2020 election
Joe Biden is a Trump Republican
If Joe Biden snatches the White House from Donald Trump in 2020, he will govern as a modern liberal. This…
Why Joe Biden can’t win
Like the poor according to Jesus of Nazareth, Joe Biden we will always have with us, or so it seems.…
The 2020 Democrats you’re likely to see at the debates
Televised debates are one of the great mysteries of electoral politics. One major gaffe can sink a candidate, they say.…
The inevitability of Joe Biden
‘Biden is their nominee until further notice,’ a source close to the White House told me recently. The candidacy of…
Why Joe won’t blow it
A common fallacy circulating among the pundit class is that every presidential election cycle will be as ‘disruptive’ as 2016…
What’s the matter with Bernie?
Who’s the biggest loser? Joe Biden’s third try for the White House might look as doomed as Hillary Clinton’s run…
When populism fails
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Donald J. Trump ran his insurgency presidential campaign against the coordinated opposition…
Are you ready for the Summer of Biden?
Ah Biden, Sleepy Joe, the gaffe machine from Scranton, Penn. He’s familiar to everyone, but an unknown quantity as a…
It doesn’t matter who Trump runs with: he’ll still win in 2020
At this point, we can relegate the admonitions and advisories to the small print reserved for the disclaimers about possible…
The 2020 primary’s pivot to video
‘Charlottesville, Virginia is home to the author of one of the great documents in human history. We know it by…
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political…
Without the Mueller probe, Trump is sunk
For so long, Democrats thought that the Mueller investigation would bring down President Donald Trump. The truth could be the…
The genesis of the #NeverBernie movement
Is a #NeverBernie faction starting to emerge among Democrats? Sanders is on a roll after his appearance at a town…
Donald Trump, fundraiser extraordinaire
While we all ponder the mysteries of the Notre-Dame fire, let me say a word or two about a golden…
The curious candidacy of William Weld
Good news for Team NeverTrump: they have their man — a declared 2020 primary challenger to Donald Trump, and it’s…
Democrats, not Republicans, will dismantle Obama’s legacy
Last week Barack Obama, grayer, wearier and older in every way, was in Berlin at one of his foundation’s conferences for ‘emerging…
The Trump 2020 campaign is much, much more formidable than 2016
Almost every day, somebody somewhere recycles the idea that President Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to be president. He never…
Being ‘Not-Trump’ is not enough
For all that progressives hate Donald Trump’s policies, his tax cuts and his travel bans, nothing has been more outrageous…
Why the Left can’t understand Tucker Carlson
There are some furrowed brows (as well as some furtive giggles) over Tucker Carlson’s recent hypothetical musings about what the…
Would the Democrats rather win in 2020, or eat themselves alive?
Do Democrats want to win the 2020 election? Do they understand why they lost in 2016? I’m increasingly unsure. It…
Why Donald Trump will win in 2020
Harold Wilson was right that ‘a week is a long time in politics.’ But, hey, watching the president in Grand…
Could the Mueller report’s findings help Democrats in 2020?
In determining that Donald Trump did not engage in secret collusion with Russia, Robert Mueller may well have done Democrats…
Andrew Yang is the Democrat Ron Paul…except he might actually win
Long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang isn’t afraid to take a position on, well, anything. Browse through his campaign website,…
How Biden loses
Presidential politics is all about excitement. So maybe it should worry the Democrats that their most exciting 2020 presidential prospects,…
Michael Avenatti: Why Beto can’t win
Beto O’Rourke is many things. But he is definitely not a fighter. And that’s why it would be a huge…
