Outside the Beltway

What if 2024 was a “West Wing” episode?

Trump’s second term would be much worse than his first.

Some interesting, if unworkable, ideas.

Doubling down on the MAGA.

Are the press out to get the President? Or abetting a coverup?

The Replace Biden bandwagon continues rolling. Evidence is mounting that he needs to get on it.

Who are you going to believe, the WSJ or your lying eyes?

Fund-raising alone won’t save American democracy.

The Gaza conflict has ousted a member of “the Squad.”

A whopping $50 million donation from a single nepo baby put him over the top.

Reactionary politics are not just a US phenomenon.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

2,000 Mules edition.

Democrats are helping the Republican Speaker tame his nihilist wing.

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

Well, more than two…

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

MAGA Republicans have owned themselves whilst trying to own the libs.

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Part of an ongoing conversation.

It is a bit of a mess.

A Man For All Seasons goes to the heart of our current political season

He may be fighting the last war.

Five months too late, we’re back to the Biden-McCarthy deal.

A familiar question is again a reasonable one.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

Explaining the inexplicable.

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

Biden did what he needed to do.

The last challenger to Donald Trump bows to reality.

The politics of chaos.

A data point or two amid the panic.

Live! From New York, it’s…wait, what?

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Yes, every special election is a very special snowflake, but trends do emerge

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and MAGA.

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

And the intuition that things aren’t really working.

No big surprises from the dumbest recurring contest in American politics.

The anti-Trump attack dog is out of the race.

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

Lines on the map for the win.