19,000 since January 6, 2021. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: In the aftermath of false election fraud claims, 19,000 Pennsylvanians became former Republicans. Our analysis of voter registration data showed that a dramatic two-thirds of the voters who have switched...
The USA Today-Suffolk University poll also found that 58% of Republicans believe that Antifa was behind the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. 73% of Republicans believe that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. Learn more here....
Kevin McCarthy made a Black History Month video. It featured African American leader Frederick Douglass. Watch: Yale historian David Blight, the author of the definitive biography of Douglass, Prophet of Freedom, commented on McCarthy’s videos at the Los Angeles Times....
Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian, tells the story of Michael Sparks, an evangelical Christian who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post:...
Amanda Carpenter of The Bulwark is looking for him: Makeshift gallows were erected on the West side of the complex. Members of the mob shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they stormed the halls of Congress, hunting for the vice president, as well...
Many of my fellow Pennsylvanians are not happy with Pat Toomey. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: Republican state party chairman Lawrence Tabas has advised committee members that he will soon call a meeting to “address and consider actions related to...
Yesterday, in commenting on the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Johnson said, “This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.” Here is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former...
Some members of the Utah GOP want g to censure Mitt Romney, the 2012 presidential nominee of the Republican Party. A lot can happen in a decade. Here is a draft of the censure that is circulated online (boldface is...
Mitch McConnell is a weasel. He is also a very crafty politician. In his mind, moral conviction always takes a back seat to his quest for political power. This was on display Saturday when he voted to acquit Donald Trump...
Boycotts are as old as the republic. As historian T.H. Breen taught us in his book The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (and several other seminal articles on the 18th-century British consumer revolution), shopping, or the...
Yesterday I noted that Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills has emerged as a prominent site for Trump’s evangelical lost cause movement. Today I highlight (once again) the “think tank” associated with this movement: Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. It continues to baffle me...
Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...
Here is the stinger: Hawley’s mind is permanently closed, open only in the service of his ambition. He will say or do anything to further his prospects, whether it’s the White House or a bottle of wine from the top shelf. The...
Yesterday we did a post on Jamie Herrera Beutler, the Washington congresswoman who was prepared to testify that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told her that Trump supported the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Herrera did...
Anyone who reads this blog will not be surprised by anything Metaxas says in his interview with Emma Green of The Atlantic. You can read it here. Metaxas’s public relations people offered The Atlantic an interview and Green bit. I...
Marsha Blackburn (TN): Roy Blunt (MO): “I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of...
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post gives it to us straight: Trump’s lawyers, in their slashing, largely fictitious defense, claimed that Trump was “horrified” by the violence, hadn’t known that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger and took “immediate steps” to...
From the White House: It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous,...
Today the Senate acquitted him in his impeachment trial. The former president responded with this statement: I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. My deepest thanks...
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...
