Outside the Beltway

A basic definition.

Gee, I wonder why?

The polls are showing a really weird dynamic.

A chilling admission from a leader in the President’s OWN party

Things have to be bad when they actually start to speak the truth to the President

…and I write a bit more than that.

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

America is getting screwed by playing by the rules it created.

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

On Christian compassion (and hypocrisy) and a little bit of the Streisand Effect for good measure.

An observation or two.

Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Barrett sided with the Court’s liberals.

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

Gaetz’s own party hates him almost as much as the Democrats hate him

Partisanship weakens the immune system and can lead to spread of bad ideas.

And who is “we”?

He has to be, right?

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

Of leopards and faces.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

It sounds the same in the original Russian.

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

How that awful man won again.

Unreality and sexual anxiety on display.

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

It’s the opposite of politics as usual.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Our long national nightmare is not over.

Subtle demographic changes may have created a tipping point.

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

Some direct evidence of the effects.

The 45th President and the press, part a million.

Confirming who he always has been.

More on Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

And his corruption.

Mark Robinson is the latest example.

Things may well get ugly regardless of the outcome of November’s election.

We live in interesting times.

Beyond politics, there’s culture.

Some additional (and longwinded) perspective.

The anti-DEI party is suddenly really concerned about identity

I question the strategy.