Outside the Beltway

From the Cliché File.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

It’s okay to ask a war criminal for some political dirt on your opponent, right?

Magically mobilizing nonvoters isn’t going to happen (but it sounds nice, I suppose).

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

Doing the right thing on 1/6/20 doesn’t absolve him of being a key Trump enabler.

Trump’s pardon offer is just another way to propagate the big lies about the election and 1/6.

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

Hillary Clinton edition.

The silly season has commenced a mite early.

With an obvious but important caveat.

The clock is ticking.

We’re three short years from the next election.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

As the pandemic’s effects continue to worsen in Florida, DeSantis continues to play the worst kind of politics.

Florida has a lot of cases.

His executive order blocks schools from having masking rules.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

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

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Most leaders ring up Joe.

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

The numbers behind recounts.

Guess what they found?

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?