Outside the Beltway

After one year at a job that has to be among the most frustrating in Washington, John Kelly has agreed to stay on through the 2020 election.

One day after an embarrassing performance at the Helsinki Summit, President Trump an absurd, completely unbelieve walk back of things the entire world heard him say loud and clear.

A man who had been identified as an assailant at last year’s Charlottesville rally and apparent member of a white supremacist organization has been dismissed by defense contractor Northrop Grumman.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

Dan Drezner notes some challenges on this topic, and I add some of my own thoughts.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Support for Trump’s comments are very telling.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

Donald Trump went there again, and in the process reopened a wound that was starting to heal just a little bit.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.

Another Cabinet member rebukes the President for his comments about Charlottesville.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Solace emboldens and helps to mainstream.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Another one bites the dust.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

Yes, even Nazis must have their rights to peaceful speech and assembly protected.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

After two days, President Trump finally found the words to condemn the parties responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, but his remarks were far too little, far too late.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

And some comments on Trumps’ anemic rhetoric.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

H.R. McMaster is fighting a losing battle for control of the National Security Council staff.

In addition to the race in New Jersey, the statewide races in Virginia are also being looked to as a barometer of American politics in the first year of the Trump Administration.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

The Don’t Dream It, Be It Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The I Did It My Way Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

Calling it neo-fascist is not hyperbole.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

Donald J. Trump will be the 45th President of the United States.

Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.