Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Republicans should make AOC House Speaker
Republicans are currently on track to end up with 214 seats in the House of Representatives in January. As of…
Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?
Democratic joy at defeating Donald Trump was partially dulled by the simultaneous diminishment of the party’s House majority. As of…
The Democrats’ civil war begins
There is, as our presumptive and somewhat presumptuous President Malaprop told us on Sunday, a time to plant and a…
The Democrats after Biden
There’s been lots of speculation, even in The Spectator, about the direction of the Republican party after Trump. But less…
Sleepy no more: Joe Biden unmasked
It was like an Elvis sighting. ‘WHERE’S HUNTER,’ Trump kept bellowing in his tweets. Well, there was the recently reclusive…
Who do Democrats want to be?
In 2004, Democratic senator Zell Miller spoke to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Focusing on the wars…
Running against AOC
‘Orange Man Bad’ is a fairly predominant ideological maxim of today’s American left. Many Republicans are invoking its right-wing counterpart…
End the lockdown. Stop the riots
These riots are not just about pent up frustration over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd under the…
The circular failing Squad
The history of socialism being one of high hopes and rude repudiations, everyone could see that Bernie Sanders was about…
What stunts should we expect to see at future State of the Unions?
The State of the Union is like that annual meeting where the boss says it was a triumphant year as…
The white supremacy phantom
Well la-dee-dah. The House votes to condemn ‘President Trump for his “racist comments” about four Democratic congresswomen of color.’ First,…
Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground
Are both Donald Trump and Joe Biden going to run to the center? Yesterday Trump delivered a fairly anodyne speech…
AOC: ignorant or anti-Semitic?
When my grandmother Masha was liberated by the British Army from the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, she was 19…
When did Congressional testimony become performance art?
Watching parts of the Watergate hearings again recently, I was struck by just how dry they are as a spectacle.…
The madness of the Democratic impeachment crusade
Since the release of the Mueller report, with each passing day comes a new and increasingly strident demand to impeach…
The backlash to Trump has begun – and Republicans should not be surprised
Washington, DC Republicans observing a rising wave of liberal and progressive candidates, policies and election results in the United States…
