Outside the Beltway

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Could it be?

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

An interesting podcast conversation.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

Part of a disturbing trend.

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

Oh, FFS.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

What’s smaller than minuscule?

Put the frustration where it belongs.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

An arrest underscores what the problem isn’t.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Discussing the filibuster.

Or, you know, not.

You know, some light weekend thoughts.

Well, nothing of course.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

A damning number.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

The saga continues.

Looking to Federalist 22.

I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

A quick lesson about American parties.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Mostly about how not to do it.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Increases in social benefits can increase freedom.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

Let’s call it what it is.