You know, he’s got a point there! If you shut your eyes very tightly, Donald Trump will go away! And so will everything else! Like Josh, I wish that Joe Biden were more than minimally competent. I wish he didn’t sound like a 79-year-old man (I’m 77) who’s tired of all your back talk and…
Tag: Republican Party
The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party? Part II Part 1: Tim Miller’s Why We Did It
A couple of years back, when, it seems, I was feeling particularly down in the mouth, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, a couple of actual Republicans have written books asking themselves the same question, viz. Matthew Continetti (The Right The Hundred Year War for…
Yo, Joe! When Denouncing Donald Trump, It’s Considered Bad Form to Imitate Him!
Yeah, Uncle Joe was in rare form at his Independence Hall spectacular, complete with “dramatic” lighting and U. S. Marines in full dress uniform. I mean, who was the advertising wizard who came up with that one? But, seriously, folks, it’s a seriously dismal idea to use U. S. military as the backdrop for any…
Shorter Megan McArdle: “Yes, I am a lying hypocrite. Why do you ask?”
Alan Vanneman non-fave rave Megan McArdle has had a revelation: “It’s time for Republicans to save themselves”. According to Ms. Mc By mid-February 2016, it was clear that some kind of collective Republican action would be needed to keep Donald Trump from winning the nomination. Instead, everyone stood around hoping that someone else would do…
The Democratic Party has a duty to ensure that the Republican Party will nominate Senate candidates who will defeat their Democratic opponents in November, Megan McArdle explains
Why are the Republicans putting up such shitty candidates for the Senate this year? So shitty that the Democrats might actually maintain control of the Senate in what should be a shitty year for them? Well, it’s all the Democrats’ fault, says Megan McArdle, who apparently likes to think of herself as the “thoughtful” (“thoughtful”…
Is Ron DeSantis inevitable? Well, maybe.
The National Review can’t get enough of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and it’s easy to see why: DeSantis drooler in chief Rich Lowry’s review of DeSantis’ bad boy with a Harvard sheen swagger bears the following subhead: “A glimpse at what Trumpism without Trump can look like.” Okay, to some of us that can…
The Benedict Strategy, Spinoza Edition
I don’t know if you’re up on Rod Dreher, who moans and groans with varying degrees of accuracy regarding the woke folks over at the American Conservative. Rod, a floridly passionate Christian, seems to have undergone several denominational makeovers, rejecting the Catholic Church to settle, I think, somewhere in the fields of Eastern Orthodoxy. Awhile…
Ginni Thomas is making white people look bad
I am flabbergasted—and, believe me, I do not flabbergast easily—by the lack of response among the chattering class about the fledermaus1 freaky emails exchanged by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over that horror of horrors, the Biden “coup”. Among other things, Thomas repeated…
Mike Pence goes INSANE! Says the American presidency belongs to the American people
Did someone put LSD in Mike Pence’s milkshake? Did he have a drink with a woman who was not his wife without the presence of the woman who is his wife? I doubt if we’ll ever know, but, whatever the cause, I’ll be eternally grateful, because Big Mike, speaking to a friendly (I hope) crowd…
Political Notes from All Over
Turnout, Turnout, Turnout! Why Democrats love it and Republicans hate it. Ruy Teixeira, a Democratic political centrist after my own heart, has a post up at his Substack blog, The Liberal Patriot, How Not to Build a Coalition, arguing, correctly, in my opinion, “High turnout is just not the magic key to Democratic victories the…