What makes our present politics so nasty, negative and intensely personal? Conventional wisdom blames ideological polarization, and the vast gap between left and right, for the bitter nature of the attacks and counter-attacks on all sides....
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Maybe it’s possible that Senator Tim Scott could have given a more effective address in responding to President Biden’s Joint Session Speech, but I don’t know how. What a masterpiece of both rhetoric and delivery! With a long history...
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Despite all the hype and hoopla of the recently concluded “Trump Fest” at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference), Republicans face a crushing collection of intractable problems and dire prospects for the immediate...
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For those elements of the GOP who hope to push their party in a more populist direction, there’s already a platform preamble that’s ready to go. “We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material...
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As pundits ponder the looming prospect of a “Republican Civil War,” they instinctively draw dire analogies with the cataclysmic conflict between Union and Confederacy some 160 years ago. But to gain a more illuminating...
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Despite encouraging news in Senate and House elections scattered across the country, the 2020 returns did little to shake the GOP’s recent status as near-perennial, popular-vote, presidential losers. In the last eight White House...
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Exit polls from the 2020 election show signs of a stronger Republican Party building a broader base. The Trump campaign focused on winning Black, Latino and Asian votes and, to a surprising extent, succeeded. President Trump’s percentage...
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Americans of every perspective say they’re disgusted by the polarization, pettiness and unbridled anger that have come to characterize our politics. The great majority of us say we want more cooperation and civility, but...
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Political analysts give plenty of attention to our partisan divisions according to race or gender, but not enough to the stark differences based on age. The good news for Republicans is that the Democrats are entirely reliant on young...
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Is American greatness a relic of the past or a reality of the present? If Republicans fumble this fundamental question and become the party of gripes and gloom, they will blow their chance of 2016 victory and imperil the party’s...
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