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The GOP remains cowed by Trump's MAGA army — for now
Trump emerged from his Florida lair and may have finally woken up the resistance
Last February, as Donald Trump was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he appeared at SneakerCon in Philadelphia to debut his latest...
There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove...
Once upon a time, there was a Trump toadie who wrote a fatuous children's book about a good king being persecuted by an evil queen named Hillary...
Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when special prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the Jan. 6 indictment and the...
A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with...
Contrary to his customary bragging that he won the election in an unprecedented landslide, President Donald Trump's percentage of the popular vote has...
During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect...
I recently saw the movie "The Apprentice" about the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious lawyer who was involved...
Well, President-elect Donald Trump certainly is off to a roaring start, isn't he? Ensconced at his Mar-a-Lago beach club with the richest man in the...
It's been a week since the election of Donald Trump and the shock is just now beginning to wear off. The ritual Democratic self-flagellation is...
Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath a little bit and get through the grieving process over last Tuesday's election, the inevitable...
Donald Trump has once more won the presidency. It's as shocking as it was the first time and even more terrifying. We should have seen this coming...
Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it's been. Just a year ago, Florida Gov....
A couple of weeks ago the gang down in Mar-a-Lago was popping the champagne and gleefully drawing up plans to further destroy the White House gardens...
In front of an enormous crowd of 75,000 people last night, Kamala Harris gave what was billed as her "closing argument" on the Ellipse, the site of...
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent out a statement this week drawing attention to the fact that...
Before Donald Trump was considered nothing more than a circus sideshow, some of us noted during the 2015 GOP presidential primaries that his rhetoric...
The 2024 election is just a little over two weeks away now and most Democrats are down to their last nerve with worry. This is nothing new, of course....
We have officially entered the manic stage of the presidential election in which the candidates are suddenly everywhere. At least Kamala Harris is...
Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake of...
In every losing campaign's postmortem, the analysts insist that the candidate should have gone where he or she did not. There were...
Exactly eight years ago this week, the Obama administration formally accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National...
I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17-year-old over the weekend who's taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the...
I once wrote that Liz Cheney was the most dangerous woman in America. I thought she could easily be the nominee in 2024 and believed that she'd be...
Writing about a debate on the morning after always feels more like theater criticism than political analysis. How did they look, how did they sound,...
I don't normally pay too much attention to the vice presidential debate during a presidential election campaign because they tend not to matter all...
As a politician, Donald Trump has always exhibited a very creepy form of paternalism. He often says things like "No one has done as much for the...
Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans got a little bit of good news over the weekend with some highly respected polls coming in showing that Kamala...
All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt....
There's been a lot going on this week so you may have missed Donald Trump introducing his latest business venture on Monday. You read that right. He...
If you feel as if American politics have taken yet another deep dive into the Trump show maelstrom, you aren't alone. This past week has been a...
Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA's laughable insistence that Trump won the...
According to the New York Times/Siena poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President Kamala...
After Donald Trump once again demonstrated his monumental ignorance with his answer to a question about child care at the New York Economic Club...
It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt...
One of the articles of faith about the 2020 election among the MAGA crowd is that Joe Biden couldn't possibly have won the election because he...
Ah, the lazy, crazy days of August during a presidential election year are upon us. That's traditionally when the political press decides that the...
Over the weekend Donald Trump whined that the Harris campaign was treating him like the incumbent and it's totally not fair: The fact is that...
Someone once asked me who I thought would be the Democratic equivalent of Donald Trump would be. My answer: Kanye West. He's world-famous, extremely...
Kamala Harris looks and sounds like a president — so much so that you almost forget that if she wins she will be the first woman to hold the office....
I've told the story before, but it bears repeating in the context of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. I attended the Democrats' convention in...
All the attention is going to be on the Democratic Convention in Chicago this week but it's pretty clear that for the next few weeks, the center of...
Donald Trump is in a bad way. His campaign has completely lost its bearings with the withdrawal of Joe Biden and the ecstatic reception of the Kamala...
The Trump campaign issued a very weird statement yesterday disavowing the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 — again. As campaign managers Susie...
After having spent most of the last two years playing golf and dining with his paying fans at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump picked up the...
When Donald Trump began his third run for president back in 2022, he said very explicitly that his campaign was organized around vengeance for his...
July 21, 2024, was one of those "where were you when you heard" days that people will remember for a long time to come. I was online that early Sunday...
I said a couple of weeks ago that if President Biden decided to withdraw from the race it would be awesome if he would do it on the night Donald...