John Brummett

Recent stories by John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Manchin in the middle Rather than demonizing him as a Republican in poor disguise who ought to go ahead and join the Republicans--which would deliver the U.S. Senate to Mitch McConnell--Democrats ought to be thankful for J... June 24, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Some keeping hope alive It was a bit of a dream May 13. I began a column on that date by writing that what the country needed was the signing of "an imperfect infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony attended by smiling... June 23, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A sigh of relief for GOP Once again the U.S. Supreme Court, even this Trump-soiled one, saved Obamacare. In the process it spared the Republican Party. You might have been thinking that Republicans oppose the Affordable Care... June 22, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The electability of merit There is no single savior for all that ails Arkansas Democrats or our state's politics. But all Dr. Chris Jones Jr. seems to be saying is to give merit a chance. Politics has seldom been strictly a m... June 20, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Beware the scary liberals It's a 30-second ad posted only on Facebook by a new super-PAC. It looks like a cookie-cutter ad. It invokes the events of Jan. 6 and warns of Trumpists seeking offices around the country. Then it pl... June 17, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: In need of a healer Mike Huckabee always liked to say that you didn't know politics until you'd tangled in the church version. I suspect there's truth in that. The great scourges of our politics are zealotry and hypocri... June 16, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Heartening evidence I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the fine people of the great state of Arkansas. About half of them, anyway. There is evidence from statistical science that the Trump insurrection is... June 15, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: At least an inroad They can't seem to find any in Washington. Those who seek it tend to get ridiculed and demonized. They get called unprincipled sellouts to the dark side. You don't encounter much of it on social medi... June 13, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Parsing the madness Perhaps Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has no idea what she's talking about. Or maybe she is all strung-out trying to out-Trump Sarah Huckabee Sanders, an impossible challenge with Sanders seamless... June 10, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Lessons in a flower Maybe today's change of pace will connect more broadly than politics. Maybe the late-winter arctic blast in Arkansas performed a hit-and-run on your gardenia bushes too. This is the parable of the fr... June 9, 2021