Peak Performance
When all the world’s a stage democracy is vulnerable. As the GOP moved from formative to performative the common good gave way to personality.
Tagged: GOP
Dear RNC: This Guy Is NOT Your Friend!
Having run out of people on the left to scam, Vernon Jones has turned to the right and found a whole new set of gullible supporters.
Why Moderate Republicans Suck
If the GOP is to moderate, then there needs to be an effective moderate movement within the GOP forcing change.
After the Fire
NeverTrumpers have to ask themselves an important question: what will they do come November 4th? What happens when and if Trump loses?
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Miseducation Edition
Bad things coming for American education, the mask slips on mask wearing, and the ending of that Frederick Douglass speech everyone was sharing this weekend.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: No Good Answers Edition
A shooting in Atlanta shows a reckoning is a hard to acquire, lessons in governing from Seattle summer camp, and the primary heats up…for 2024
Republican Dissidents Shouldn’t Mourn They Should Organize.
NeverTrumpers and other Republican critics of President Trump should take a page from the labor movement.
Failure Propagates Upward For Democratic Party
The GOP still controls the vast majority of state legislatures and outnumbers the Democrats in states where they control both the governor’s house and the legislature. And that matters a lot.
The GOP’s Gossip Girls
I will not believe that the GOP is tired of Trump until they say so publicly. Until that moment, they own this. All of it. Every corruption, every racist utterance, every violation of norms. Every dollar of debt, every pardoned war criminal, every dead Kurd.
Analyze This: 2004 Video of Donald Trump and Jesse Ventura
If you had told me 10 years ago that one day a member of the WWE Hall of Fame would be president, I would have responded, “Yeah, Jesse Ventura.”
Elephants vs Pachyderms
Unlike Four Years Before, The Battle For The 2020 Republican Party Nomination For President Is A Boring One, And Yet Neither Is It Historically Insignificant
The Hedgehog Who Won
In short, the Republicans rule the Winter Carnival but sacrificed their tongue in order to do so.
The Kelli Ward Guide to Turning Red Into Purple
Kelli Ward finally found a state wide office she could get elected to, having been sworn-in as the new GOP Chairwoman for the State of Arizona.
Linky Friday: For the 116th Time…
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times’ end of week tradition of bringing you linked stories from around the world and across the web. This week, “For the 116th Time…” a look at the many stories of the incoming US Congress, plus remembering the music of Roy Clark.
A Predictable And Yet Historic Midterm
Election Night 2018 Ended Up Being Everything It Was Hyped Up To Be; But It Also Gave Us New Trends To Keep An Eye On
Taking the Fifth
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the highest ranking female Republican in Congress. And I thinks she is in BIG trouble.
The Problem with Never-Trump Republicans
Never Trump Republicans may go the way of Moderate Republicans with no desire to do anything more than complain.
The Many Storylines Of The Upcoming Midterms
There’s More Than Just Control Of Congress To Keep An Eye On
