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Michael TomaskyThe Daily Beast |
I was busy ignoring politics and focusing on college football Saturday, so it was only around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, when I was sleeplessly scrolling...
If you had told me a year ago that Donald Trump was going to skate away from all the legal trouble he was in, I would have laughed in your face. I was...
In yet another “how could this be?” moment for liberals and Never Trumpers of all stripes, we’re now seeing polls on the president-elect’s...
You know the old leftist phrase “the worse, the better”: It’s said to date to the early days of revolutionary Russia, and it means that the...
I’m taking bets that Matt Gaetz will indeed be confirmed as our next attorney. I know all the clever people say otherwise. NBC News, in a story you...
Having lived now through four particularly stinging Democratic presidential election defeats as an adult (1980, 2000, 2016, and 2024), I can tell you...
I’ve had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris...
How in God’s name did the Democrats lose yet another election to Donald Trump , after defeating him somewhat comfortably four years ago? If you go...
I woke up Saturday morning, as you may have, to the sight of Donald Trump performing fellatio on a microphone (no, I’m not linking to it). The clip...
At closing argument time, it turns out that Donald Trump is making Kamala Harris’s closing argument. What is it? That women should not vote for him....
The psychological differences between liberals and conservatives are an important and underexamined aspect of politics. Never are they more...
What the hell is this “debate” about whether Kamala Harris should call Donald Trump a fascist? It’s too … what? Too aggressive? Too in your...
How Republicans win presidential elections, according to Republicans: We are the party of middle American morals and values, and the Democrats are the...
No group will likely be more important to a prospective Kamala Harris victory than women voters of color. And to take their collective pulse,...
If things go the way I hope they go in this election, it may well turn out that Sunday’s terrific New York Times piece by Peter Baker and Dylan...
If you know anything about the founding and history of the Republican Party, the symbolism of Thursday’s event where Liz Cheney appeared with...
It’s a pretty sad commentary on the way our mainstream media cover Donald Trump that if you really want to know what Trump said at a given rally,...
Kamala Harris’s economic vision speech (delivered in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, a mere two days after yours truly wrote that she needed to give an...
There are six weeks to go now, and as we enter the home stretch of this election year, I think it’s crucial for all of us to remember something....
It was billed as an antisemitism event, and, well, I guess it was, ultimately, although not in the intended sense. The phrase “antisemitism event”...
Remember back in the spring when the conventional wisdom was that this Trump campaign was a highly polished operation? Chris LaCivita and Susie Weil,...
I know some people don’t like to play the “Imagine If!” game, but at times it’s hard not to wonder, “Imagine if Joe Biden had said the crazy...
Let’s cut to the chase: “I have concepts of a plan” was the defining moment of this debate and is going to go down in presidential debate lore...
Kamala Harris’s momentum has slowed just a bit. It’s still real. She’s still leading in the polls by around three points, even though we all had...
For months, Donald Trump’s frequent lapses into incoherence —the half-sentences that suddenly veer off toward a distant galaxy, the asides that...
If you’re lucky, you missed this one. I was not so fortunate, and so, this Labor Day weekend, I found myself staring at what is probably the worst,...
I got an email Thursday morning from a dear old friend of mine. He lives in Virginia. He’s a Democrat who was never susceptible to Donald Trump’s...
Vice President Kamala Harris has, for now, turned the presidential race around. She entered the contest five weeks ago inheriting Joe Biden’s...
Chicago, city of the famously big shoulders, is also one of wide, flat, long blocks. If you’re a New Yorker or a Washingtonian, and I tell you some...
Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not...
For the last 20 years or so, a tension has defined the Democratic Party. There has been a party that has been looking forward; and there has been a...
Being a liberal means complaining about the Democrats. It’s as axiomatic a law of life as the fatalism of Red Sox fans. More specifically, it means...
Fine, it went on a little long, especially for those of us in attendance. But night one of the Democratic convention was (almost) never boring and was...
For a Sunday before the Democratic convention, the headlines could hardly have been better from the Democrats’ perspective. “Harris Holds Slight...
It continues. Six days ago, The New York Times ran a story under the headline “Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign.”...
The Harris-Walz campaign proved two important things last week. First, it proved that sometimes all you really have to do is answer attacks—the mere...
Let’s start with Tim Walz’s positive attributes. One: He’s an extremely successful two-term governor—in fact, he’s almost certainly the most...
It was impossible to predict the explosion of relief, enthusiasm, and sense of mission that has greeted Kamala Harris’s presumptive—and now, as of...
What a stunning summer. A debate that rocked the political world as no other debate has in the history of presidential campaigns. An assassination...
People will start sizing up Kamala Harris as a possible presidential candidate here in the next few seconds, and I imagine we’re going to hear some...
Every media feeding frenzy is built around a narrative that completely snuffs out the counternarrative. In this case, three weeks now after President...
Regular cable news viewers will know that Lincoln Project consultant Stuart Stevens has been steadfast in arguing that the Democrats should stick with...
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life is obviously a horrendous development. It seems unique because he’s a presidential candidate and one of the...
Joe Biden had many lucid moments at his Thursday evening press conference, but the idea that we’re going to judge Biden day by day on the latest...