The past several months have been a Trump-loather’s1 dream. Watching the big guy’s world go sideways in so many ways—well, it’s so satisfying that one can’t help but wonder, “When did I ever get everything I wanted all the time?” It’s as though “science” had perfected a peppermint ice cream that causes you to lose…
Tag: Donald Trump
William Kristol no longer my least favorite neoconservative. For a while, anyway.
For a long time, Bill Kristol, self-anointed “boss” of the Weekly Standard (for so his minions refer to him), has been my least favorite neocon. Billie Boy bears more responsibility than any other non-government official for the trillion-dollar tragedy known as “Operation Enduring Freedom”,1 better described as “Operation Enduring Disaster”, an unforced error that cost…
Shorter Krauthammer: Trump has been president for two whole months and hasn’t destroyed the country, so shut up already!
That’s the word from the K-Man, writing in the National Review. See, it doesn’t matter that our chief executive, the heir to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and (I guess) Ronald Reagan, is an ignorant, unscrupulous, vengeful sociopath, a Huey Long with an outer-borough accent. We have two whole other branches of government as well….
Yo, Frank Rich! Want to beat Trump! REPEAL RENT CONTROL!
New York’s Frank Rich has an always hilarious and frequently accurate takedown of what Manhattanite Frank deems “Hillbilly Chic”, the new fashion for feeling the pain of the OxyContin-poppin’ white trash who supposedly put Donald Trump in the White House. As Frank shrewdly points out, if Hillary hadn’t pocketed over $21 million in speaking fees…
Why Did Hillary “Lose”?
The most important, and the ugliest, thing to happen in 2016 was the decision of 46 percent of the American electorate to vote for the worst major party presidential candidate in American history. The second most important was the decision of 48 percent to vote for Hillary Clinton. So why did Hillary “lose”? It is…
Shelf life of Trump Bump: 1 day
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? One whole day of “Papa Trump” before that nasty “Russian Connection” began to rear its ugly head once more, its rancid scent rising to the point that even FBI Director James Comey—“No Nose Jim”, as I like to call him—might be moved to say, “Now, what the heck is…
When Republicans collide: Trump versus Congress
Remember back during the primaries when we Democrats felt all we needed to do was stand back and watch while the Republican Party destroyed itself? That didn’t work out so well, did it? Now we’re at Round 2. President Trump’s “budget”, such that it is—a 9.2% increase in defense coupled with a 9.2% cut for…
Is Donald Trump as bad as the National Review says he is? Probably!
I’ve already frequently bemoaned the fact that so many U.S. conservatives are deciding that Donald Trump is, you know, our Wacky Uncle Donald, who doesn’t mean half the stuff he says (that is to say, half of what he says is a lie), and he does get cranky at times, but his bark is worse…
Explaining the Trump “Boom”
Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen have a question for Trump-loathers like me: If Trump is so bad, why is there no evidence that (as Tyler puts it) “America’s intellectual and media mandarins have been busy liquidating their long positions and buying puts over the past two months”? Okay, I guess I don’t really qualify as…
Give this man a cigar. And a beard.
Donald Trump just spent 80 minutes telling the press that he’s rubber and they’re glue, Politico reports. Surely, the Donald is just getting warmed up. Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Mussolini—all the greats—they spoke for hours. But just give the man time. I mean, talking is the one thing he’s good at. Afterwords Meanwhile, back in…