Outside the Beltway

The ludicrous appointments keep coming.

An indefensible choice.

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

In which I agree with Trump about the problem, but NOT the solution

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

One thread that runs through most explanations for Tuesday’s result.

Putting down markers for future reference.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

Definitely not advice from the pope

How that awful man won again.

Let’s take a moment to recognize our grief, and what it means.

Like Guy Fawkes, I got burnt!

Here we go again.

The 45th President looks to be the 47th.

My turn.

A low confidence Election Day forecast.

A different take on our political realignment.

The guardrails may not hold this time.

Trump’s core policies will drive inflation

Trump is less unpopular than ever.

The consequences of the post-Roe world.

For want of an apostrophe . . .

Floating the idea that NC should just award its EVs to Trump.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

The MSG rally.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Making mountains of molehills.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

Ignorance and motivated reasoning are never a good combination

A modest disturbance in the force.

Hitler comparisons.

It turns out that the former and would-be-again President has a potty mouth.

What prevents you from affirmatively supporting Trump?

Contrary to widespread perception, white men can in fact dance.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Another tidbit from Woodward’s new book.

Trump is significantly outpeforming his 2020 results in New York and Florida. It doesn’t matter.

Well, at least it’s Friday…

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

Democrats and Republicans alike are less supportive than they were four years ago.