Outside the Beltway

Preaching to the choir only works if the choir is in the audience.

Believe it when people tell you who they are.

Of course you realize this means war.

The linguistic stylings and white supremacy of Tommy Tuberville.

While critics warn of fascism, the public is thus far backing Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Habemus habeas corpus?

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

What’s that meme about cruelty being the point?

The abuse of power is obvious.

Trying to upend 150 years of legal understanding with the stroke of a sharpie.

About half the country wants about half of Trump.

Pornhub has banned itself in nineteen states to the delight of legislators.

Oh my.

Spoiler: tariff threats and other “one weird trick” approaches won’t work.

Just lie about it.

On “negotiation tactics,” legal pathways, and such.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Our immigration policy is out of sync with our economy.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

Well, that was something.

A literal Mexican stand-off.

Billions for a wall plus a likely showdown with the feds.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

The Republican frontrunner continues to use Hitler’s language, praise dictators, and lionize traitors.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

They’re not sending their best people.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

The governor of Texas vows to finish what Trump started.

The long demographic trend continues.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

More evidence that walls don’t work as well as claimed.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.