Outside the Beltway

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

It’s just not immediate.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

Always look for evidence.

The GA14 House race.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Jared Kushner and others want one that fits on a index card.

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

It would be laughable, but the White House might be interested.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Four highly-qualified (and two less-qualified) women ran and lost in 2020.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

CBS did a lousy job.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

Sad news from the conservative talk icon.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

(At least the removal part)

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

A real world illustration.

The Trump campaign and the Republican Party brought in more than $150 million in the last three months of 2019 alone.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

Mitch McConnell and the other 99 members of the Senate will be required to take an oath to “do impartial justice” in the impending impeachment trial. He’s already admitted that he won’t.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

Especially Senate inaction.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.