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If we weren’t living in “The United States of babies,” Maher said, then Griffin could have just apologized and then moved on, but instead the incident nearly ruined her career after she was called out by the president and first lady, and did lose her an annual New Year’s Eve gig on CNN among other things. … [Read more...] about Kathy Griffin Fires Back at Donald Trump Jr.: ‘I’m Not Decimated’

Sanders has gleefully discarded the party’s conventional wisdom that it has to pick and choose where to push public opinion leftward, adopting a comprehensive left-wing agenda, some of which is popular, and some of which is decidedly not. Positions in the latter category include replacing all private health insurance with a government plan, banning fracking, letting prisoners vote, decriminalizing the border, giving free health care to undocumented immigrants, and eliminating ICE. (I am only listing Sanders positions that are intensely unpopular. I am not including positions, like national rent control and phasing out all nuclear energy, that I consider ill-advised but which probably won’t harm him much with voters.) … [Read more...] about Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity

Soon, “Amnesty Don” was trending on Twitter in Washington, D.C., and a Breitbart News editor anonymously told the Washington Post’s Robert Costa that, “This a betrayal of the highest order. Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself.” … [Read more...] about Breitbart News Dubs Trump ‘Amnesty Don’ After Late-Night DACA Deal

Sure, Trump as president is a lot more powerful than Rubio the U.S. Senator, and you can make the Nixon-to-China argument that only someone with Trump’s nativist background can pull off the kind of immigration deal that has eluded his predecessors. But George W. Bush was president as well, and was once beloved of his party’s conservative “base.” It’s odd Trump would test his supporters’ fidelity so directly and with so relatively little to gain from it. Little Marco must be very amused today to discover Donald Trump walking in his boots. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Immigration Flip-Flop

Beyond the bruised feelings of true believers in the president’s message, the failure of Trumpism without Trump in an actual election is terrible news for Republicans hoping that Gillespie had found a way to keep their party united. A poll analysis from the Washington Post just a week before the election suggested that Gillespie had “successfully threaded the needle” by appealing to Trump’s white working-class base with harsh culture-war themes without alienating college-educated suburbanites interested in his tax-cut plans. Had he won or come very close, it might have reinforced the wisdom of the much broader GOP strategy of keeping its white working-class voters entertained with culture-war bread and circuses while rewarding traditional Republican constituencies with tax cuts, deregulation, and when possible, attacks on Big Government. Whether this strategy is an accommodation to Trumpism or the essence of Trumpism itself, had it succeeded, it certainly would … [Read more...] about The Uncertain Future of Trumpism Without Trump