Democratic primaries 2020
The Democrats’ stillborn revolution
Like some Hobbit or Harry Potter film from 10 years ago, the Democratic debates this summer are so epic in…
What will anyone learn from the Detroit debates?
The DNC are ditching porn stars, yacht rides and Pitbull for rusty motors and the 8 Mile Road, as the…
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…
Where is the Democrat who can take on Trump?
I have plenty of shamefaced company in having rashly predicted, as pundits are warned never to do, that Donald Trump…
Marianne Williamson put a spell on me
Of all the low-profile candidates vying for national attention in the Democratic debates this week, Marianne Williamson stood out. In…
Harris’s premeditated potshot won’t come close to sinking Biden
Joe Biden ran two presidential campaigns alongside Barack Obama and served as vice president for eight years, yet his decades-old…
The Democrats are too fake for 2020
Joe Biden bled last night. Kamala Harris slashed him to ribbons over his opposition to busing and his kind words…
A pathetic exhibition of virtue-signaling in Miami
A genuine liberal education is as much an education of the emotions as it is an education of the intellect.…
Spare a thought for the single-digit 2020 Democrats
Who was the last person you felt genuinely sorry for? A newly unemployed blue-collar worker who’s been ‘innovated’ out of…
The Bernie Sanders paradox
Anton Gunn was holding court at the South Carolina Democratic Convention this weekend, eager to regale journalists with tales of…
The case for locking Joe Biden in a cupboard
Most candidates for the Democratic nomination are struggling to be noticed in a crowded field. Elizabeth Warren details policy proposals.…
The media’s shameful PR campaign for Elizabeth Warren
In recent weeks, Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the mainstream media’s favorite candidate – for now, at least. Warren’s polling…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…