Outside the Beltway

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

Trump tried to interfere in GA earlier than we knew.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

And here we go.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

The two races are almost identical.

Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

The sitting president is asking GA officials to find votes despite the fact that the results have been confirmed thrice.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

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

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

That President-elect Biden is shaking up his protective detail isn’t unusual. The reason, however, is.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

The zombie idea for ousting an erratic and dangerous President.

Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner are among last night’s lucky recipients.

Although, as usual, he maintains his odious approach to it all.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Meanwhile, a report states that a Trump admin official pushed infections to promote herd immunity.

A long overdue–and complicated—recognition.

He wanted a cabinet post. And this is a cabinet post.

Our long national farce is over.

Too little, too late.

One member of the Grand Old Party has had it.

Biden wins again.