Writing more in sorrow than in anger, “The Risky Wager of Betting on Trump”, the National Review’s Andy McCarthy has had it up to here—okay, maybe not all the way up to “here”, but almost all the way—with Donald Trump: Since the election, we’ve had two months of a president publicly insisting the election was…
Tag: 2020 Presidential Election
Some “conservatives” are whistling past the graveyard of American democracy; others are busy swinging a shovel
I like to keep track of what the “responsible right”, as I like to call them, is up to, a task that I perform by rounding up the usual suspects—Ross Douthat, Jay Nordlinger, Kevin Williamson, Ramesh Ponnuru, David French, and Jonah Goldberg, among others—finding most of them at either the National Review or the American…
Political Notes From All Over
Steven Pearlstein: Even-handed or Empty-Headed? I report, you decide. In a recent column, WashPost business dude Steven Pearlstein says what I have been saying about the Republican Party: …[B]roach-no-compromise obstructionism has been the strategy of congressional Republicans since the mid-1990s. Since then, two Republican House speakers have been run out of town for their lack…
Yes, Donald Trump is destroying American democracy and the Republican Party is helping. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Only eight years ago—how time flies!—Republicans were actually embarrassed by the fact that since 1988 their nominee for president had won more votes than his opponent only once, compared to five second-place finishes. Now if you ask a Republican “strategist” about the fact that it’s now one out of eight, he’ll explain to you genially…
Happy Days Are Here Again! Comparatively speaking, I mean.
Anyone reading this under—well, under fifty, I’m afraid—may not get the reference, to the once famous Democratic victory song, which goes back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, but getting Donald Trump out of the White House is sweet indeed, though taking the 2020 election results as a whole, it’s rather like sitting down to eat…
Today the Struggle Begins, Part II
Okay, I was a little overly pessimistic yesterday. Uncle Joe is, I don’t know, 60% of the way to the White House? 75%? 85%? So that’s better. Everything else, not so much. Yes, getting Trump out of the White House will be a staggering improvement, but other than that, it was Democratic failure all the…
Today the Struggle Begins
The odds for a Biden victory do not look good. Possibly the Democrats will win the Senate. Probably they gain strength in the House. Our long national nightmare just got longer. Obviously, we cannot surrender to Trumpism. We have to endure, so that, eventually, when the emotions that brought Trump to power exhaust themselves, the…
Good news! (Sort of) Other countries have been even more f*cked up than we are!
Big consolation, n’est-ce pas? Well, at this time of the “Big Wait”, when I am pathetically hoping for a Biden blow-out and even more pathetically trying not to think, really, not to think about anything at all, it is “nice” to think that other nations have, at other times in their history, endured internal distress,…
Donald Trump must really be in trouble, because Ben Sasse is kicking him
You know a pimp is hurtin’ when his whores start to turn. Anyone who reads this blog—all three of you—know that I’m, well, basically terrified of thinking that Uncle Joe Biden has it in the bag, despite what the polls say. But here’s a real sign that Donnie’s ship is sinking: Nebraska Sen. Ben “Sassy…
Re the election: Wake me when it’s over. But only if Biden wins.
Yes, that’s exactly what I want for the next few weeks: Sleep, blessed sleep. Back in 2016, my worst fears came true,1 and as a result I now try not to think. Not that I’m superstitious or anything—it’s just safer that way! Or at least you sleep better. Sufficient unto the day is the evil…