Donald Trump’s appearance at the Economic Club of New York has been getting a lot of attention. The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump gave a confusing answer Thursday when asked about making child care more affordable, suggesting the […]
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Is Trump a tyrant?
It depends what you mean by tyrant. Over at Engelsberg Ideas, historian Edmund Stewart brings some necessary context. Here is a taste: Trump is clearly not a tyrant yet. Will he become one? American institutions are stronger than many of […]
Trump unhinged (again). This guy could be the next president.
Do we really want this guy back in office? Sadly, I am afraid that many Americans do. Trump still believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the 2020 election was stolen from him. If he loses in November, this […]
Trump at Arlington National Cemetery: An explainer
What actually happened when Trump recently visited Arlington National Cemetery? Ben Kesling explains at Politico: The debate around Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery has been confusing to many Americans. What’s the big deal with taking photos in […]
Trump spins again on abortion. The Christian Right feels much better now.
Trump is all over the place on abortion. Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with CNN. It’s Labor Day weekend, the unofficial start of the final push for November. Let’s check-in on what American evangelicals are saying. I think […]
On “pushing MAGA back to the periphery of American life”
David French writes: “There is a difference between beating a candidate and sidelining a movement…I believe that fear may be sufficient to beat Trump, but only joy can push MAGA back to the periphery of American life.” I hope he […]
Pro-life conservative evangelicals learn that Donald Trump’s “art of the deal” also applies to abortion
Donald Trump does not support Florida’s six-week ban on abortion. Here is Politico: Donald Trump says he doesn’t support the six-week abortion ban put in place by former ally Gov. Ron DeSantis in the former president’s adopted home state. But […]
We have now entered the “go to hell” phase of the 2024 presidential race
I guess this is a logical outcome when politics becomes spiritual warfare. 🙂 I’ll let Meryl Kornfield of The Washington Post take it from here: Former president Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, doubled down Wednesday on […]
The pro-life movement continues to turn on Trump
We’ve covered this story here and here and here. Now a leader of the pro-life movement says, “It is not the job of the pro-life movement to vote for President Trump.” Her name is Lila Rose and she leads the […]
JD Vance says Trump will veto a federal abortion ban. What are pro-life evangelicals saying?
On Friday, Donald Trump said that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Conservative evangelicals responded. We covered it here. Today, JD Vance said that if Trump were president and congress sent him a national ban […]
RFK Jr.’s family responds to his endorsement of Trump
Some context here.
Almost as if on cue, the Christian Right falls in love with a pro-choice environmental activist and conspiracy theorist
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pro-choice on abortion, an environmental activist, an isolationist on foreign policy, and an indigenous rights advocate. He wants to “seal” the southern border with “high walls” and “high gates.” He also believes that Wi-Fi causes […]
What are evangelicals saying about Trump’s claim that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights?”
Earlier today, Donald Trump wrote: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Such a claim, of course, puts pro-life conservatives in a difficult spot. Will they vote for Trump despite what appear to be his pro-choice […]
A tale of two conventions
Whatever you think about Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, this Morning Joe video is revealing:
Former federal justice J. Michael Luttig endorses Kamala Harris
I remember when conservative legal scholar J. Michael Luttig was on the short list of judges considered for a Supreme Court nomination. Then Donald Trump came along and started playing fast and loose with American institutions and the United States […]
“It’s like he’s choosing to lose”
Gabriel Sherman, writing at Vanity Fair, informs us that Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are “struggling to understand why Trump seems to be sabotaging his own candidacy”: Trump has been in a self-destructive spiral since the moment Democrats replaced Joe […]
How Harris is transcending Trump
E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]
Trumpism is straight out of the 1980s
Maybe when Trump says “Make America Great Again” he has the 1980s in mind. Here is a taste of Michael Grasso’s Jacobin piece, “Donald Trump and the ’80s Aesthetic“: When Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea stood onstage at the Republican National […]
“What deporting 15 million people would look like”
Every now and then I hear or read something about Donald Trump doing well among Hispanics. As Mexican journalist LeĂłn Krauze argues, Hispanic voters who support the former president need to know exactly what he is planning. Here is a […]
Jenna Ellis will testify against Rudy Giuliani in Arizona election case
In 2020, Jenna Ellis was part of a group of Donald Trump lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. She now realizes that she hitched her cart to the wrong wagon. This, of course, is what […]