Here is what we have written about Trump’s vice presidential pick: “What does J.D. Vance want? (April 24, 2023) “Ohio Senate candidate Tim Ryan: “I have the privilege to concede this election to J.D. Vance” (November 9, 2023) “The power […]
2024 Election
“The divide within the Republican Party…is between people who know how to work within the existing system, and outsiders who want to overturn it.”
Alternative title: What is going on in Indiana gubernatorial politics? Here is Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: The Indiana governor’s race should not, under normal circumstances, be remotely competitive. In 2020, Donald Trump won the state by 16 […]
Heer: “Unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Donald Trump will never be a traitor to his class. He is, in truth, an accurate embodiment of it.”
According to the BBC, American billionaires are “rallying behind Trump” in the wake of his felony conviction. Jeet Heer of The Nation has some thoughts on that. A taste: Trump’s wealthy supporters are not going to be convinced by the […]
Ralph Reed explains why the Faith and Freedom Coalition supports Donald Trump
Reed recently talked with Michael Scherer, a political reporter at The Washington Post, about why his organization is endorsing Trump. Here is a taste: MR. SCHERER: I want to start with the news last week. We had the felony conviction […]
Does this look like 25K to you?
Here is some context for this aerial photo of Trump’s rally in the Bronx this week. The linked piece suggests that we shouldn’t assume everyone in this picture is a Trump supporter. Here is Trump court journalist David Brody on […]
What Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed said about presidential character in 1998
I ran across this Associated Press article about a Christian Coalition event in 1998. I was struck by a few lines: Reed continues to support Trump. So much for “character” and “moral leadership.”
What if Biden and Trump tied?
Joshua Zeitz asks us to remember the Election of 1824: In the case of a tie, which hasn’t happened in exactly 200 years, the House decides the election, per the 12th Amendment, with each state delegation allotted one vote. Republicans […]
The “red tie entourage” comes to New York City to show their loyalty to Trump
They came to support Trump. They came to show the former president that they are vice-presidential material. They came to show that they could dress like the Donald. They took time out of their day–some of them were elected members […]
Trump can say whatever he wants about his “crowds,” but don’t come to New Jersey and make false claims about Springsteen!
Here is the Asbury Park Press: There he goes again. Former President Donald Trump once again compared crowd sizes with Jersey native Bruce Springsteen at his May 11 campaign rally in Wildwood. “I love these Saturday evenings. Is there anything […]
Trump proves he is “pro-God” by hawking the Lee Greenwood (“a very special guy”) “God Bless the USA” Bible
Watch: A few quick thoughts: On the Lee Greenwood Bible, check out Jay Green’s piece, “Lee Greenwood Christianity.” Is Trump doing this to raise money to help pay his bond in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case? If so, he is […]
North Carolina Republicans pick Mark Robinson as their gubernatorial candidate
In November 2024, voters in the North Carolina governor’s race will have the opportunity to vote for a man who: His name is Mark Robinson and he currently holds the position of Lieutenant Governor. Tonight he won the The Tar […]
Damon Linker urges Democrats to pick a new presidential candidate
Writer Damon Linker, a former conservative (he was once editor of First Things), is the latest to claim that Biden’s decision to run again is a selfish act. He makes the case today at The Atlantic: The Democratic Party is […]
February 8, 2024 revealed a democracy about to fall off a cliff and the American people didn’t bother to “get off the couch.”
Here is Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Inquirer: Some night around the year 2064, when the ragtag children of the last historians huddle around a cave fire and mix up some berries and the blood of their groundhog dinner to […]
Is Joe Biden’s decision to run again an act of selfishness?
Biden is running for president again at the age of 81. I voted for him in 2020 believing he would serve one-term, get the country back on track after the disastrous Trump years, and then ride off into the sunset. […]
Is Biden really behind? A response to Dan Williams
Three caveats in response to Dan Williams’s analysis earlier this week.
A quick primer on the Senate border bill
On Sunday, Senate negotiators released the text of a $118 billion bipartisan bill to reform the country’s immigration policies. The negotiators were Jim Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), and Krysten Sinema (I-Arizona). Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House of […]
David Frum on Trump’s America
Check out Judy Woodruff’s PBS Newshour interview with conservative Trump critic, Atlantic writer, and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum. Here is a taste: Woodruff: There’s an animosity, a personal nature to the differences that people feel now about […]
Nikki Haley should “go for broke” and “gently smack that gum” out of Trump’s mouth
Yesterday I suggested that Nikki Haley should, to use the words of writer Michael Wood, give Trump the “full Liz Cheney.” Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal seems to agree. Here is a taste of her column “Nikki Haley […]
What Nikki Haley gets right and what she gets wrong about slavery and race in America
My message to Nikki Haley’s staff: Please hire a historian. First there was this: Just to be clear, the Civil War was about slavery. We addressed this here. Then there was this: And then there was last night’s CNN town […]
Does Ron DeSantis really have a chance?
No. As I type I am watching DeSantis on a CNN Town Hall in New Hampshire. On Monday he said that he had a “ticket our of Iowa.” Maybe he meant a plane ticket back to Tallahassee, because there is […]