Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put it best on the Senate floor: “Let’s not have any lectures about how the President should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election”. I agree completely and would add this: Trump owes […]
No Blue Wave
Consider this assessment of the election results by Van Jones of CNN on election night: I think a lot of Democrats are hurt tonight. We wanted to see a repudiation of this direction for the country. And the fact that it’s this close, I think…it hurts; it just hurts. There’s the moral victory, and there’s […]
The Election and October Surprises
After all of the dynamics that have informed this election year in an historic dimension, it was difficult to imagine anything more to add to the perfect storm that this process has become. Wrong. Now we have a President in the midst of a pandemic who has tested positive for the coronavirus, and who knows […]
The Politics of It All
As we move into Labor Day I have no exceptional polling analysis suggesting who might win in November, but I suspect the Trump/Biden race is closer than current polling would have us believe. And I didn’t spend a lot of time watching either one of the virtual party conventions. My intuition is that the Republican […]
The SOTU 2020
Only in Trumpland America could we have the State of the Union address the night before the Senate is to vote on the impeachment of the President! You can’t make this up. But it illustrates how rapidly the impeachment issue has been relegated to the back burner and totally dismissed by most attentive observers–it was […]
The Iowa Caucus Fiasco
The best quote of this week for me was an excerpt lifted from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal on the disastrous Democratic primary vote count in Iowa: “The college of cardinals at least lets the world know with white or black smoke how the vote for pope is going. Here the party that […]
Impeachment Update: I Told You So
I closed the December issue by responding to a correspondent that, in the immediate aftermath of the impending House vote on two very weak articles of impeachment he should watch Nancy Pelosi’s next moves very closely and I suggested to readers that they consider this: Does Speaker Pelosi really want to preside over an impeachment […]
Finally, Brexit Means Brexit
It was a long, bitter, and high risk fight, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson deserves a lot of credit for his dice roll in the UK in an election that will have implications far and wide. This is a big deal in many more ways than Brexit. Anyone who looks at these results in Britain […]
A Parting Year End Comment and Some Personal Items
December is usually an open month for the Pilgrim, but I can’t resist some year end comments on the impeachment show trials along with a couple of personal items. First, the impeachment “inquiry”. The so-called Pelosi “moderate” Democrats couldn’t hold off their party’s hard left wing nuts, aided and abetted by a compliant media, and […]
The Rise of the “Disrupters”
Gerald Seib writes in The Wall Street Journal that it makes sense that, in an age of technological disruption, it figures that the most important trend in international politics is the rise of disruption in our traditional political system. And, of course, the disrupter-in-chief is Donald Trump, who has now been joined by the new […]
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