Outside the Beltway

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Or, more accurately, the lack thereof.

For those wondering what a textbook coup would look like.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Too little, too late.

One member of the Grand Old Party has had it.

Biden wins again.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

The phone tour continues.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

Not of governance.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

The farce will be with her. Always.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

That’s unpossible!

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

The EIB host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient is not impressed.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

More rhetorical undermining, even as the process moves forward.