Outside the Beltway

Post-Covid recovery edition.

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

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

Explaining the inexplicable.

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

The inevitable is all but official.

The mess in California hides a more pressing issue.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

Here we go again.

Well, that was something.

The numbers continue to be strong.

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.

It’s easy if you try.

An unsurprising result.

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

If so, he’ll almost surely win bigly.

There is no denying that he was consequential.

Truly foreign language edition.

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

The longest serving Republican Leader is passing the torch.

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.

A truly insane proposition.

The politics of chaos.

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.

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

An unsurprising twist.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

The White House is doing damage control.

A new report puts the conversation in a different light.

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