Outside the Beltway

It’s the opposite of politics as usual.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

A stroll through the archives.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

This time: Senator Marco Rubio.

One party is divided on how to govern and the other is united in not governing.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

David Brooks is the leader in the clubhouse.

The GOP will almost certainly survive. But in what form?

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

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

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Speaking of xenophobia.

An amusing discovery.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

Sigh.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

Republican candidates are lining up to take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even though the odds of a Republican winning in her district are essentially zero.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

In contrast to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the American public appears to strongly support statehood for Puerto RIco.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

Bernie Sanders supporters are a wee bit sensitive.

So good. So easy to win.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.

The Vermont socialist likes to invent rights that don’t exist.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Nein. Nein. Nein.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.