Outside the Beltway

The illogical of MAGA.

Remember Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed!

A response to an argument based on feels not facts

Spoiler alert: This is going to be a disaster

A year-long Continuing Resolution or bust?

It made history in many ways.

Beware the Ides of March.

It “literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

Some comparative data.

Putting down markers for future reference.

Elon is on record warning Trump supporters to be prepared for “temporary hardship”

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

Trump’s Anti-Black, Anti-Haitian Propaganda Is Harming Real People

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

A nonsensical proposal.

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

It’s a relative thing.

There’s momentum for changing the most controversial Trump era tax change.

And the intuition that things aren’t really working.

More thinking about the 2024 GOP primary.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

Some New York Republicans are fighting for their constituents and against the GOP leadership.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

I went down the rabbit hole a tad…

A reminder of how things (specifically the party system as a whole) have changed.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The 42-year-old billionaire makes history in many ways.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

The Commonwealth’s undemocratic political system is, shockingly, unrepresentative of the will of its people.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

It does not create better deliberation.

This is no way to run a railroad.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

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

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

Yet another reminder about pathologies of US democracy.

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

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

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

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

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

More on presidential nonsense with a brief diversion into blogging philosophy.

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a more detailed version of her ‘Medicare For All” plan late last week. It leaves much to be desired.