It’s summertime, so I’m offering two great beach reads: Spencer Pratt’s The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain and Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Stay with me. Both books have been on my mind — no, seriously — as red America tries to parse election returns from … Read more
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman has knocked former reality TV star Spencer Pratt out of the running, securing second place in the Los Angeles mayoral primary race. The Associated Press called the race on Monday, announcing that Raman will advance to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, where the two former political … Read more
Fox News viewers and right-wing social media addicts are positively shocked that Spencer Pratt — the MAGA aligned former reality TV star attempting — is on his way to being eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary, despite the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate. Pratt currently trails incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and LA City Council member … Read more
On a sunny Friday afternoon in a park overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles, about 30 people—including three in costume as Uncle Sam, Darth Vader, and Elsa from Frozen—gathered to hear the first official stump speech of Dan Greaney, candidate for the 2028 US presidential election. “My fellow Americans,” Greaney began, standing at … Read more