Outside the Beltway

The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

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

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Or, more accurately, the lack thereof.

For those wondering what a textbook coup would look like.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

One member of the Grand Old Party has had it.

Biden wins again.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

The phone tour continues.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

The farce will be with her. Always.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

The EIB host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient is not impressed.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

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

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

” . . . to a second Trump Administration.” Get it?

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

Look, either you believe in democracy or you don’t.