Outside the Beltway

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

Trumps words, Michigan GOP Canvassers’ actions.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

More sowing of doubt about electoral integrity without evidence.

Guess what they found?

” . . . to a second Trump Administration.” Get it?

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

How the EC affects our thinking.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Look, either you believe in democracy or you don’t.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Either democracy is sacred, or it’s not.

A lot to think about, not a lot of conclusions.

We may be a little closer to ending the tyranny of the Electoral College.

A brief video that puts the US in broader context.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

Some thoughts on voter enthusiasm and EV scenarios.

More on a dangerous and disturbing incident in Texas

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Lots of places in the US don’t make it easy.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

Thinking about what we might know on the night of the election.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

The rules for counting votes matter.

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

Definitions are fun, right?

The problem is real.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

It’s time to accept the desecration of our political constitution.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.