Outside the Beltway

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

You know, as is normal in democratic politics…

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

It’s not an unprecedented stance.

The Trumpian Twilight Zone.

How party change actually works in the US. Plus more on messaging and organzing.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

It’s huuuuge.

Power is apparently very important.

I mean, who would even think such a thing?

The term which kicked off this week wil decide whether we effectively have a king.

Democratic leadership still keeps playing normal politics in times that are anything but.

SCOTUS continues to favor the executive over the legislature.

Twenty-Second Amendment edition.

More signs of flaws in the Trump economy.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

If any other president…

We are observing an effort to embed democratically questionable sectarian norms into the day-to-day life of federal workplaces. 

Trump is not popular.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

An odd, impactful ruling.

Mail time!

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

Where are we with my concerns about the Trump administration?

Have I ever noted the Congress is less responsive to the public than it should be?

Say what Trump wants or he’ll threaten to sue!

Team Trump and the DIA assessment of the Iran bombings.

Is that really a good idea?

For all practical purposes, the Constitutional war powers have been stood on their head.

Well, I feel better now.

No. But it won’t matter.

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize obsession.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

The challenges and harms of meeting campaign promises.

The prize: sick and dead US children

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

There’s always a tweet

Resisting gaslighting must be social. It’s crucial for those who oppose Trump’s falsehoods to remind each other, again and again, that 2 + 2 = 4.

Well, most of them.

Hint: another variables may be the key.

Keeping a running list of examples of the dishonesty, unreality, poor governance, and authoritarianism of the Trump administration.

More from the annals of unrealty.

Or does it?

He is either too dishonest or too stupid to hold the office (or, you know, both).