Outside the Beltway

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

Hitler comparisons.

Beyond politics, there’s culture.

Biden is old and in diminished capacity. His opponent is old, in diminished capacity, and a horrible human being.

The Replace Biden bandwagon continues rolling. Evidence is mounting that he needs to get on it.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

A stroll through the archives.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

Wherein I finally reveal my answer (spoiler: it is hardly surprising). And, also, wherein despite the goal of brevity, I fail at that goal.

The one we’ve all been waiting for.

The past just won’t let him be.

Thoughts on the scenarios.

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

Three new polls show that Republicans basically agree with the leader of their party when it comes to the issue of Russian interference in American elections.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

Donald J. Trump continues to turn the dial higher and higher on his fascist demagoguery.

Republicans seem to be thinking that Hillary Clinton will be an easier General Election candidate than the evidence suggests she is likely to be.

Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.

Reminding government employees that they are employees of the government is suddenly controversial.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Another poll confirms that Sarah Palin continues to be viewed negatively by the majority of American voters, but that doesn’t seem to matter to supporters who seem have a degree of adulation usually reserved for celebrities than serious politicians.

Turkey reformed its constitution over the weekend, in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised “will go down in history as a turning point in Turkish democracy.” But there’s strong disagreement over which way it’s headed.