Newt Gingrich: "What you have is a coup being orchestrated by left-wingers in the bureaucracy, left-wingers in the news media, and left-wingers in the House Democrats." pic.twitter.
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Left-wingers are increasingly interested in taking charge of monetary policy.
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The haters, left wingers and the Democrats are all proven wrong.
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Left-wingers the world over are taking note, and taking heart.
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He has kept several left-wingers and Correa allies in his cabinet.
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Right-wingers wanted to maximize economic choice and left-wingers lifestyle choice.
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Left-wingers like Gleisi Hoffmann, the party's president, have talked of pardoning Lula.
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Research from the 2015 election suggests left-wingers are the loudest and proudest.
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But I'm here to tell all the left wingers out there, calm down.
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I think she's very appealing to a small base of very radical left-wingers.
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One answer might be: Left wingers are more intelligent than their right-wing counterparts.
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In the early Nazi years left-wingers, not Jews, bore the brunt of persecution.
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The player who leads all left wingers in points over the last three years.
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The two factors give left-wingers an edge when technology begins to change society.
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Left-wingers denounce moderates, and establishmentarians moan that the Democrats are yielding to extremists.
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For its centrists, some of the blame belongs to the left-wingers and their grouching.
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Left-wingers like Ocasio-Cortez have attracted so much attention because they're a new phenomenon.
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After rule by protectionist left-wingers, both now have governments that want to open up economically.
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Left-wingers backed the return of Skourides&apos property and urged Turkish Cypriots to show tolerance.
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That's why the Communists and left-wingers are pushing the stuff, they're trying to destroy us.
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The class-ridden incompetence of British post-war industrial management offered easy pickings for left-wingers.
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That's why west-coast left-wingers are shutting down the talks of professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Compared with left-wingers there—Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, for instance—Mr Sanders is no socialist.
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Some smug left-wingers will admire "Where to Invade Next", but they are already convinced anyway.
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There were other forces in the mix — the military, the old nationalists, the left-wingers/communists.
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Left wingers Marko Dano and Andrew Copp and center Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets.
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Which in turn will bring along all the other Democratic left-wingers and their media allies.
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For the left wingers eager to notch this hollow victory against Trump, the message is attached.
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But there's also been a backlash to that backlash, left-wingers criticizing Bernie for backing down.
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Those people are reluctant to join left-wingers in lambasting Mr Temer and his pro-market reforms.
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On February 23rd Iain McNicol, the moderate general-secretary, resigned after months of criticism from left-wingers.
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Like other hardline French left-wingers, Hamon says Hollande eroded the spending power of the working class.
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"Show me the really left, left, left-wingers who beat a Republican," Biden told reporters on Friday.
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Just recently, Jewish Israelis ranked "left wingers" as one of the groups contributing least to Israel's success.
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The data simply show that most left-wingers who criticise Israel do not dislike Jews as people.
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Though the issue split the ruling conservatives, her steely persuasion rallied centrists and left-wingers behind the bill.
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He has friends in the private sector, but also among left-wingers who fell out with Mr Correa.
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They had to agree with certain policies, such as changing the constitution, that in effect excluded left-wingers.
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During the Cold War, federal polygraph tests were used to target left-wingers and homosexuals in government agencies.
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So she and Sanders jetted around the country, endorsing left-wingers sure to lose in a general election.
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Then he teaches them how to act like a left-wingers, starting by having them compliment each other.
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The past few years have seen extraordinary changes in how left-wingers, liberals, and liberal centrists understand themselves.
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HANNITY: -- and call these people out for being liars and an extension of the Democratic Party and left wingers.
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Left-wingers preferred Ms Yellen, in part because she seemed more likely to give jobs priority over stable prices.
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Left-wingers often cite the adage that patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel — and with good reason.
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She appears relatively inoffensive to left-wingers, while hewing as close to the centre as her party's leftward drift allows.
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Even left-wingers often equate the worst excesses of the elite that they attack with the behavior of elite females.
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Some left-wingers, such as Britain's Jeremy Corbyn, imagine that Venezuela's "Bolivarian revolution" is a promising experiment in social justice.
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AS THE 2020 Democratic primary heats up, a brace of left-wingers are fighting over who can be more radical.
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Reasons to be negative: To get Larsson, the Oilers traded one of the NHL's best left wingers in Taylor Hall.
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Some left-wingers argue that Latin America should abandon large-scale extractive industries altogether, saying they are inimical to development.
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Those movements that survived to form dictatorial governments embraced a corporatist sort of capitalism, and set about killing left-wingers.
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Left-wingers could be right-wingers, and a goalie could even be an attacker, using his feet for a change.
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" Cruz said "left-wingers" believe in staying neutral in the conflict because "they buy into the media's false moral equivalency.
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House Republicans are already painting vulnerable Democrats as radical left-wingers, tying them to Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.
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The decision almost tore the government apart, as left-wingers such as Tony Benn pressed the case for a siege economy.
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Given Mr Biden's weakness, true left-wingers such as Elizabeth Warren have meanwhile had a free run at framing the debate.
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Democrats are significantly less likely to call themselves liberals (as Americans call left-wingers) than Republicans are to consider themselves conservative.
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The true liberals in the party jostle with left-wingers, including Tim Farron, who is leading them to a dreadful result.
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It is ironic to see many right-wingers criticizing overreach by law enforcement, while many left-wingers now defend such overreaching.
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But Democrats found themselves on the defensive after left-wingers pushed for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Rep.
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Police in fact evicted right-wingers from Emancipation Park, and the only left-wingers armed with guns appeared to be blocks away.
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Having sounded unenthusiastic about the Green New Deal preached by left-wingers, he was asked in Pennsylvania how he would change it.
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Left-wingers tell you what you&aposre allowed to think, what you&aposre allowed to do, what you&aposre allowed to say.
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More worrisome for Hollande, the poll showed that view was shared by 66 percent of people who customarily voted for left-wingers.
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In a combative speech, which contrasted sharply with the defeated tone of the Socialist Party, Melenchon reached out to disappointed left-wingers.
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Its board members included Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, right wingers and left wingers, all of whom supported neutral civil liberties.
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I have taken a lot of grief from my fellow Democrats over the years for calling out left-wingers, such as Sen.
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The idea of loyalty to this country, the Constitution and the president has been lost on so many left-wingers in America.
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Apparently these spoiled, detached, angry left-wingers will help the Dems increase voter registration and also help shape the message for the party.
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And this just proves that left wingers can make any vulgar comments with impunity but those same rights are not extended to Conservatives.
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Even so, some senior left-wingers expressed optimism that an eventual defeat for Juppe would open a space for them in the center.
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All right, Greg, I know we&aposve talked about this, where were all these left-wingers during the cold war when we needed them?
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Cathy, OK, when I look at this, I see a bunch of left wingers who want to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement.
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He was criticized online by conservatives, as well as left-wingers who worried he'd endangered a queer person (videos of the incident were circulated).
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Yes, there were American left-wingers who preferred the Soviet Union to the GOP, but vanishingly few would have ever felt comfortable saying so.
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There also is a vocal minority of left-wingers with an unyielding, take-no-prisoners attitude and who command mainstream and social media attention.
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Left-wingers criticised the president for supporting free markets, including labour reforms which have triggered a weekly round of paralysing rail strikes in France.
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The surprise is that in a country renowned for its footballing left-wingers, the only ones now taking a political stance are on the right.
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It is in this second role that the court has angered the elected politicians, mostly those from the right but occasionally left-wingers as well.
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His soulmates include the education minister, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, who wants to fight the supposed influence in schools of left-wingers and gay-rights advocates.
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Archbishop Óscar Romero, shot dead while serving mass, is a hero among left-wingers; his assassin was a member of a right-wing death squad.
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Right-wing Brexiteers who saw the EU as a socialist superstate joined forces with left-wingers who saw it as a tool of global capitalism.
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" A few blocks away, there was an even larger march of left-wingers upset about the right-wingers, carrying a banner that read "Smash fascism.
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The two left-wingers are each polling at around 15% of the vote—a strikingly poor result for Mr Sanders's superior resources and name recognition.
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But the grassroots energy inside the party — from moderates to left-wingers — is all about taking the fight to Trump to the point of impeachment.
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Their business-friendly reforms, Mr Renzi's autocratic ways and the objections to both from more traditional left-wingers have stretched the party's unity to breaking point.
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Left winger Jaden Schwartz scored the Blues' first power-play goal in six games before left wingers Scottie Upshall and David Perron capped off the outburst.
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It has gone off the deep end, and many moderate Democrats must cry in their sleep that their party has been taken over by left-wingers.
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The "civil war" being waged by hard-core left wingers in the Democratic Party seriously threatens to reduce their much ballyhooed "Blue Wave" to a ripple.
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While Finland's prime minister and climate minister are both left-wingers, Haavisto told POLITICO in an interview that it's Finnish industry begging politicians to go green.
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The Oilers got a pair of goals from centers Leon Draisaitl and center Mark Letestu and one apiece from left wingers Patrick Maroon and Benoit Pouliot.
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On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, The Young Turks CEO Cenk Uygur talks about running an online media company for young left-wingers.
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Despite a few vows from some strident left-wingers, the new Democratic majority in the lower chamber has shown little appetite for trying to remove the president.
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It may come as a surprise to contemporary left-wingers that it was once quite common for the champions of laissez faire to make exactly David's argument.
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This comes one day after Radical Left wingers published a fake hit piece about me, falsely accusing me of getting donations from an "anti-Muslim hate group".
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Besides, right-wingers have learned to play the grievance game just as well as left-wingers, leading to an endless cycle of claim and self-righteous counter-claim.
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Seven players — six forwards, including newcomer left wingers Jimmy Vesey and Michael Grabner — scored as the Rangers overwhelmed the San Jose Sharks 7-4 at Madison Square Garden.
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By signaling a lurch to the left, a Hamon win in the Socialist primary will boost Macron's prospects of drawing votes from moderate left-wingers after Valls exits.
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Some view UK Labour&aposs loss as a blow to the left-wingers in the US, though it is a matter of debate how precisely the two overlap.
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Criticized in the past by party left-wingers as too moderate, Gillibrand repeatedly emphasized her support for a "Medicare for all" proposal to create a national health care system.
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Jones claimed that Gilmore and left-wingers "staged" the attack as part of a conspiracy funded by George Soros, a Jewish billionaire who is a favorite scapegoat of conspiracists.
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Left wingers who were screaming about Trump&aposs rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants cause mayhem during his Inauguration and fire bombed a limo owned by a Muslim immigrant. Idiots.
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According to Friday's Odoxa poll, the preference for Macron over Fillon was clear-cut among left-wingers as well as supporters of the anti-immigrant, anti-EU National Front.
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But former "Daily Show" television host Jon Stewart this week called out left-wingers as hypocrites for portraying Trump voters as racists even as they purport to reject stereotypes.
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In the past decade, left-wingers have been responsible for a mere 19453 percent of murders committed by political extremists, while right-wingers have been responsible for 74 percent.
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Founded by Palestinians in 2005, the movement has spread internationally and is now embraced by a heterogeneous alliance of Muslims, Christians, anti-Zionist Jews, right-wingers and left-wingers.
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If he is incurious about the economy's weaknesses, the left-wingers seem unable to account for its current strength—illustrated by rows of gleaming trucks outside Mr Biden's events.
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Indeed, some Irish left-wingers sniffed hypocrisy from a politician who in his time has spurned such causes as gay adoption and once suggested paying unemployed immigrants to return home.
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President Trump on Tuesday selected 85033th Circuit Court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Antonin Scalia's vacant seat on the Supreme Court, sparking fits of rage from left-wingers.
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No matter how much left-wingers pillory Pelosi's willingness to compromise with Republicans, and her ties to big donors, she is still a better fit than Hoyer for their agenda.
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Right-wing reformers are rising where left-wingers ruled, progressives are rising where conservatives held power, and unconventional populists are gaining in countries where the traditional parties are especially weak.
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Left wingers have already made it a goal to flip the Texas state house blue, and are raking in millions of dollars in campaign donations from liberals outside the state.
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At the same time, the GOP in the state's largest city was dealt a death blow: It forfeited a council seat reserved for non-Democrats to third-party left-wingers.
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Kaufman recalled that one of the left-wingers in 1983 wanted to get a policy on puppy-farming into the manifesto, but this was too much detail even for Tony Benn.
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Though left-wingers may deride national identities, and right-wingers twist them to racist ends, they are the best hope for unifying people and giving them a broad sense of purpose.
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The city's Labour councillors, who dominate local politics, range from Muslims with sympathy for the parents protesting against the gay-friendly classes, to secular left-wingers who strongly support the school.
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This month, Macron made good on a pledge to scale back the wealth tax, long a tool for social justice for left-wingers but blamed by others for driving millionaires abroad.
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The volte-face split the party: left-wingers accused Mr Faymann of kissing up to the Freedom Party, while centrists said the party should start to cooperate with the far right.
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It asks left-wingers to recognize that shouting down right-wing speakers or getting Google engineers fired for "wrongthink" involves the same tactics that they deplore when they're used against progressives.
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It seems that both right-wingers and left-wingers have started doing better over the course of time: It's possible, then, that voters may not punish extremists like they used to.
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They would roughly equal his $3.2 trillion in spending proposals over a decade, an order of magnitude less than what the left-wingers need to finance their Medicare-for-all plans.
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Mr Bloomberg has pitched himself as a counter-weight to left-wingers such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who he says are "not well-positioned" to defeat President Donald Trump.
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Captain Jamie Benn set the tone by roughing it up with Flyers captain Claude Giroux on the opening shift, which ended with both left wingers in the box with roughing minors.
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Larsson is a decent young player, but nowhere near a proven No. 1, and the Oilers had just given up one of the best left wingers in the world for him.
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It is almost exactly a year since the stabbing which led to thousands of right-wingers, including neo-Nazis and soccer hooligans, marching through Chemnitz and clashing with left- wingers and police.
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ONCE a stronghold of the conservative Popular Party (PP), led by the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, Valencia fell to a broad coalition of anti-austerity left-wingers in regional elections in May.
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The reform was only passed after Hollande's government invoked rarely used constitutional powers to bypass parliament in the face of street protests and a rebellion by left-wingers in his own Socialist party.
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One plausible, though possibly too ingenious, theory for his attack on Ms Pressley and the rest, all of whom are left-wingers, is that he wanted to boost their prestige within the party.
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So after the family separation controversy at the border, and all the recent street action by Maxine Waters left wingers, Trump&aposs approval rating is up with Hispanics, it&aposs up 10 points.
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Then it was time for a brief stand-off between left-wingers and right-wingers, who barked at each other until anti-riot police units lost their patience and separated the two groups.
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Hall described Thatcherism as a project to "reshape common sense", and argued in the late 1970s that left-wingers had to develop a similarly panoptic programme if they were ever to win power.
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The best hope of one despairing opposition grandee is that Fidesz fails to win an overall majority, allowing liberals and left-wingers to form a minority government with the tacit support of Jobbik.
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I don't think we have to be accountable for them as much as any violent left-wingers … and you guys shouldn't be responsible for them any more than we're responsible for our readers.
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As was obvious last year, it is hard-core left-wingers such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who speak for Democratic activists, not more mainstream figures like last year's loser, Hillary Clinton.
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But at the very least, I think these are some of the complications that the left-wingers and liberals arguing about their party's approach to the Trumpenproletariat need to consider and think through.
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Mr. Corbyn's critics accuse him of poor leadership, pedestrian performances in Parliament, a failure to reach out beyond committed left-wingers, and being more concerned with controlling the Labour Party than winning power.
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Everywhere the Venezuelan catastrophe is a propaganda tool against left-wingers who have failed to keep their distance from Mr Maduro or to smash the icon of Hugo Chávez, his mentor and predecessor.
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They are flattered by the approval-seeking of Republican men, and annoyed by the upstart left-wingers who insist that they live up to liberal ideals these same elites find inconvenient or unprofitable.
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If Macron rather than Fillon or the left-wingers makes the second round, Le Pen's already-difficult path gets even harder — at least based on what we see in the polling data now.
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Pipe bombs are being sent to the leaders of a political party, and the guy who made 'Dilbert' is saying, You know the bombs were really made by left-wingers because they didn't work.
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G Martin Jones, who made 22 saves, allowed a pair of somewhat soft second-period goals to left wingers Rick Nash and Chris Kreider as the Rangers grabbed a 3-1 lead through 40 minutes.
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When George W. Bush was president, the preposterous belief that the attacks of September 11th 2001 were an "inside job" spread far and wide among left-wingers, and became conventional wisdom in the Arab world.
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In the same way, YouTube sends left-wingers into a bubble of left-wing videos, fundamentalist Christians into a fundamentalist Christian bubble, and people who love to knit into a vast universe of fellow knitters.
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When the Infowars host "Prison" Paul Joseph Watson plugged Brain Force Plus—he said he takes two pills for a "sustainable burst of energy" before shooting his videos—left-wingers accepted the invitation to ridicule.
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GERMANY'S BATTERED coalition is on shakier ground than ever after members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), elected two relatively unknown left-wingers as their leaders.
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Since he was elected party leader in 2013, Mr Renzi has faced dogged opposition from inside the PD. His adversaries include left-wingers who dislike his business-friendly policies and members of the party's old guard.
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A poor SPD result in Hesse would increase pressure on the party leadership to quit the federal coalition with Mrs Merkel: left-wingers believe the party is losing its identity because of compromises with the conservatives.
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Sharks goaltender Martin Jones, who made 260 saves, allowed a pair of somewhat soft second-period goals to left wingers Rick Nash and Chris Kreider as the Rangers grabbed a 2400-1 lead through 40 minutes.
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In March last year, eight members of a German far-right terror cell were jailed for a bombing campaign against refugees and left-wingers in the town of Freital, about a 25-minute drive from Dresden.
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Throughout Europe, the far-right continues to target Jews, and increasingly "immigrants, left-wingers, and homeless people," as well as Muslims and queer people, according to a 2019 report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism.
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In Clinton's case, a large contingent of left-wingers might not want to be members of a party that is trying to win over former Reaganites; the behavior from many Sanders's supporters this week suggests as much.
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It triggered a #FireColbert trending Twitter hashtag, with Trump supporters calling for a boycott of CBS Corp advertisers, some people accusing Colbert of being homophobic, others accusing left-wingers of hypocrisy, and still more defending the comedian.
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When today's younger, socialist-leaning activists disparage older, more Establishment-oriented left-wingers as liberals, they are echoing their New Left forebears of the 1960s and 1970s, who used the term to denounce those deemed insufficiently radical.
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The myth of the "stab in the back" — that traitors at home, whether left-wingers, liberals or Jews had prevented German forces from fighting on to victory — helped undermine the German republic and fostered dreams of vengeance.
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His book "The Big Lie" distorts the work of many scholars, including me, on Italian fascism to claim that Mussolini and Hitler were actually left-wingers -- all to try and cleanse the right of any responsibility for violence.
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They call it "Syrizification", after the Greek left-wingers who protested but then meekly accepted Brussels' demands during bail-out negotiations with the EU. Mr McDonnell is likely to keep throwing this wing of the party red meat.
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" In the 2015 election, Mr. Netanyahu was widely believed to have ensured a last-minute victory by scaring Jewish voters with a video demonizing Arab voters, saying left-wingers were busing them to the voting booths "in droves.
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After upsetting many left-wingers in his party with tough homeland security measures after the Paris attacks, Hollande has since sought to appease them by floating vague ideas of more job training and public funding of infrastructure projects.
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It triggered a #FireColbert trending Twitter hashtag, with Trump supporters on Wednesday calling for a boycott of CBS Corp advertisers, some people accusing Colbert of being homophobic, others accusing left-wingers of hypocrisy, and still more defending the comedian.
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It also gave Netanyahu, who denies any criminal wrongdoing, a fresh chance to paint his strongest opponents to the right and center as left-wingers who offer no real alternative to any of his supporters who may be wavering.
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The Supreme Court has been described by its critics as the "Rehavia Junta", for the name of the neighbourhood in Jerusalem where many of them once resided; elitist and liberal-minded secular left-wingers, aloof and detached from wider Israeli society.
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" The Daily Caller described the attack as "just the latest in an escalating pattern of violence and intimidation against Republicans," complaining that politicians on the right were victims of "an increasingly hostile political climate where left-wingers portrayed them as 'fascists.
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This is one in case in which conventional wisdom appears to win out: liberals are more likely to list themselves as single on Facebook, with 50 percent of male left-wingers and 41 percent of female liberals identifying themselves as such.
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President in 2007-2012 before losing a first re-election bid to Socialist President Francois Hollande, Sarkozy mocks the soft-spoken Juppe's plan to target centrists and left-wingers disappointed with Hollande, and to build a "happy identity" for France.
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Conservative members of the increasingly fractured Christian Democrats have said they want to use the opportunity to make provisions more employer-friendly, while left-wingers have pledged to try to reinstall more worker-friendly provisions that were scrapped in Senate negotiations.
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It was a march, and while there was at least one scuffle between left-wingers and Proud Boys at one point, the situation where Ngo was filming with his GoPro did not appear violent prior to the attack on him.
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Lacking a clear sense of purpose, he's scrambling to find a way to stand out from the pack by creating new wars, which members of the Democratic Party—moderates and left-wingers alike—are not trying to wage in this political moment.
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Jörg Meuthen, one of the leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, recently insisted that the country must change its "filthy" and "morally rotten" course, forged by the generation of left-wingers who came of age in that year of upheavals.
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Renzi, who was only 39 when he became prime minister and has repeatedly chaffed against PD left-wingers, declined to confirm reports of his imminent departure, saying only that he would talk about his plans at a gathering of supporters next month.
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With the left-wingers locked in a seemingly suicidal combat, Macron relished announcements by several right- and left-wing politicians, including Socialist defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Socialist ex-prime minister Manuel Valls, that they would vote for him instead of Hamon.
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Fearful of a rebellion by left-wingers in his own party, his prime minister, Manuel Valls, decided to ram the measures through the National Assembly using executive powers that allow a law to be approved by a motion of confidence, rather than voted on directly.
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In his autobiography Raven wegen Deutschland [sic] (Raving because of Germany) Egotronic frontman Torsen sums up the process of writing it as follows: In 2006, there was an increase in the number of Nazi attacks on left-wingers and "foreign"-looking people [in Germany].
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"Labour is now a left-wing party, with a left-wing membership, with support from the trade unions and an institutional structure that is shifting to the left," he said, predicting that left-wingers would probably control Labour for the next decade and a half.
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Should their party control both chambers of Congress and the presidency, there will be pressure for them to push for a version of Medicare for all along with some form of climate change legislation, perhaps the "green new deal" popular among left-wingers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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His politics make him unappealing to right-wing voters and left-wingers who dislike centrists, so his constituency would presumably be limited to moderate Democrats who aren't taken with people like Biden or Beto O'Rourke, both of whom have venti amounts of charisma compared to Schultz.
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And ours is a nation in which people continue to want to be defined as Americans, not as right or left-wingers, Republicans or Democrats — and that many of the differences among our citizens that make headlines can be overcome by getting to know each other better.
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Muir's experiences in the metal and punk scenes worldwide have put him in rooms with right-wingers and left-wingers alike—experiences that have taught him firsthand how difficult dialogue and compromise can be when you're talking to someone on the other end of the spectrum.
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Even left-wingers who dislike NAFTA tend to do so because they say it hurts workers, not because it benefits Mexico more than the US.) But if fact-checking Trump's rants seems necessary (he is the president, after all), it also tends to be tedious and besides the point.
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For years now, progressives have been debating how to articulate an American foreign policy that rejects what they see as the militarism of liberal internationalists, who make up the Democratic Party establishment, and left-wingers who reject any use of American power in the world as inherently tainted.
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While this has given rise to an arcane debate on the left about whether "electability" is even a thing (left-wingers, who win few elections, say it is not), Democratic voters might consider that one of their primary candidates already has a history of pegging back Mr Trump's electoral gains.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Two left-wingers in France's presidential race refused to call a truce on Thursday in a battle that looks sure to knock them both out of a contest that polls say will be won by centrist Emmanuel Macron in a runoff versus far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
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And the endpoint of both the Times and Washingtonian profiles, in which personal contact with real-life alt-righters and counterarguments from online left-wingers suffice to pull the main characters away from the far right, suggests that the current Very Online alternative to liberalism is not necessarily built to last.
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Ms. Le Pen's team hopes that Mr. Macron's economic liberalism will encourage traditional left-wingers either to abstain or back her own protectionist message, which is wrapped in the theme of national preference, the idea of putting native French workers first and introducing additional taxes on contracts for foreign employees.
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Mr Valls, who secured less than 6% of the vote when he ran in the Socialist primary in 2011, faces sundry far-left rivals at the primary (including Arnaud Montebourg, author of a book on "deglobalisation"), as well as Communist-backed left-wingers outside the party (among them a strong candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon).
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To the irritation of the Socialist Party's left wingers, for whom his former career as an investment banker is an unpardonable sin, Mr Macron has built his popularity on a reputation for disruptive politics, criticising the 35-hour working week, passing a law to allow more late-night and Sunday trading, and welcoming Uber.
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His was the best ever rookie season by a Russian and by a left winger (Russians are pretty good at hockey, and the league has boasted some pretty phenomenal left wingers), and he's the only player in league history to be named a first-team all-star in each of his first five seasons.
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But per the Independent, tweets featuring the group's members wearing diapers in some sort of incredibly ill-advised effort to own left-wingers have had more of an impact on the group's functioning than anyone might have guessed, threatening TP USA's ability to coordinate protests and other actions at the more than 1,000 campuses it claims to have a presence at.
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On the other hand, there are left-wingers who regard Trump's support among erstwhile Democrats as a sign that liberalism has badly failed some of its natural constituents, and who fear that a Democratic coalition that easily crushes Trump without much white working-class support will simply write off their struggles as no more than the backward and bigoted deserve.
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When I asked Kevin Smith, one of the authors of Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, if there was a plausible explanation for why right-wingers say they are more satisfied with their sex lives than left-wingers, he said it's possible that it could be a function of their conservatism, though he said he hasn't done any formal research into the topic.
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That is to say, the left-wingers have it correct when they point to the systems of oppression that pervade society: the legacy of residential segregation; the racist attitudes in the workplace that demonstrably make it much harder for African-American men to get jobs; the prejudices — in the schools, in the streets and in the judicial system — that make it much more likely that African-American males will be punished, incarcerated and marginalized.
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In Serbia, Thursday, March 24 couldn't have been more packed with news events: former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić was sentenced to 40 years in prison for war crimes, it was the anniversary of the start of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign on Serbia—launched against Belgrade's repression of Kosovo, anti-NATO rally,—and a group of left-wingers faced off a bigger group of far-right protesters rallying against NATO and the EU. Karadžić is the highest-ranking official to be sentenced for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, in which 100,000 people were killed and more than 2.2 million fled their homes.
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On the one hand, diehard left-wingers viewed Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE as the nation's savior; on the other hand, devoted right-wingers found a peace with Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's past, largely because of their fear of Clinton.
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Contrary to what Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Tillis says impeachment is 'a waste of resources' MORE, Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE, and progressive left wingers would have you believe, the United States still does have an objective rule of law, and the Constitution is not merely a guideline subject to interpretation and application at the whim of power grabs.
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