Outside the Beltway

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

Can’t a pundit fantasize about an alternative to the two major parties?

Don’t get your hopes up.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

The pressure and expectations of a king, but with considerably less power.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

The erosion of representativeness continues.

The Politician’s Syllogism rears its ugly head.

A blast from the past.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

Part of a disturbing trend.

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

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

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

I couldn’t help myself.

Definitions are fun, right?

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

American fascism is on parade, right now.

Some recommended reading.

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

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

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

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Not that one. The other one.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

CBS did a lousy job.

Dennis Prager makes me feel like we are living in the Upside Down.

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.