Why ban TikTok? Because China! Because Internet! Banning TikTok may or may not be the answer to a maiden’s prayer, but for many Democrats and Republicans, it is a much needed balm for all their wounds, or so they are so foolish to believe. Democrats and Republicans are unhappy because neither can command the support…
Tag: Republicans
Back to “Normal” in 21? We should be so lucky.
There’s been a meme floating around for the past several years, pushed perhaps most assiduously by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, and given another shove in his recent column “There Will Be No Trump Coup”, picturing that man in the White House as a “noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat”, an embarrassment rather than…
Never-Trumpers, learning to lie back and enjoy it
You can’t blame anti-Trump conservatives—well, you can’t blame them too much—for squirming under the pressure of having to constantly agree with, you know, liberals that Donald Trump is a continuing disaster and disgrace to the United States of America, easily the worst man ever to occupy the White House, a man without honor or scruple….
An embarrassment of parties, an embarrassment of elites
The New Hampshire results are in, and both parties look terrible. For the Republicans, the base is worse than the leadership. For the Democrats, the leadership is worse than the base. Half the Republican base generally regards foreigners as job-stealing, welfare-loving rapists and terrorists. Such rank nativism hasn’t played a significant role in American politics…
Iraq now must be seen as the Republicans’ Vietnam
Well, it was a long time coming, but now it’s here. Heresy-speakers Donald Trump and Ted Cruz walked away with the most recent Republican debate. Both Trump and Cruz have repeatedly and explicitly rejected the regime change meme that has been the foundation stone of Republican foreign policy since 9/11. And will no one notice…
You call that hicky? Get a mirror, girlfriend. A big one.
The much-reviled Mike Allen at Politico explains how Jamestown Associates, a Republican consulting firm, achieved that elusive “West Virginia” look for a GOP ad. Among other things, plaid is the new black. via John Chait at the New Republic.