Thursday, June 20, 2019

TOUGH-GUY TRUMP SHIES AWAY FROM WAR AGAIN

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I'd just finished a post arguing that President Trump doesn't want to go to war (because war is hard ) when this appeared, in respon...

TRUMP: WAR IS HARD!

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Two stories today confirm that the only reason President Trump hasn't gotten us into a war is that it's too much effort for him. F...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

POLITICO: BEING AN ATTENTION JUNKIE IS TRUMP'S SUPERPOWER

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The toddler president of the United States can't bear the thought that Democrats will likely dominate the news cycle next week when they...

DID BIDEN LIKE THE SEGREGATIONSTS? AND IF NOT, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO TELL?

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It's possible that Kate Riga of Talking Points Memo has this somewhat wrong: Former Vice President Joe Biden seems to have missed the ...

RETURN THE ANTI-VAXXERS' MONEY

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It's a mistake to see anti-vaccine conspiratorialism as a purely grassroots movement. This is the new Gilded Age, so it's no surpris...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

A PASSIONATE CULT FOLLOWING IS NOT A NATIONAL CONSENSUS

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The president tweeted this yesterday: The Fake News doesn’t report it, but Republican enthusiasm is at an all time high. Look what is go...

IN IRAN, WHERE'S THE CRAZY HARD-LINER WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

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We seem to be on the verge of war with Iran: The Trump administration and its domestic political allies are laying the groundwork for a pos...
Monday, June 17, 2019

THE OBVIOUS MESSAGE IN TWO STORIES ABOUT TRUMP'S POPULARITY

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Trump fans are vigorously pushing this story: President Trump supporters line up 40 hours before Orlando rally More than 40 hours before ...

KYLE KASHUV WAS THE VICTIM OF A RED-ON-RED ATTACK

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Ben Shapiro is appalled. Our universities may be irrevocably broken. On Monday, Parkland survivor and outspoken conservative Kyle Kash...

THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN FIRES THE WRONG PEOPLE

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The Trump campaign has fired some pollsters: President Trump’s campaign is cutting ties with three members of his polling team after grim n...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

FRANK BRUNI: GLIB AND WRONG AGAIN

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The Democrats seem to have a pretty good shot at victory in the 2020 presidential contest. Since it's difficult to bothsides an election...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

THEY'RE SAYING WARREN IS A HILLARY CLONE BECAUSE IT SCARES THEM THAT SHE ISN'T

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Jim Gerghty's National Review column on "The Many Similarities between Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton" is as forced an...
Friday, June 14, 2019

THE TRUMP POLLING SPIN SEEMS INCREASINGLY DESPERATE

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Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that internal Trump campaign polling showed the president faring very badly against Joe Bid...

TRUMPISM IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE RULERS ENVY THE RULED

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In a monologue on the radio yesterday, Rush Limbaugh hinted at a few aspects of the conservative psyche that I don't think he was inten...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

PEOPLE KNOW TRUMP'S STRUGGLING IN THE POLLS AND IT'S FREAKING HIM OUT

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ABC's George Stephanopoulos spent a couple of days this week with Donald Trump. During a limousine ride, Stephanopoulos asked Trump abo...

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PRESIDENT LEAVES THE BUBBLE

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The president said something he wasn't supposed to say out loud: President Trump said on Wednesday that there would be nothing wrong wi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

IRONICALLY, IF TRUMP LOSES IN 2020, IT COULD BE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T LIE ENOUGH

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This Washington Post story reminds us of one aspect of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign that he's unlikely to replicate this time around...

THE JOE BIDEN OF PUNDITRY ALSO THINKS DONALD TRUMP IS UNIQUE

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Joe Biden is often criticized -- deservedly -- for arguing that Donald Trump is an anomaly and the Republican Party will revert to a saner p...