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For Now at Least, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail

For Now at Least, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail

“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re...

18.01.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

For Now, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail

For Now, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail
17.01.2025 40

Townhall

Michael Barone

China’s sixth-generation jet is a strategic threat

China’s sixth-generation jet is a strategic threat
15.01.2025 6

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

For now, Trump is succeeding while his opponents fail

15.01.2025 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose

Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose

The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly,...

12.01.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Facebook embraces free speech: The masses win, the experts lose

09.01.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Toward a Political History of the Last 75 Years

Toward a Political History of the Last 75 Years

New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics...

06.01.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Toward a political history of the last 75 years

New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is Real Clear Politics...

01.01.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits...

27.12.2024 5

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The winners and losers of 2024

With Christmas in the rearview mirror, the end of the year is fast approaching, and it was a doozy. It’s hard to argue that 2024 was anything...

26.12.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Time for Trump to drop lawsuits and for the press to apologize

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits...

26.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Even before taking office, Trump may have brought down the Canadian government

Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is either, depending on your perspective, projecting power or spreading chaos beyond...

18.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

NCAA president thinks men deserve priority in women’s locker rooms

NCAA President Charlie Baker apparently thinks that female athletes are more of a burden to college sports than they are equal members who deserve...

18.12.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Trump’s success: Who’d a-thunk it?

Who’d a-thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power seems undermined by...

18.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from...

16.12.2024 20

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen -- inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today -- switch...

13.12.2024 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

Free speech: Why a tech titan backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen, inventor of the first internet web browser, perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today, switch from his...

11.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the...

07.12.2024 2

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Chicago antisemitic hate crime suspect was an illegal immigrant

04.12.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Politics of economic redistribution, RIP

04.12.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Groups and Barista Proletariat of the Democratic Party

Postmortems of the Democratic Party’s loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., are starting...

01.12.2024 4

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The Democratic Gerontocracy Forgets the Lessons of Its Youth and Maturity

Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the...

15.11.2024 1

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The Democratic gerontocracy forgets the lessons of its youth and maturity

14.11.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Grant Ujifusa, rest in peace

08.11.2024 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

What you didn’t hear about on election night: The other 43 states 

06.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Who’ll Make the Last Mistake in This Flawed Campaign?

“The only garbage I see out there is his supporters,” said President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, referencing a comedian’s comment at former...

02.11.2024 3

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Who will make the last mistake in this flawed campaign?

30.10.2024 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Democratic Party’s Bad October

Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier a day...

26.10.2024 6

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The Democratic Party's Bad October

Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier a day before Nate...

25.10.2024 1

Townhall

Michael Barone

Are Minorities Voting More Like ‘Normies’? 

Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states.  “Never seen anything like this in 30 years,” said California...

18.10.2024 1

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Normies?

Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. "Never seen anything like this in thirty years," said California...

18.10.2024 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Harris’s jeremiad against Columbus is ragingly hypocritical

15.10.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Are minorities voting increasingly like normies? 

15.10.2024 7

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

What the Census Can Tell Us About Swing States

Jonathan Draeger, reporter for RealClearPolitics, wrote Tuesday that "the 2024 presidential contest couldn't be tighter." Unless, of course, it...

11.10.2024 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

The Vice Presidential Debate May Matter

Vice presidential debates don't matter, we have been assured over and over. No one votes for vice president or a presidential nominee for her or...

04.10.2024 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The vice presidential debate actually may matter

02.10.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Harris Campaign Might Need to Change Its Strategy

In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy,...

27.09.2024 50

Townhall

Michael Barone

The Harris campaign might need to change its strategy

25.09.2024 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Voters Don’t Want Harris’ or Trump’s Campaign Policies

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any...

20.09.2024 1

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The Federal Communications Commission’s public DEI shaming is unconstitutional

19.09.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Teamsters poll highlights the Democrats’ working class problem

19.09.2024 70

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Voters don’t want Harris’s or Trump’s campaign policies

19.09.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

What If Trump Runs Ahead of His Poll Numbers -- Again?

As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see...

06.09.2024 2

Townhall

Michael Barone

Harris makes Pittsburgh her home base for next five days

04.09.2024 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

What if Trump runs ahead of his poll numbers — again?

04.09.2024 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Lots of Tumult and Little Bounce This Election Year

What if they held a tumultuous election, with an early one-sided debate, a candidate substitution and third-party withdrawal, and no voters changed...

30.08.2024 1

Townhall

Michael Barone

The College Graduates’ Presidential Candidate Doesn’t Know Economic History

Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to...

23.08.2024 2

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The White College Graduates' Party's Candidate Doesn't Know Economic History

Learning isn't necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to...

23.08.2024 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Will the 49th Democratic National Convention matter?

19.08.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Who’s for the First Amendment—and Who Isn’t

“There’s a lot of opposition to just hearing what President [Donald] Trump has to say,” Elon Musk said at the beginning of his two-hour...

17.08.2024 4

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone