Everyone expected President-elect Donald Trump to win Florida’s 30 electoral votes on Tuesday night. But the defeat of ballot initiatives that would have legalized abortion and recreational marijuana in the state flew in the face of conventional electoral wisdom. What’s…
WASHINGTON — When The Associated Press called Monday’s Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific — a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast their ballots — it must have felt like a slap…
I’d gladly vote for Chris Christie for president. But he’s not going to be president. Unlike Ron DeSantis, whose supporters might split between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump if he (DeSantis) were to drop out, Christie’s current supporters would likely…
A marvelous feature of the Culture War is that it is the thinkers not government leaders who are waging and winning it. At least not the national leaders — yet. A few regional ones like Ron DeSantis of Florida and…
Why do sections of the American Right lust after bloviating decay? Because they’ve convinced themselves that just one more hit will disappear their pains. Unfortunately for them, there is no future with Trump except one of ruin. Whatever good came…
August is usually a limbo month, and this year is on par. The news is an unwatchable bore, wavering from charges against Trump to possible charges against Biden, to the latest premature polls, to moronic attacks on DeSantis as a…
Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign in a Twitter interview with Elon Musk. That May 24 fiasco (inept risk management) was properly ridiculed. Yet, a forward campaign easily would have overshadowed it; now, in retrospect, it was seemingly a precursor…
Veteran news anchor Brit Hume has just accurately summarized the 2024 election process: “It’s frozen and has been for many, many weeks now.” With the help of a patently politicized Department of Justice, former President Donald Trump has retained a…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Monday that bans state funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities. DeSantis enacted the law on the campus of New College of Florida amid protests from students, saying that…
