Outside the Beltway

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

E-I-E-I-O

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

The former White House physican (and current Congressman)’s demotion for misconduct has been reversed.

Stephen Miller and Fox News.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

Wildly unpopular policies in hyperpolarized times.

Following the Dear Leader.

If any other president…

A list of words and who actually uses them!

And threatening states.

A strange obsession.

The cruelty is the point?

The artless deal.

Nor does Benny Johnson.

The Kennedy Center “Honors” get a Trumpian makeover.

Authoritarianism is popular.

We are observing an effort to embed democratically questionable sectarian norms into the day-to-day life of federal workplaces. 

The seemingly inevitable next step.

One of the big ones has given up.

Colbert asks Harris a question about leadership.

Trump’s personal lawyer, and man accused of telling DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders is now a federal judge.

It’s down, but relatively steady.

A simple solution to a complex problem.

Things are not operating as Madison intended.

The end of an era.

Trump asks Texas to further gerrymander the state.

Trump’s One Weird Trick to end the war in Ukraine.

Why I am not a conspiracy guy, but also wonder why he is shouting about the whole thing.

Because of course.

A dire warning from the UN.

It’s bad writing, but a necessary evil.

An unusual diplomatic approach.

Both the policy issues but also the way it illustrates the politics of us versus them.

An unserious idea from an unserious man.

They may whine and bluster, but Trump always gets their votes.

This ain’t 1976.

This phase seems to be over. [Or maybe not!]

I don’t question the timing.

Maximalist claims are almost surely overstated.

Democrats are mostly condemning it and Republicans are divided.

The war is on.

Thinking about possible outcomes.

Whatever that means.

The Commonwealth’s off-off year contests will be seen as a referendum on Trump.

Trump and Netanyahu do not see eye to eye on the matter.

But Not Really (Wink Wink)