Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and Donald Trump participated in a “prayer call” Monday night with Jackson Lahmeyer and the Pastors for Trump movement. Some of you may remember Lahmeyer as the 2022 Senate candidate who tried to unseat Jim Lankford […]
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Can Republicans beat Biden in 2024?
Rich Lowry, the editor in chief of the conservative National Review, thinks Republicans are “delusional if they think Biden will be easy to beat.” Here is a taste of his piece at Politico: At this juncture, no one else in […]
Inside Tucker’s head
I ran across this video today: And then I read David French’s recent column at The New York Times. A taste: On Tuesday evening, two news reports caught my attention. The first was an Emerson College poll of Republican primary voters in […]
More on the censure of Trump lawyer and evangelical pundit Jenna Ellis
As I wrote last night in this post, Jenna Ellis rarely tweets without claiming that she is a great defender of truth. She has built a platform on defending Donald Trump and contesting the 2020 election and now she had […]
Will evangelicals support Trump in 2024?
I was happy to help New York Times reporter Charlie Homans with this story. A taste: Mark Burns, a pastor from Easley, S.C., who served as a campaign surrogate for Mr. Trump in 2016 and has endorsed his 2024 run, […]
The GOP primaries need an anti-Trump candidate in 2024
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post calls for an anti-Trump candidate in the Republican Party. But it will not be former Maryland governor Larry Hogan. On Sunday he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times titled “I’m Not Seeking […]
McKay Coppins at CPAC: “I’ve never seen it more dead”
What happens if you hold a Conservative Political Action Conference and no one shows up? Here is McKay Coppins at The Atlantic: The right-wing-merch retailer’s setup was among the most impressive at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display […]
Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]
How dangerous is Ron DeSantis?
Not as dangerous as many progressive think he is, according to Damon Linker. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of […]
Nikki Haley’s campaign is “pointless”
Here’s Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. The video announcing Haley’s candidacy was as vapid and weightless a product as any in recent political memory. Of course, it checked all the right boxes: Family, devotion to public service, all the usual generic gloss, […]
Nikki Haley is officially running for president
It will be an uphill climb for the former South Carolina governor. She needs to explain why she flip-flopped on her views of Trump in the years between 2016 and 2021. On the other hand, her appeals to the culture […]
“No political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley.”
Stuart Stevens is a veteran of both the George W. Bush and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. Here is his take on 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, published today at The New York Times: I remember the first time I saw […]
There were three major investigations of Donald Trump’s presidency. What if we took them as a whole?
There are three published investigations of Donald Trump and his presidency: The Mueller Report, the House Intelligence Committee Report on Trump and Ukraine, and the January 6th Report. Future historians will bring these reports into conversation with one another. Carlo […]
Joe Biden’s populism
There were parts of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night that could have passed for a Donald Trump speech. Some conservatives, like Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, seem to be getting nervous. Here is a taste […]
Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders the best the GOP could do last night?
Frank Bruni of The New York Times nails it. Here is a taste of his recent column: I keep hearing and reading that many Republican leaders want to move on from Donald Trump. I can’t imagine why. His role in […]
How a Trump third-party run in 2024 would prove catastrophic for the GOP
What might happen if Donald Trump does not get the GOP nomination for president in 2024? Peter Wehner has thought about this. Here is a taste of his recent piece at The Atlantic: It’s begun to dawn on Republicans that […]
Charles Koch and his network will oppose Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries
The conservative, libertarian, free-trade organization Americans for Prosperity, led by billionaire businessman Charles Koch, does not want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024. Today Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity, released a memo on the […]
Some evangelicals will be tempted to support Trump in 2024 if it means striking a blow to the LGBTQ community
When Donald Trump was president he said very little about gay marriage and other LGBTQ issues. But when he did speak about the LGBTQ community it was usually positive. In April 2016, The New York Times published a piece by […]
Poll: Republicans want to move on from Trump
The poll was commissioned by the conservative website The Bulwark. Here is a taste of Sarah Longwell’s summary: We polled three different scenarios and each showed Trump locked between 28 and 30 percent support from Republican primary voters: There’s a […]
GOP: Let’s just hope Trump goes away
According to McKay Coppins, this is the best GOP strategy right now. Some even want him to die. Here is a taste of his piece at The Atlantic: Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA […]