Outside the Beltway

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.

The early reaction was premature.

A lot to think about, not a lot of conclusions.

Trump needs them both.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

The two parties learned different lessons from the last contested election.

Disconnected representation in action.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A defense of the indefensible.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

The convergence of design flaws in the constitution and a flawed leader have brought us to brink of an electoral crisis.

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

It’s just not immediate.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

Always look for evidence.

The GA14 House race.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Jared Kushner and others want one that fits on a index card.

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

It would be laughable, but the White House might be interested.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Four highly-qualified (and two less-qualified) women ran and lost in 2020.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

CBS did a lousy job.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

Sad news from the conservative talk icon.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

(At least the removal part)

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?