such as Charles Pierce and Todd Zwillich have asked Cillizza if he ever "spends a second critically thinking" and claiming Cillizza is "completely incapable of critical thought." When looking for things to write about, I often save pictures or keep bookmarks of things that I think could be interesting topics to comment on and after digging through the previously saved pictures I found an old Cillizza Democratic Primary 'Power Rankings' that was published at the very start of the primary process and thought it would be interesting to see how his predictions have held up over time. Now, we've all made predictions that hav...