Outside the Beltway

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

The GOP will almost certainly survive. But in what form?

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

And here we go.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

Our long national farce is over.

One member of the Grand Old Party has had it.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Not of governance.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.

The early reaction was premature.

A lot to think about, not a lot of conclusions.

Trump needs them both.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

The two parties learned different lessons from the last contested election.

Disconnected representation in action.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A defense of the indefensible.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

The convergence of design flaws in the constitution and a flawed leader have brought us to brink of an electoral crisis.

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?