Pundits go into big stage events like the State of the Union address looking for headline “takeaways”, specific proposals that provoke or those that can guarantee surviving at least one news cycle. In this particular one last night, President Trump’s second, most were looking for a major pronouncement on the immigration stalemate and/or the declaration […]
The 2020 Madness Has Begun
The feeding frenzy of 2020 politics began when the polls closed on election day last November, so get ready for an often nauseating daily diet of who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out, particularly from the Democrats, who it appears might field a primary competition featuring as many as 20 or 25 candidates, most […]
The Election: Not Many Surprises
After reviewing the results for a couple of days and listening to a range of commentary on the outcome, I can’t seem to find many surprises in the mid-term elections. Here are a few thoughts: The progressive “blue wave” didn’t happen. Substantially all of the flips by the Democrats were in blue states and/or by […]
Not a Bad Year After All
Love him or hate him, and I have found very few who are indifferent, Donald Trump had a pretty good first year as President. How much of what has been accomplished can be directly attributed to him is debatable, but the same can mostly be said of any President. As Ramesh Ponnuru notes in National […]
Of Investigations and Partisanship
This letter has never been about partisan politics or about electoral politics generally, except to the extent of commentary on the ideas and policy priorities that drive electoral politics. No doubt regular readers over the years should have no difficulty in identifying my political philosophy, but I abjure partisanship. Consistent with this commitment, I have […]
Flake’s Instructive Withdrawal
I haven’t been a fan of Arizona Senator Jeff Flake because, in spite of agreement with him on a number of issues, his open disagreements with the President puts him very close to the category of a “never Trumper”, a posture that is not productive for the objectives they share. However, he gets credit with […]
A DC Whirlwind
We’ve not seen anything quite like it, at least in my lifetime. The Trump transition has been like a drink of water from a fire hydrant and we’re just two weeks into it. I said all along during the election year that I could see no really good outcome regardless of who was elected, but […]
Election Afterthoughts
We’ve now had about ten days to process the earthshaking presidential election, time enough for some afterthoughts and observations on Trump’s amazing victory and the reaction so far: Trump won primarily because of the failure of the Obama policy priorities and governing performance and the glaring weaknesses of Hillary Clinton as a candidate. As Karl […]
The Election
To paraphrase former President Gerald Ford at the end of the Watergate crisis, “our long national nightmare of a presidential campaign is over”. And the tradeoff that the American people have made is to accept the gamble on a politically inexperienced, often vulgar and undisciplined, and multi-flawed narcissist in exchange for finally ridding the nation […]
Uncharted Territory
Clearly, the notion of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for President, with all that he brings and doesn’t bring to the table, has sent the Republican party into a frenzy of soul-searching. We are truly in uncharted territory here and there is simply not yet an identified pathway. The only thing reasonably certain from […]
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