Lessons from Trump’s TikTok zigzag
One of the accepted media tales about the Republican Party is that because Donald Trump dominates it politically and stylistically,…
Haley is out. How can Trump pick up her voters?
In the end, the lesson of Nikki Haley’s run is that Donald Trump defeated every wing of the Republican Party…
Who will replace Mitch McConnell?
The announcement by Mitch McConnell that he will step down in November comes in anticipation that he would be bounced…
Trump needs some of Nikki Haley’s voters
The hard math is clear for Nikki Haley. Even as she overperformed many polls that had her struggling to top…
A subdued Donald Trump in South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina I’ve now seen three versions of Donald Trump in the state where I grew up. In 2016,…
What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?
A month after the election shock of 2016, CBS’s John Dickerson sat down with the ninety-three-year-old Henry Kissinger to get…
Congress is a very silly place
The news that China Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher won’t run for reelection in his safe Wisconsin district may have…
Democrats face a self-reinforcing 2024 nightmare
Yesterday was a year’s worth of a rising wave that came crashing down on Democratic hopes for 2024. They had…
Women watched the NFL before Taylor Swift’s WAG era
I was standing in the beer line with a group of Pittsburgh Steelers fans midway through their home game against…
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
The top ten worst modern presidential campaigns, ranked
The decline and fall of the Ron DeSantis campaign has led several people within the commentariat — which these days…
Joe Biden don’t get no respect
During Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, it became common knowledge that the best way to lobby the president…
Unpacking the GOP’s red October
The Florida Man had a plan. It was obvious from the beginning, but this being Washington, despite all the bizarre…
Joe Manchin has every reason to run for president
Joe Manchin’s decision to retire from the US Senate is not surprising. The tea leaves have been there for a…
Who is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker?
At long last, House Republicans finally selected their new speaker: Mike Johnson, the Shreveport native who resembles nothing so much…
Being denied a job for supporting Hamas isn’t ‘cancel culture’
Karol Markowicz has a piece today about cancel culture and the college students who signed on to reprehensible anti-Israel or even…
The Hateful Eight hand the House to the Democrats
In Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, a posse of violent ne’er-do-wells forced by circumstance into a house together descend, through…
Matt Gaetz catches the car
An admission of personal bias: I have little to no respect for academics or intellectuals who write about the Congress…
RFK goes rogue
A week from today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to make an announcement in Philadelphia that will almost certainly entail…
Donald Trump’s foolish abortion gamble
Abortion was the single biggest issue that led to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election. It may be the single…
Beware the DoJ’s Hunter Biden distraction
You don’t need to be a political genius to see that this Hunter Biden indictment is an obvious smokescreen for…
The new aggressive politics in an age of lawfare
Impeaching a president may not have the same power it once did in Washington. But the announcement of an official…
Joe Biden’s grapple with senility is the GOP’s 2024 message
Weep, ad men. The Republican Party shouldn’t have to rely on any of you in 2024. They don’t need your…
Austin hosts the impeachment trial of the century
“Everything’s bigger in Texas” is one of those clichés that happens to be entirely true. With the diminution of the…
Is Andy Beshear the new Mitch McConnell?
In a move that is right out of the hard political playbook of Mitch McConnell himself, the Democratic governor of…
