The Twitter Files communication breakdown
The gradual release of the Twitter Files is impressive in its scale and its revelations about the internal workings of…
Will Republicans learn from the midterms?
The 2022 midterm elections consumed more than 16.5 billion real American dollars. They featured thousands of candidates and the most…
One failed Republican autopsy was enough
The news that Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is planning on conducting an “autopsy” of the 2022 election…
Mike Pompeo prepares for 2024
The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest on November 9, 2022 — and it could prove far…
Nancy Pelosi won’t go away
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that in the wake of Republicans taking the House, she’s doing exactly what the…
We can blame Mitch McConnell, too
So now it’s time to figure out who to blame. The post-election spin from the world of Mitch McConnell is…
The time to move on from boomer Republicanism is now
Having been saddled by everyone involved with the largest portion of blame for Tuesday’s election disappointment, Donald Trump’s descent into…
Why the red wave never crested
The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…
Why Trump jumping in early would be a mistake
Donald Trump is expected to announce that he is running for president again next week on November 14, according to…
Will this election finally be the end of Betoism?
Democrats across the country should be grateful for what Republicans are about to do: rid them of a nagging disease…
Kitchen tables versus kitchen tablets: the real election divide
It’s useful to think of this election as a contrast between how, in the simplest understanding, people see the world…
Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars
It was a relatively cool 85 degrees in Houston on the August evening thirty years ago when Republicans gathered at the…
Letting John Fetterman debate was political malpractice
Like the proprietors of a gimp show at a carnival, Pennsylvania Democrats apparently get off on making the average viewer…
Evan McMullin is the candidate from the deep state
Many Republican observers of the Utah Senate race have noted Evan McMullin’s obviously false claims at anything approaching ideological conservatism.…
Will the Nury Martinez fallout break Los Angeles politics?
The resignation of Nury Martinez, the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council, is a dramatic development that…
The Raphael Warnock debate gaffe the media missed
Herschel Walker’s performance in Friday night’s Georgia Senate debate provided a good example of the benefits of lowered expectations and…
Shane Gillis is going places
It is a hot summer night at the truck warehouse that is home to Magooby’s Joke House, and 2014’s Baltimore…
Mitch McConnell isn’t going anywhere
Just a few months ago, Blake Masters was strongly criticizing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, expressing hopes, as other conservative candidates…
NATO vote shows conservatives are getting it right
Yesterday’s 95-1 vote in the Senate to support the admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO is another in a…
Dobbs has changed America forever
For nearly half a century, American politics has been defined according to the strictures of a single Supreme Court decision:…
Why expanding NATO is an America First idea
There is an open tug-of-war going on right now over the direction of foreign policy on the right. The attempts…
The media’s Glenn Youngkin rope-a-dope
I regret to inform you that America’s decrepit media commentators are once again attempting to play a game of rope-a-dope…
Who will stand for free speech?
The primary feeling is a sense of dread. The oily scent of torches set aflame is in your nostrils, and…
The end of Roe is a victory for Conservatism, Inc.
On a day many Americans on both sides of the abortion issue thought would never come, the Supreme Court reversed…
The Cato Institute fails to stand up to cancel culture
The recent controversy over prominent legal commentator Ilya Shapiro’s employment at Georgetown University Law Center ended last week. In a…
