Believe it or not, there is another GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday night. This one is at the University of Alabama. Are people still watching these things? (I mean people other than political junkies like me?) The field is...
The January/February issue of The Atlantic includes a forum titled “If Trump Wins.” It includes pieces by David Frum, Anne Applebaum, McKay Coppins, Caitlin Dickerson, Barton Gellman, Sophie Gilbert, Zoe Schlanger, and George Packer. Here is a taste of editor...
I am finishing-up Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism in preparation for a conversation I will be taping with him tomorrow on CSPAN’s Book TV. I am sure I...
Here is a taste of Kagan‘s piece today at The Washington Post: Letâs stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day....
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem, my former theology professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (I took one course with him), made waves when he endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. We spent some time at this blog reflecting on those...
Americans for Prosperity Action, a libertarian conservative super PAC affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch, is endorsing Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary race. Here is a taste of the press release: At a...
ABC News is reporting that Mike Pence was thinking about skipping the January 6, 2021 certification of the 2020 presidential election until his son, a Marine, convinced him otherwise during a Christmas 2020 family vacation in Colorado. All of this...
Here is Georgetown University public policy professor Donald P. Moynihan at The New York Times: Donald Trump, the former president and current candidate, puts it in apocalyptic terms: âEither the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state.â This...
Pastor Patrick Wiedemeier of Anchor Point Baptist Church in Webster City, Iowa prayed at Saturday night’s Trump rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa. You can watch his prayer at the 1:40.51 mark of this YouTube video. Pastor Wiedemeier starts by reading...
Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire with a little more than two months to go before the January 23, 2024 primary. Can she win the GOP nomination? It’s a long shot. But according to journalist Ron Brownstein she has...
An Emerson College poll has the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador running a clear second to Trump in the Granite State’s GOP primary race. She jumped from 4% in September to 18% in November. Donald Trump: 49% (He...
ver¡min /ËvÉrmÉn/ noun wild animals that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or that carry disease, e.g., rodents. Watch: What are people saying? Rep. Jamie Raskin: Joe Scarborough and Jon Meacham: Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich:...
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Here is Ron Brownstein at The Atlantic: Democrats yesterday continued to perform better at the polls than in the polls. Even as many Democrats have been driven to a near panic by a succession of recent polls showing President Joe Bidenâs extreme vulnerability, the...
Nihilism: “the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.” Here is a taste of Peter Wehner’s recent piece at The New York Times titled “Republicans Have Chosen Nihilism”: Mr. [Allan] Bloom believed a truly...
Here is Shane Goldmacher at The New York Times: President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep...
In the 1992 presidential race Ross Perot, who ran as an independent, got 18.9% of the vote. Perot’s candidacy cost George H.W. Bush a second term as president and got Bill Clinton elected. Today’s national Quinnipiac poll (this polling service...
Last week we saw how the MAGA evangelical wing responded to a Russell Moore tweet thanking Joe Biden for his support of Israel. Today it is New York Times columnist, evangelical conservative, and dogged anti-Trumper David French‘s turn to take...
It’s official. With the election of Mike Johnson to Speaker of the House the Trump wing of the Republican Party–and especially its Christian Right faction–is now running the House of Representatives. As I wrote yesterday: Johnson was elected to the...
We covered a lot of the responses at today’s evangelical roundup. Here’s more: David Barton and his Wallbuilders gang are over the moon. Johnson has a long history with Wallbuilders. Tim Barton says that Wallbuilders have been praying for a...
