Outside the Beltway

Better late than never numbers are better than the vibes suggested.

Don’t tell me there’s no hope at all

More thoughts on Klein’s column.

Although I have to wonder if she is aware of the Streisand Effect?

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

Gone, gone, the damage done.

Debates about whether Trump is strong or weak often ignore the fundamental fact that he has power.

Everybody knows you never go full MAGA.

Spouting opinions is far easier work that governing based on facts.

Plus more white nationalism from the administration.

Reveling in cruelty.

Right in front of our noses.

It is hard to ignore the aesthetic he is invoking.

They hate the program but have no viable alternative.

The administration continues to show its ideological stripes.

A reminder the US government sent people to CECOT who were then tortured.

Even in font selection, it would seem.

Permanent damage appears to be coming (oh, and it enhances the authoritarian power of the presidency as well).

Cruelty in service of nativist purity.

Tough guys actions don’t solve massive problems.

Who needs evidence and due process when “bad guys” are involved.

Come for the casual racism, stay for the weird aggrandizement of Dear Leader.

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

I guess this means it’s open again.

Come for the shots fired at the cabinet, stay for the weird digression.

The President minced no words.

More on the clear white supremacist ideology oozing from the Trump administration.

Thinking about the intellectual foundations of contemporary immigration policy.

Arresting the spouses of Americans at Green Card appointments.

It beats the alternative but it ain’t for sissies.

I find it hard to take.

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for.

The State Department will be pressing our closest allies to control their borders.

The NYT has discovered that Trump is old.

Testing a hypothesis or two.

Why I am a bit reticent about being sympathetic.

Trump and his poll numbers brag.

Mamdani visits the WH; MTG resigns.

Some signs of hope and of deep concern due to Trump appointees.

You know, as is normal in democratic politics…

More polling.

Bret Stephens wants to oust Maduro in Venezuela.

Getting close to his term 1 low.

Trump’s ongoing revelation of his character.

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

Some notes on House process and how it relates to recent and ongoing political news.