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Step Back from the Brink, Pro-Trump ‘Establishmentarians’
To hear the media tell it, the fix was in. The Republican primary was a two-man race, and “the establishment” had cast its lot with the Donald. Having cycled through the stages of grief over...
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After New Hampshire, Buckle In for a Long, Bumpy Ride
Fleeting hopes for clarity and consolidation after New Hampshire’s first-in-the nation primary turned into an anti-climactic nightmare for Republicans on Tuesday night, as Granite Staters scrambled the...
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Trump the Untouchable No More
The media are mystified. The partisans are flummoxed. Eight months into Trumpmania, the Donald’s popularity has shown no sign of abating. He just breezed to a 20-point victory in New Hampshire, and he...
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Self-Described Moderates Are Driving the Trump Coalition
At the advent of the Trump phenomenon, when the billionaire first started drawing crowds and making waves with his rhetorical bombs, the conventional wisdom was that he was appealing to a restless...
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On to Cleveland: The Republican Nomination Will Be Decided at the Convention
The race for the Republican nomination is going to the convention. It must sound strange to hear that -- given that this perennial contingency never gets past political-nerd fan fiction. It certainly...
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Wake Up from the White-Knight Fever Dreams
Spoiler alert: Paul Ryan is not going to be the Republican nominee. At least not in 2016. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but it’s a fantasy, and a counterproductive one at that.Don’t get me...
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Reading Rule 40: It Will Not Make or Break Either Trump or Cruz
As the prevailing winds shift the conventional wisdom about the likelihood of an open convention, a great deal of attention has been showered on the rules that might govern such a contest -- and...
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Let’s All Stop Trying to Make Trump Happen
As conservatives around the country wake up to the new reality of a Trumpist GOP, shell-shocked Republicans are still coming to grips with the implications. In one camp you have the eager team players,...
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If Mitt Romney Is the Answer, What’s the Question?
Let me preface this by saying I will never vote for Donald Trump. Nor would I support Hillary Clinton. Seeking to tease out the moral Gordian Knot this binary presents is not something I’m interested...
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Trump Triage
‘Abandon Trump.” “Pull the plug.” “Cut him off.”These were among the calls over the past week from increasingly panicked Republicans -- and not without reason. Trump is toxic where it matters, and he’s...
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The Blue Wall Crumbles
As both sides seek to make sense of the stunning results of last week’s election, the temptation is to cling to the most sanguine interpretations while dismissing less flattering realities. Democrats...
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Millennials Can’t Save the Democratic Party
Ron Brownstein had an interesting piece in The Atlantic this weekend contemplating whether Millennials, on the cusp of becoming the electorate’s predominant generational cohort, can be counted on to...
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In Replacing Obamacare, Republicans Face the Pottery Barn Rule
Republicans are in a box. A yuge, terrific box of their own making, rhetorically crafted over the course of seven long years, but a box nonetheless. Its walls are equal parts procedural, political, and...
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Good-bye to the Senate Filibuster of Supreme Court Nominations
You have to hand it to Chuck Schumer — he was dealt a brutal hand, but the man is putting on, if not a master class, a graduate-level seminar in misdirection and obfuscation. In the blink of a November...
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