A Whole-of-Government Response to One Joke
On October 24, a former president compared a gilded White House to a restaurant. By October 31, the sitting president, the Treasury Secretary, a cable news crew, and the right-wing blogosphere had dec…
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Cheat Like Hell: The January 3 Playbook
The president told his party to cheat, a retired judge published the mechanism for the coup, and the fate of the 120th Congress may now rest on one of the least known jobs in Washington: clerk of the …
Diesel at Six-Fifty Is the GOP's Kryptonite
One number on a diesel pump is now worth more to the Republican Party than the president of the United States, and everyone in the room knows it. "It's a referendum on our government. [Trump] is the h…
Raise Your Right Hand: The GOP's Oath Rally
The Republican Party's first midterm convention in the modern era ended the only way it could: with the president asking a half-empty arena to raise its hands and swear an oath of fealty. "Please rais…