Outside the Beltway

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

The Robespierres in the House of Representatives are driving American politics in a predictably horrible direction.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

The griftiness of it all is not surprising, but remains astounding.

Electoral Count Act reforms are “hidden” in the bipartisan budget bill.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Is this how the cult ends?

Trump NFTs: just in time for Xmas.

Go ahead and pop a few.

Losing has a way of creating intraparty strife.

With a win in Nevada, the party will retain at least 50 seats.

Adam Laxalt’s big lead is slowly erodiing.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

In the weeds of civil-military relations.

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

Republicans have died at a far higher rate than Democrats.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

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.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Her price to sign on to the Inflation Reduction Act was, well, odd.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Sometimes people just change jobs.

See is paying the price for her defense of democracy.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Grifting, all the way down.

The convicted criminal has been released pending appeal.

We can only hope.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

A woman who declared “Civil War is coming” and “they have to kill me” has asked for and received leniency.

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

This time: the Alaska GOP.

And linkages to broader US politics.

Brought to you by the son of Moon.

A podcast recommendation.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).