National Republicans
Trump’s Reich
Surely, I thought, this isn’t true. Not even the Trump-MAGA crowd would boast that one result of Trump’s election would be a “Unified Reich.” “Reich.” Like Hitler’s Third Reich. But there it was, on Trump’s Truth Social account, among messages flashing across the screen: “Trump wins!!”, “Economy booms!” and – yes – a headline with…
Read MoreThe Circus is Back
Taunting Trump, Biden quipped, ‘He’s not a good loser – but he is a loser.’ Taunting again, mocking Trump saying ‘injecting bleach’ might stop coronavirus, quipped, ‘I think that’s what he did. That’s why he’s so screwy.’ Biden also said when he took office inflation was 9% – even CNN couldn’t shallow that one, pointed…
Read MoreThe Drama Queen Strikes Again
You couldn’t make this stuff up. Trump posted on Truth Social that Biden’s Justice Department: ‘AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE’ when it searched his home at Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents. When she read Trump’s post Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eyes popped – minutes later she took to Twitter: ‘The DOJ and FBI were…
Read MoreAnger Rules
Pompous, mean tongued, to abolish slavery – in 1856 – Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner tore into two senators who owned slaves, calling one ‘a noise-some, squat, nameless animal,’ saying the other had a mistress, ‘the harlot, slavery.’ Sitting at his desk in the empty Senate chamber two days later, head bent, leaning down writing, Sumner…
Read MoreThe Past Returns
A Hollywood star growled Trump’s like ‘Hitler’ on TV. Trump roared Biden’s a ‘total moron’ at a rally. There’s not much kindness left in this election. ‘The past isn’t dead it’s not even past’ is an old truth. Reading dry tomes, diaries, following threads, Erik Larson just wrote a book about the firing on Fort…
Read MoreA Fallen World
Trump slammed Kennedy. Biden slammed Kennedy. Kennedy told how a worm ate a piece of his brain, added he’d recovered. So we’ve got a porn-star testifying against Trump… Biden telling Israel ‘no more bombs,’ stop bombing Gaza – after Hamas slaughtered Israelis… Kennedy with a dead worm in his brain… And one is going to…
Read MoreTrump’s $1 Billion Bribe
This one stands out – even in the never-ending flood of Donald Trump’s sins, crimes and scandals. But the national media hasn’t given it the same time and space as, say, President Biden’s age or swing-state polls. At Mar-a-Lago last month, The Washington Post reported, Trump told Big Oil executives that if they raised $1…
Read MorePoll Numbers
A political candidate lives in his or her own small world. Fitting a jigsaw puzzle together, figuring out how to win an election, everything a candidate knows goes back to what he sees, hears, likes, fears, what he’s lived through – and there’s only one way he can escape that small world. Poll numbers aren’t…
Read MoreCharacter Hardly Matters
We’ve never seen an election like this one. There was a time, long ago, when a candidate had to pass a ‘smell test’ – a character test – to get elected. If he flunked the test even people who agreed with him, shaking their heads, wouldn’t vote for him. We’re in an era now where…
Read MoreWe Have to Get Rid of Both
Kristi Noem’s attractive. Long brown hair. Glossy lips. A MAGA superstar on Trump’s list of picks for Vice President. Last weekend she went on Face the Nation to sell her new book – sunk herself. In her book, telling a story about meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Noem said, “I’m sure he underestimated…
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