It Ain’t Theft If It’s Legal
The party doesn’t owe the plurality leader diddly squat. It is known what he has to do. He has to actually do it.
Category: 2016 Elections
Ohio: The Fulcrum
Imagine a world where the leadership of the free world rests in the hands of one man from Ohio.
A man named… Rob Portman.
An Unfair, Post-Hoc Critique of Nate Silver
Trump’s probability of winning the nomination was not 1.5625%.
Conservatives, Donald Trump, and the Unseen
Conservatism stresses deference to the unseen. Trump rejects that out of hand, and he’s on the verge of the Republican nomination. What happened?
Polish-Chrome Cyborg America’s Freudian Ego-Ideal
And, as we often do, we turn to the Mormons to save us.
Paul David Miller: Let’s Resurrect The Federalist Party
It’s time for a new political party with an old name.
Ross Douthat: Goodbye, Bushism – The New York Times
Politically it was by no means a crazy strategy. For all his blunders, George W. Bush is still the only Republican candidate for president to win the popular vote in the last 25 years,...
Matthew Yglesias: I can’t be contrarian about Donald Trump anymore: He’s terrifying – Vox
I was a liberal Donald Trump apologist. Not a liberal enjoying the chaos Trump was sowing in the Republican Party, but someone who welcomed his ideological heterodoxy as a step away from the cliff of endless polarization that offered a more moderate substantive agenda than Marco Rubio’s. I held on to that conviction through Friday’s protest violence and Saturday’s torrent of “enough is enough” takes.
I was wrong.
A Post-Trump Landscape — The Buckley Club
So while the motivations of some might be financial, and others may be of principle, still others will be tyrannical and rooted in the worst natures of man. It’s a melting pot. There’s not...
The Republican Field, As Written By Hollywood
The cast of the GOP primaries is just horrible. Who wrote this crap and how were these characters conceived?
A Note on Semi-Super Saturday/Sunday
A quick look beneath the headlines from this past weekend’s contests.
James Traub: Do Americans Really Want a Wall? – Foreign Policy
Leadership, of course, means persuading citizens to go where they would rather not. A President Clinton would have to find the language to convince Americans that a deep and ongoing engagement with the world, even...
Open Letter on Trump from GOP National Security Leaders – WOTR
Mr. Trump’s own statements lead us to conclude that as president, he would use the authority of his office to act in ways that make America less safe, and which would diminish our standing...
Robert Kagan: To Republicans afraid to take a stand against Donald Trump: Grow up – The Washington Post
You sometimes get the feeling that if Mussolini himself were about to win the nomination, Republicans would still be talking about Clinton’s email server. This is nonsense. Republican voters and the party leaders who...
Chemi Shalev: Trump’s Triumphs Demolish Netanyahu’s Fortress GOP Strategy – Haaretz
In the outgoing dogmatic GOP, Trump’s equivocations would have earned him a place in the all-time rogues gallery of Enemies of the Jewish People, somewhere between Obama and Father Coughlin. Today, Evangelicals shrug them...
Romney Condemns Trump
A grownup finally steps in. Bear in mind, this is an argument aimed at Republicans.
Full text and video.
Thomas B Edsall: Why Trump Now? – The New York Times
The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool’s errand.
