Their dangerous rival just got convicted on 34 felony charges, and the reaction from Democrats is just what we’ve come to expect: They not only don’t know how to capitalize on it, they’re not even sure they should mention it. Now do you understand why they lose?
Self-doubt is not something that Republicans ever have to deal with. You might have noticed that MAGAts are calling for violence. Or maybe not, since they call for violence pretty much all the time. I blame this on the hours they spend in mom’s basement playing Call of Duty.
Hunter Biden’s trial on gun charges starts today in Wilmington. If Republicans want to whine about politically motivated prosecutions, they don’t have to look far.
If there’s a through-line of consistency to the Biden administration’s foreign policy, it seems to be a desire to avoid escalation. They won’t confront Netanyahu in part because they fear a wider regional conflict, and they wouldn’t allow Ukraine to use American weapons to strike on Russian soil. The fear there is that Putin will go nuclear; these authors argue he’s bluffing, and Biden should join Europe in calling that bluff.
If the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are having a race, famine seems to have seized the lead from pestilence. The starvation in Gaza is being matched by starvation in Sudan. Meanwhile, in America, sales of Ozempic are soaring.
Mexico elected its first female president Sunday, but that seems less important than the fact that her background is in climate science. Try to imagine that happening here.
The floor’s yours.