L’Affaire Padilla was clearly a stunt, intended to create outrage that the Trump administration knew no limits in its authority and was perfectly willing to use force against its political opponents. As I wrote earlier, it is part of their strategy to define responses to the chaos, riots, and provocations as proof that Trump is...
Democratic-leaning groups Way to Win and Impact Research are polling the issue of immigration in battleground districts and shared the data with Politico. According to their research, while Democrats can’t dig themselves out of the deep and steep hole they have dug for themselves, there is a way for Democrats to create a Narrative™ that...
They say that the No Kings rallies scheduled for Saturday are intended to be peaceful protests against Trump the tyrant. But then again, they are also claiming that the violence in Los Angeles and other cities is “peaceful,” so the word has as solid a meaning to them as the verb “is” had for Bill...
Yesterday, Ruy Teixeira had a story up at the Free Press titled “The LA Riots Are a Trump Ad.” He’s not the only person who has made this point but as usual he does it very well. The chaos in Southern California could have been designed in a lab to exploit Democratic weak spots, combining...
Minnesota Democrats are trying to lay the blame on Republicans, and with some reason, but when push came to shove, they caved and are cutting illegal immigrants off from state-subsidized healthcare. The reason? Shockingly enough, there isn’t enough money to spread around to all their favored constituencies after having blown an enormous budget surplus in...
Across the U.S., Democrats are waging war to crush a lifestyle they abhor. Call it small-town America: single-family neighborhoods, quiet streets, town centers stamped with their own historic character, and almost no signs of the vagrancy and homeless encampments that plague cities. Democrats want you to have...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Reporting fromSouth Carolina Getty Images Jim Clyburn, 84, has been a staunch supporter of Joe Biden, 82 – even after revelations about Biden’s declining health were made public For 33 years, Congressman Jim Clyburn’s “world famous fish fry” has been a must-attend event for members of the Democratic Party hoping...
Amid the ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, some Democrats are advocating for courting Musk as an ally — a move that demonstrates the willingness of some members of the party to compromise principles to win elections. Over the past week, Musk has openly and frequently criticized Trump’s budget proposal —...
Progressive critics and Democratic lawmakers responded with predictable fury and contempt after President Donald Trump delivered new details for his 2026 budget request in a Friday night news dump that appeared timed to attract as little attention as possible from the voting public. “It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on...
The ability to reason is often seen as a distinctively human trait, distinguishing us from other animals. It may (or may not) be uniquely human, but another quality seems to be, and that is our moral sense. We can argue about whether a crow’s ability to solve some puzzles as well, or often better, than...
The Free Press just published an interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book “Original Sin.” There have been a lot of these interviews at this point so there aren’t really any brand new additions to the big picture here, but I do think that Bari Weiss, more than some interviewers, focused in...
Six months after an election that saw the Democratic Party lose, in chronological order, their incumbent presidential candidate, the United States Senate, and the White House, some statistical analysis has come out, primarily in the New York Times but also in some other polling outfits, that indicate the troubles facing the Democratic Party are getting...
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 proved that there has been an ongoing realignment in American politics, so it’s not quite absurd for Democrats to believe that they may have a chance to win in places that have been hostile to Democrats for decades. The party of Bush and Romney flocked to their antithesis,...
Everybody knows that Democrats are in a pickle, which I suppose is better than outright rotting. At least pickles are being preserved for later consumption. Even without all the doubt about Trump’s policies and the unrelenting attacks on the president by the media and his opponents–who include almost every major culturally significant figure in the...
I dunno. Maybe stop trying to impose radical cultural notions on voters who keep insisting on rejecting them? Maybe start with Latinx and move outward? Just a thought! Anyway, first one has to accept the obvious, and neither Democrats nor the New York Times have gotten to that stage on the Kübler-Ross process. In fact,...