From GOP leaders to titans of business, those who might have mitigated the president’s second term lawlessness instead bent the knee. Each had their reasons.
Ed Kilgore
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The New Christian Right
The charismatic religious movement that supports Donald Trump is less misogynistic and racist than the old Moral Majority, but far more determined to crush liberalism by any means necessary.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2020, Magazine
What Motivates the Republican Party?
The GOP seems wildly hypocritical and unprincipled, until you understand its guiding idea.
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2019
Why Music Videos Can Do Political Blogging A Little Bit of Good
My strange contribution to the Monthly’s Political Animal Blog.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2016
1968 Versus 2016
Despite the many similarities, this year isn’t 1968. Because Hillary understands what Johnson never did: that he had to be (mostly) at one with his party’s base.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Day’s End and Weekend Watch
In all today’s acknowledgements, I should include my dear sweet wife, Dawn, who has put up with all manner of madness attributable to the Animal, kept me from succumbing to Blogger Rage, and most of all, made the worst of days better than any I spent before lucking into her company. Here some final remains […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Gratitude
So Paul Glastris didn’t need to do this, but he did another farewell tribute to ye olde blogger today, and I just want to reciprocate. Nobody’s who not pretty intimately connected with WaMo or at least very familiar with the magazine biz knows how many times Paul has kept this enterprise going via a combination […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Thought Those Private Property Rights Were Sorta Divine
Color me a bit less than sympathetic to ole Huck here (per ABC’s Josh Haskell): Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is being sued by the co-writer of the song “Eye of the Tiger” after the song was used at a rally that the former governor spoke at when Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
The Gubernatorial Class of 2016
Tomorrow’s election in Louisiana provides an excuse to mention something that is rarely discussed at the national level during a presidential cycle: gubernatorial races. There are in fact twelve governorships–8 held by Democrats, 4 by Republicans–up next year. Half of them involve open seats due to term limits or retirements. The good news for Democrats […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Lunch Buffet
So let’s round up and chow down one last time: * Special forces apparently working to release hostages taken by Islamists in Mali. * Marco Rubio–you know, the Establishment darling–allows as how U.S. may need to close mosques even though “closing mosques” is not what closing mosques would be “about.” * Chinese police kill 28 […]
