Outside the Beltway

Creeping authoritarianism? Political suicide? Descent into madness?

Its like déjà vu all over again.

A familiar question is again a reasonable one.

Congressional Republicans are reminding voters of a dark hour in the Biden presidency.

What happens if a corrupt man who owes hundreds of millions is President?

Sit-up at attention edition.

Trump is giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists.

When being despicable is normal, is it still news?

Martyr Complex Edition

Sic a mob on a guy and this is the thanks Trump gets.

An unserious plan by an unserious group.

tl;dr: Either he goes or she (and her office) go

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

The inevitable is all but official.

The mess in California hides a more pressing issue.

Here we go again.

Well, that was something.

Biden did what he needed to do.

The state of the union is apparently fiery.

California’s next Senator had his night spoiled.

A breakdown of some Republican primaries.

The last challenger to Donald Trump bows to reality.

One term was enough.

An unsurprising result.

They’re fast running out of time to find a candidate.

If so, he’ll almost surely win bigly.

Truly foreign language edition.

The Supreme Court has effectively derailed the main criminal case against the likely Republican nominee.

Reading the tea leaves in Michigan.

Some Democrats are threatening to sit November out.

Data from the early primaries

In a shocking development, the overwhelming frontrunner is winning.

The Top Two system has created perverse incentives.

A data point or two amid the panic.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

Live! From New York, it’s…wait, what?

A fundamental flaw illustrated.

He owes over half a billion so far. That creates significant conflicts of interest.

An unsurprising twist.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Yes, every special election is a very special snowflake, but trends do emerge

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it.

And thoughts on swapping out Biden.

The problem that won’t go away.

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.