Outside the Beltway

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

So says Pew.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

Maybe this will help someone understand.

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

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

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.

His column for The Hill feels more like concern trolling than anything else.

Here we go again.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

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

So. Much. Winning.

Not ordering the flags at executive buildings to half-staff.

“Trump is a failed leader.”

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

Trump tried to interfere in GA earlier than we knew.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

And here we go.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

The two races are almost identical.

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

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

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

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

The sitting president is asking GA officials to find votes despite the fact that the results have been confirmed thrice.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

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

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

That President-elect Biden is shaking up his protective detail isn’t unusual. The reason, however, is.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

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

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.