It was all lies. Jenna Ellis is a former Liberty University representative, Colorado Christian University law professor, former host of a podcast titled “Just the Truth,” and a Trump election fraud lawyer who, along with Rudolph Giuliani, tried to overturn […]
Trumpism
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 […]
CPAC 2023 in six minutes
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“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Trump says evangelicals who have yet to back his 2024 candidacy are disloyal
Some of Trump’s most prominent court evangelicals have yet to back his 2024 presidential candidacy. Trump is not happy about it: More here. Is the contractual relationship over? Trump delivered for conservative evangelicals. They got the Supreme Court. Roe v. […]
Historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer on the state of the Republican Party
The Princeton University historians are the editors of Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About our Past. Here is a taste of their recent interview with Vanity Fair: I know both of you are particularly public-facing […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene: mainstream Republican
As the Republican members-elect of the 118th Congress tried to select a Speaker of the House last week, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, an election denier, former QAnon follower, and believer in Jewish space lasers, backed Kevin McCarthy on all […]
Who is Donald Trump’s white supremacist dinner guest?
His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of […]
Are evangelicals really abandoning Trump?
The press seems to love this story. Here is The Huffington Post. Here is The Washington Post. Here is Rolling Stone. But are evangelicals really abandoning Trump? It’s too early to tell. James Robison’s comments at National Association of Christian […]
Eric Metaxas: “Spokesperson for election fraud conspiracies and an evangelist for a politicized God who would support going to battle for Donald Trump”
“On the Media” podcast tackles Eric Metaxas and Salem Media. It’s well done. The first episode shows how Salem radio hosts who refused to promote Trump were fired from the network. Ben Shapiro (once an anti-Trumper), Joe Walsh, and Michael […]
Zakaria: The GOP must purge Trump
Do the results of the 2022 midterm elections represent a serious wound, if not a mortal wound, to Donald Trump and Trumpism? Not really. Take the issue of election denial. Kari Lake lost her gubernatorial bid in Arizona, but the […]
Why last night’s Mike Pence interview was so hard to watch
In case you missed it, CNN hosted a townhall conversation with former vice president Mike Pence. Jake Tapper hosted the event and Pence took questions from the audience. Pence is clearly positioning himself for a presidential run in 2024 and […]
Why Kari Lake lost the Arizona gubernatorial race
Watch Vaughn Hillyard on Morning Joe: This, of course, is also a stinging indictment of Trump’s 2024 candidacy. Even though Lake lost, I still think it is disturbing that she got over 1.2 million votes.
What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?
Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals […]
If GOP candidates lose, Eric Metaxas and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell will find fraud
Here is Metaxas talking to Steve Deace of Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze: In a strange historical rant, Deace says that Christianity survived for “1700 years” because it was “subversive” and refused to “bow to Caesar.” Perhaps this is true […]
How Trump “sabotaged” the GOP
John Podhoretz is a conservative columnist who edits Commentary magazine and writes a columnist for the New York Post. He was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Here is a taste of his recent column at the […]
Today’s New York Post on Trump
Metaxas says Biden and Pelosi are not Catholics and anyone who believes otherwise are buying into a “lie” from the “pit of hell”
Metaxas showed-up at a Trump rally in LaTrobe this weekend. The Biden and Pelosi stuff starts at the 2:38 mark: My “favorite” part of this interview is at the 3:10 mark when the Trump-loving Metaxas says that “when somebody lies […]