Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay for this episode of The Spectacle to hear their ideas on what Republicans should focus on to win elections. Leave us a comment on what you think the GOP’s next move should be. Listen…
The 2022 midterm elections were, by any objective measure, tremendously disappointing for Republicans. As has already been discussed ad nauseam, the “red wave” that so many — yours truly included — had predicted simply did not materialize. The reasons for…
Over there at National Review, our friends have run a piece simply titled “No” — over a photo of former President Donald Trump as he announced his campaign for president this week. Respectfully, my response to the Trump announcement is…
Republicans, especially those running for president in 2024, know how to get treated “respectfully” by the mainstream media: denounce or at least distance yourself from former President Donald Trump. Former Vice President Mike Pence has learned that lesson and is…
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — If you’ve been consuming fashionable media for some time, you’ve read a story at least once a decade headlined “Brazil: The Emerging Superstate.” I’m sorry, but in which of those decades was it that Brazil finally…
“Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan,” observed the late Democratic President John F. Kennedy. But that’s certainly not the view in the GOP, where those responsible for the party’s malaise, far from suffering the ostracism of the…
Given a choice between squish and screwball, the Right prefers either to a Democrat. Conservatives nonetheless might consider adapting to our nonbinary age by envisioning choice C, D, E, and beyond. “America’s comeback starts right now,” Donald Trump explained last…
Republicans will control the House of Representatives, barely. The instability will require strategic brilliance, which is in short supply. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wants to run again, but he is done. Eventually, Joe Biden, who makes a fool of himself, will…
Yes, I know that on Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced he’s going to run for president again. It’s all anybody seems to want to talk about. But that’s a squirrel. It’s a shiny object. It’s useless. There are lots of…