Stick a Fork in O’Rourke
Beto is stoking up one the great bonfires of modern political history; he is a phenomenon of these strange times so unique that no one could have imagined him
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The Emerging Democratic Minority
The party is doing its best to squander the limited victory it won in 2018.
The Cohen Fiasco
The president’s accusers, without even a subliminal hint of embarrassment, regret, or belated moderation, are lowering their sights.
G-Men Out of Control
With a depoliticized military, the secret police & intelligence services, if not reined in, can be very powerful, in a democratic country as in a dictatorship
The Fatuous Democrats
This desultory parade of chipper, chirpy, wildly implausible, and unknown people has proved a teeming breeding ground of completely unfeasible policy advocacy.
Partners in Crime
Michael Cohen is no more contemptible or credible than hundreds of thousands of others who do essentially the same thing every year in the United States.
Trump Has Not Flamed Out
The truisms and pieties of Trump’s enemies about America's shocking state are bunk, real only when one contemplates the opposition, not the administration.
Trump Outfoxes the Democrats
The Democrats will have to deliver something believable on border security. The longstanding state of the southern border has been a scandal and an outrage.
Shutting Down the Shutdown
Trump has some unfortunate traits, but he is the president and very successful. Most of his Democratic opponents are harpies, hacks, and borderline subversives.
Trump and FDR — Both Smear Victims
Partisan hackery in our intelligence agencies is a much greater threat to democracy than any purported ‘collusion.’