Outside the Beltway

For those wondering what a textbook coup would look like.

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

Too little, too late.

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 popular former governor wants another crack at it.

The phone tour continues.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

Not of governance.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

Because a certain kind of election nerd likes graphs.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

This time in the PA Supreme Court

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

That’s unpossible!

Team Trump and the WI recount.

They were rejected bigly.

Why isn’t Joe Biden President already?

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

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

At high noon.

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

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.

Trumps words, Michigan GOP Canvassers’ actions.

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

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

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Competing priorities.

It is one failure after another.

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

More sowing of doubt about electoral integrity without evidence.

Guess what they found?

The President’s claims have no merit.

The President’s message is getting through.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

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

How the EC affects our thinking.

Looking back on the last three decades of presidential elections. (Part 1: the popular vote).

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.