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Trump Has Reached the Mountaintop
Jan 3, 2025 · by Bill Kristol. Donald Trump has dominated American politics for almost a decade. Thrice the Republican nominee for president, twice the victor in general elections, currently the undisputed master of a political party which will now control both the Senate and the House—Trump is the most consequential American politician of the 21st century.
The Final Beg to Differ
Dec 20, 2024 · Leave a comment. now! Make sure you sign up for Linda’s Substack.. Damon: While Damon finishes his forthcoming book on Leo Strauss, go down the Straussian rabbithole at Notes from the Middleground. Referenced work: Bret Stephens’s “Done With Trump” in the NYT
Think Trump Can’t Run Again in 2028? Don’t Be So Sure.
Nov 22, 2024 · THE TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT, ratified in 1951, says: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”That seems unambiguous, but some are skeptical: “When the time comes, the 22nd Amendment will prove to be as iron-clad as the 14th Amendment,” fears Jonathan V. Last. In June, a Colorado judge found that Trump engaged in insurrection against the United States ...
Bannon: Kash Patel Will Absolutely Investigate the People Named …
Dec 20, 2024 · dn’t try,” Bannon asserted, speaking in the third person during a one-on-one interview with The Bulwark following his speech to Americafest, a yearly gathering of MAGA diehards hosted by Turning Point USA. “He made a fucking movie that’s called Government Gangsters and the first guy is Merrick Garland, okay. And Lisa Monaco’s in there, who the nation doesn’t know—we’re trying ...
Yes, Trump Could Jam His Controversial Nominees Past Congress.
Nov 27, 2024 · There is one further procedural consideration to add to this that could, if legally upheld, give Donald Trump another way to effect a recess. The Constitution gives the president the power to adjourn Congress if the two houses disagree as to the time of adjournment. Under the most expansive reasonable interpretation of this, if one chamber adopted an adjournment resolution and the other voted ...
The New Age of Trump: Protection Money and FU You Money
Dec 13, 2024 · This week we got word that two of the world’s most consequential billionaires have decided to pay tribute—literally—to Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are each gifting $1 million to Trump’s “inauguration committee.”. A president’s “inauguration committee” or “inauguration fund” is a slush fund, pure and simple.
Trump World’s Confirmation Playbook: Speak Loudly and Unleash …
Dec 10, 2024 · IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR SEN. JONI ERNST (R-Iowa) to realize she had stepped in it. Shortly after Ernst offered a chilly reception to Pete Hegseth’s nomination to head the department of defense, she recognized she was in trouble politically, with grassroots Republicans calling for her head.
Protecting Those on the “Enemies List” - by Sarah Longwell
Dec 7, 2024 · This week Sarah and George talk about Tulsi Gabbard gorging herself on Russian propaganda, Trump's Nixonian enemies list, and whether President Biden should preemptively pardon people to protect them from Trump's retribution. Leave a comment Watch, listen and leave a comment. Don’t care for video ...
Assad’s Enemies Are Not Our Friends
Dec 13, 2024 · THE FALL OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD’S brutal regime is a moment for celebration. He is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the immiseration of millions more. Like his late Baathist co-partisan, Saddam Hussein, Assad used the state to torture, kill, and maim innocent ...