Outside the Beltway

A blast from the past.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

Part of a disturbing trend.

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

I couldn’t help myself.

Definitions are fun, right?

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

American fascism is on parade, right now.

Some recommended reading.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Not that one. The other one.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

CBS did a lousy job.

Dennis Prager makes me feel like we are living in the Upside Down.

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

Trump, Scott, and their allies are not doing America any favors.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent, albeit amateurish, assassination attempt yesterday in what could be a sign of underlying instability in Venezuela.

The Strzok hearing provides a return to this timeworn favorite.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.