On Tuesday, North Carolinians dumped evangelical frat boy Madison Cawthorn. Yesterday he gave us more evidence as to why he wasn’t fit to serve in Congress. Perhaps some of you have already heard about the “Dark MAGA” Instagram post. In...
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The power of a Trump endorsement in Ohio
If you read one thing to get up to speed on the J.D. Vance’s win in the Ohio GOP primary for U.S. Senate, I recommend Alex Shephard’s short piece at The New Republic. A taste: In a seven-person race full...
On “vicious political disagreement” and civic life
Here is a taste of Quinta Jurecic‘s piece at The Atlantic: Recently, pundits and journalists have tended to frame worries over the presence of violence in American politics as a question of whether the United States is slipping into a second civil war. There are...
Watch Trump defend his presidency to presidential historians
Watch Princeton historian Julian Zelizer convene a meeting with Trump and other presidential historians to discuss his legacy. (HT to Rick Perlstein for bringing this to my attention). We covered this story here. Trump comes at the 14:00 minute mark....
Why the McCarthy anti-Trump audio won’t hurt him politically
In case you missed it, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said some negative things about his supreme commander, Donald Trump, in the immediate wake of the January 6, 2022 insurrection. To quote the New Republic e-mail blast I received yesterday,...
The Big Lie and tribalism
Over at The Atlantic, Sarah Longwell writes: “For many of Trump’s voters, the belief that the election was stolen is not a fully formed thought. It’s more of an attitude, or a tribal pose.” Here is a taste of her...
Trump endorses Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race
Donald Trump just endorsed Mehmet Oz’s candidacy for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat currently held by Pat Toomey. Here is Trip Gabriel at The New York Times: Wading into a tight Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, former President Donald J....
The GOP as Trump Steaks
Tim Miller writes for the conservative online magazine The Bulwark. He was the communications director for the 2016 Jeb Bush campaign and spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Here is a taste of his piece “The Republican Party Is Trump...
This woman is not alone
She probably represents a small part of the population, but people like this are out there. Watch:...
Trump is worried about what historians will say about him
Here is Princeton historian Julian Zelizer at The Atlantic: As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump. But one afternoon last summer—a day after C-SPAN released a poll of historians who ranked him just...
This is not Christianity
Preacher Rick Warzywak prayed before a Donald Trump rally this past weekend in Washington, Michigan. Watch: For those, for whatever reason, cannot see the video, here is what Warzywak prayed: Father in heaven, we firmly believe that Donald Trump is...
Trump is keeping the court evangelicals close
The court evangelicals are back! Last Friday Trump called his evangelical disciples to Mar-a-Lago and they no doubt jumped on the first flight out of their home cities. The lunch was attended by Paula White-Cain (who organized the event), Jack...
Even the devil can quote scripture
Shakespeare was right in the “The Merchant of Venice.” In a Hitler-like rally in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, the site of the 2018 World Cup final, Russian president Vladimir Putin told a gathered crowd of reportedly 200,000 (according to Moscow Police)...
If Trump runs in 2024, he will do it without Pence
Here is David Drucker at the Washington Examiner: Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican...
Why all the effort to persuade evangelicals and conservatives of Trump’s corruption and unfitness may be a complete waste of time.
Bill Barr, who is promoting his tell-all book about his experience as Trump’s Attorney General, recently said he would vote for Trump again in 2024. Here is the UPI: Former Attorney General William Barr said Monday he would vote for...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr says Trump was responsible for the January 6th insurrection
Watch Trump’s top law enforcement agent: The full interview with Lester Hold will be aired Sunday night....
George Will calls Trump “a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve”
Here is the conservative syndicated columnist: Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve. His residual power, which he...
A question for Bill Barr and John Bolton: What took you so long?
Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast writes, “Bill Barr and John Bolton are spilling the tea on just how awful Trump was as president. What took them so long? Here is a taste of column: Donald Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr,...
January 6 Committee: Trump was told multiple times by multiple sources that there was no voter fraud in 2020
But he kept saying it anyway. Here is The Washington Post: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign...
Let’s remember the “vile” things Trump did to Zelensky
As Greg Sargent notes at The Washington Post, Trump: Spread propaganda about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. Ousted the well-regarded U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Froze military assistance to Ukraine. Withheld a White House meeting from Zelensky until he agreed...