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Is Trump capitulation “on the way out?”

John Fea   |  March 28, 2025

It’s probably wishful thinking, but The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and some Republican members of the Congress may be waking up. Here is Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: Wednesday found White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doing what […]

John Thune is “no longer a Trump critic, but he isn’t a loyalist either”

John Fea   |  November 13, 2024

I must admit that I breathed a small sigh of relief when I heard that GOP Senators chose John Thune to lead them. Thune defeated John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida. The latter was Trump’s pick. So […]

Ramaswamy: Vote GOP. We support gay marriage and don’t want to ban abortion.

John Fea   |  July 19, 2024

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) got into it this week on X. Ramaswamy responded this way: What will the Christian Right think about these claims? Is the GOP now the party of […]

Live blogging night 4 of the GOP convention

John Fea   |  July 18, 2024

It’s Trump’s turn tonight. Check out our coverage of night 1, night 2, and night 3. ***** U. S. Senator Steve Daines of Montana. He is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Says that this morning on his […]

FIRST THINGS magazine asks: “Is the Republican Party becoming pro-choice?”

John Fea   |  July 18, 2024

We just got done watching J.D. Vance and GOP chair Michael Whatley tell members of Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition that the GOP is still the party of the Christian Right. As we have now noted several times here, […]

Will the 2024 Republican Party platform ignore abortion?

John Fea   |  July 6, 2024

Here is Heather Digby Parton at Salon: One of the more obvious signs that the Republican Party had devolved into a cult of personality came in 2020 when the party decided to abandon writing a platform in advance of the […]

“The divide within the Republican Party…is between people who know how to work within the existing system, and outsiders who want to overturn it.”

John Fea   |  June 18, 2024

Alternative title: What is going on in Indiana gubernatorial politics? Here is Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: The Indiana governor’s race should not, under normal circumstances, be remotely competitive. In 2020, Donald Trump won the state by 16 […]

Anti-abortion advocates want to keep a federal ban on abortion in the GOP platform despite Trump’s views

John Fea   |  June 13, 2024

Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, believes that the issue of abortion in a post-Roe v. Wade America should be decided by the states. In other words, he does not support a federal ban on abortion. But here’s […]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants the Supreme Court to “step-in” to change Trump felony conviction

John Fea   |  May 31, 2024

Watch Johnson on Fox & Friends this morning: Nice try, Mike, but the Supreme Court doesn’t just “step in.” Could this case be appealed to the Supreme Court? Yes. But first it needs to go through the New Appellate Division […]

The GOP is a Trump cult. Just ask Bob Good

John Fea   |  May 29, 2024

Lets talk about Bob Good, the congressman who represents Virginia’s 5th district: Good has a pretty impressive MAGA record. But that won’t get him very far in today’s GOP. Why? Because he would not bend the knee to Trump. Yes, […]

You can despise Trump, but you don’t need to send him vials of blood

John Fea   |  May 25, 2024

Here is the Associated Press: The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee’s takeover of the national party apparatus. […]

Why did Nikki Haley cave?

John Fea   |  May 24, 2024

As we covered earlier this week, Nikki Haley is voting for Donald Trump. Get up to speed here. Over at The Washington Post, Ramesh Ponnuru explains why Haley fell in line: Here is a taste” …If Trump were headed for […]

Nikki Haley falls in line

John Fea   |  May 22, 2024

Trump trashed her and her family, but today Nikki Haley announced that she will be voting for the former president in 2024. She did not say if she would campaign for Trump or do anything beyond casting a vote for […]

Nikki Haley is still racking-up GOP votes in presidential primaries

John Fea   |  May 15, 2024

Yes, the GOP is still holding presidential primaries. And, as Steven Shepard and Madison Fernandez write at Politico, Nikki Haley is still getting chunks of votes. Trump, of course, has already secured enough delegates to win the nomination, but the […]

Nikki Haley wins nearly 17% of the vote in the Pennsylvania GOP primary

John Fea   |  April 25, 2024

Nikki Haley is no longer running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. But that did not stop her from getting 16.5% of the vote in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. In other words, a significant portion of Pennsylvania […]

Saturday Night Live spoofs Trump’s GOP lackeys

John Fea   |  February 27, 2024

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry:

South Dakota Senator John Thune is the latest evangelical to jump on the Trump train

John Fea   |  February 25, 2024

Yet another evangelical leader has endorsed a candidate for president who instigated an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, is under indictment on 91 felony charges, and sexually assaulted and defamed a woman in a New York department store dressing room. […]

The Koch network gives up on Nikki Haley

John Fea   |  February 25, 2024

One of the major funders of Haley’s campaign is not spending any more money on it. Here is Natalie Allison at Politico: Americans For Prosperity Action, the powerful conservative group supporting Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary, will no […]

Romney: “I must admit that I find sexual assault to be a line I will not cross in the people I select to be my president”

John Fea   |  February 16, 2024

Mitt Romney still believes in the politics of character. What a dinosaur! 😉 Watch: Compare with this: For those who are not on X, here is Graham’s full text: We need to pray for our country and where it is […]

Matt Lewis: Today’s GOP would’ve rooted for Ivan Drago

John Fea   |  February 16, 2024

Here is Matt Lewis at The Daily Beast: At some point in my lifetime, the Republican Party went from saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” to effectively telling Russia’s current leader, “Mr. Putin, invade our NATO allies.” I’m left wondering how […]

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