Outside the Beltway

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Musings about US politics and culture.

What we know about those arrested for the 6 January insurrection.

The erstwhile Tea Party Republican is making a run for President.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

A thoughtful liberal argues the Justice has “altered and destroyed his legacy” by allowing Donald Trump to appoint his successor.

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

Due mostly to cowardice and naked self-interest, you shouldn’t expect many other Republicans to speak out against Trump in the near future.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

The Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality seems to have revived an idea that has been mentioned before, but as it has always been, the idea of “getting government out of marriage” is little more than a simplistic slogan.

Two potential candidates for the Republican nomination in 2016 traded barbs this week over the President’s new policy toward Cuba.

The beginnings of a populist challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.

Rand Paul’s filibuster has made him a darling among conservatives but it may not last.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

Despite how it many have seemed in January, Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential effort is ending just about the same way his 2008 effort did.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.