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Trump 4th of July boat parades serve as a useful metaphor
Here is Tom Boggioni at Salon: Supporters of Donald Trump who have taken to the lakes and waterways to hold boat parades honoring the former president are being hammered by fellow boaters and maritime experts for literally leaving destruction in their wake after swamping […]
The Michigan Republican and evangelical music minister who searched for evidence of election fraud, but “all he found was lies”
Ed McBroom is a dairy farmer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a substitute teacher, a music minister at First Baptist Church of Norway (MI), and a GOP state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee. Here’s a little devotional from the First […]
What happened on January 6, 2021?
The New York Times has analyzed thousands of videos related to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and put together its own 40-minute video. It is calling this video “the most comprehensive picture to date of what happened–and […]
The C-SPAN presidential rankings are here!
C-SPAN asked scholars to rank the presidents in terms of public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision, the pursuit of justice, and “performance within the context of the times.” The list […]
Petri: “Ivanka and Jared working to distance themselves from consequences of their own actions”
The title of Alexandra Petri’s column says it all. Here is a taste: After working very hard for years in the Trump administration, with special portfolios that included everything from Working Women to Peace in the Middle East (a subject […]
Pence says he was “proud” to certify the election
Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman on the latest from Penceville: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday night made his most forceful attempt yet to separate himself from his former boss, Donald J. Trump, on the issue of certifying the […]
“There’s nothing like a near-death experience to serve as a wake-up call.” Unless you’re Donald Trump.
Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb are the authors of the forthcoming Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History. In an excerpt published at The Washington Post, we learn that Trump’s case of COVID-19 was […]
Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly will travel to Texas and Florida as part of a “history tour”
It looks like Bill O’Reilly will be one of the guardians of Donald Trump’s legacy. In December, Trump and O’Reilly will be at the BB&T Sunrise Center in Sunrise, Florida; the Amway Center in Orlando; the Toyota Center in Houston, […]
Evangelical Trumpers gather in Orlando
While many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, an all-star lineup of Trump court evangelicals and other assorted followers of the former president are in Orlando this weekend for the Road to Majority 2021, the annual gathering of Ralph Reed’s Faith & […]
Trump was not a “crazy dream.” We must reckon with his presidency
Dahlia Lithwick is correct. Here is a taste of her Slate piece: “The Price of No Consequences for Trump”: I don’t have any prescription for how to reason with a radicalized GOP, a post-truth electorate, or a conspiracy-addled former president, […]
Trump really believes he will be “reinstated” to office in August
Is the “MyPillow Guy” now calling the shots? Here is Charlie Cooke at The National Review: Two days ago, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported that Donald Trump “has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get […]
Pence says he and Trump “do not see eye to eye” on the January 6, 2021 insurrection
This is the first time the former vice president has suggested that he has a different view of January 6 than his old boss. But of course this claim was also couched in pro-Trump administration rhetoric. Here is Myah Ward […]
The GOP’s “lost generation”
Rational Republicans are leaving politics in droves. Here is Politico: As Donald Trump ponders another presidential bid, top Republicans have grown fearful about what they’re calling the party’s “lost generation.” In conversations with more than 20 lawmakers, ex-lawmakers, top advisers […]
Paul Ryan: “If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality…then we’re not going anywhere.”
Tonight the former Speaker of the House will give a speech at the Reagan Library in California. John McCormick of The Wall Street Journal reports: “Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads,” Mr. Ryan will say, according to […]
More than half of Republicans believe Trump is the “true” U.S. president
According to a new Reuters/IPSOS poll, 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the “true” president. 3% of Democrats and 25% of all Americans believe this. Matt Bennett and Jon Cowan may be right about January 6, 2025.
Are we in the midst of a third American revolution?
CNN legal scholar Carrie Cordero and historian Ed Larson at USA Today: We are all familiar with the first American Revolution: an actual war, a rebellion for self-governance. But it was not long after that Thomas Jefferson called the election of 1800 […]
Trump’s “National Garden of American Heroes” will not happen
Remember Donald Trump’s “National Garden of American Heroes?” Joe Biden just canceled it. Here is Zeke Miller at the Associated Press: President Joe Biden on Friday put the kibosh on his predecessor’s planned “National Garden of American Heroes” and revoked […]
Amitai Etzioni on why Donald Trump continues to have political power
Here is the communitarian intellectual Etzioni at National Interest: Millions of Americans who still support Trump see themselves as a persecuted White minority. They hear from right-wing news outlets that demographic trends dictate that the United States is on its […]
Kevin McCarthy: “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election”
The GOP House minority leader can’t be serious. Here is Paul Kane at The Washington Post: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday took a head-spinning tour through Washington. First, he oversaw the roughly 20-minute meeting of House Republicans […]