Outside the Beltway

He will challenge Greg Abbott for the GOP nomination.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Here we go again.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

President Biden masterfully used the pageantry of the day to shatter the self-asserted Trumpian monopoly on patriotism.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.

The early reaction was premature.

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

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

American fascism is on parade, right now.

Tommy Tuberville is likely the next Senator from the state of Alabama.

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

There’s very little upside.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

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

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

The White House office specifically charged with advising on and developing science policy now has no staffers whatsoever.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.