Outside the Beltway

The public is much less concerned than you are.

…and I write a bit more than that.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

A joke(?) gone a-rye.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

We’re an incredibly divided country but splitting it into two is impossible.

The Democrats are apparently selling their omnibus spending package the wrong way.

Some interesting stories or columns that I’ll never get around to writing full posts on.

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

David Brooks is the leader in the clubhouse.

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

Free speech is not for everyone.

The similarities are rather obvious. But the differences matter.

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

A Constitutional coup d’etat is not the way to solve the Donald Trump problem.

It is Trump’s party now. Impeachment is not coming.