Author Archives: John Hinderaker

Is Trump’s Lawyer a Democratic Plant?

Featured image Today Mike Davis, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, gave an interview in which he insulted and threatened Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York. When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it was real: 🚨Trump's lawyer Mike Davis issues dark warning to NY AG Letitia James: "I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump… listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time and »

A Post-Election Minnesota Postscript

Featured image The New York Post headlines: “Failed veep candidate Tim Walz couldn’t even beat Trump in his home county in telling final blow.” Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz didn’t just lose the overall election to Donald Trump — he lost his home county to him, too. President-elect Trump’s overwhelming win saw him net 49.6% of the vote in Minnesota’s Blue Earth County, where Walz’s family lived for »

Two More Takeaways

Featured image This year’s election exposed the relative insignificance of two of the main pillars of the Democratic Party: money and control over the press. Thirty or forty years ago, it might have been impossible to overcome a much better-funded opponent who was supported by virtually 100% of what then constituted the press. In 2024, Donald Trump was able to blow past those once-formidable obstacles. First, money. Financial resources are obviously significant. »

Report: DOJ Shutting Down Trump Prosecutions

Featured image Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought two criminal prosecutions against Donald Trump, one arising out of his retention of allegedly classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and the second out of his actions and inactions during the January 6 protest. The documents case has been dismissed on the ground that Smith was not properly appointed as Special Counsel. Now, DOJ reportedly intends to dismiss those cases immediately: With his resounding »

What Happened?

Featured image I yield to no one in my admiration for Donald Trump’s comeback. He overcame remarkable obstacles, worked like a dog, and pulled off one of the great political triumphs in American history. But this election, despite how the propaganda press tried to frame it, was not mostly about Donald Trump. The New York Times is at it again this morning, talking about Trump’s “cult of personality.” But Trump didn’t run »

What Alternative Reality Looks Like

Featured image The New York Times, which is printed in some bizarre universe with superficial resemblances to our own, explained this year’s election to its readers in an email this morning. This is what the Times has to say about Donald Trump: If Donald Trump wins, he has promised a far-reaching agenda that includes a rollback of climate regulations, an expansion of oil and gas drilling, the mass deportation of people who »

Not Being There

Featured image I am somewhere over the Atlantic, returning from two weeks of vacation in London and Paris. I didn’t plan the vacation in order to get out of the country immediately before the election; this was the only two-week slot that worked, if we were going to take a vacation this year. But being gone did have advantages. I followed events fairly closely, checking poll data daily on RealClearPolitics, enjoying Trump’s »

Is the Future of Our Democracy at Stake?

Featured image The Democrats are trying to run on the issue of “democracy,” which polls tell us ranks around fourth in voters’ rating of issues. It has never been clear what Democrats mean by claiming that Our Democracy™️ is on the ballot. Ironically, though, in a very real sense it is. I have been in Europe for the last couple of weeks. A few days ago, I had a conversation with a »

Another Dumb, Weak Trump Woman

Featured image If you haven’t already seen it, this is for your viewing pleasure. Trump’s National Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, absolutely lays waste to an ABC Democratic Party spokeswoman: HOLY SHT! @kleavittnh absolutely destroyed this ABC host to oblivion 🔥🔥🔥 She will crying herself to sleep later 😂 Best clip of the day 👏🏼pic.twitter.com/hKZ6oqC4b6 — Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) November 1, 2024 For what it is worth, I would say that Trump, »

Dems Gone Crazy

Featured image In the last days of the presidential campaign, Democrats have cranked the hysteria up to 12. Start with Tim Walz, who referred to Elon Musk as “that gay guy,” and then, with a malicious leer, said “Michigan knows that word.” Walz’s aides now say he “misspoke,” and blamed it on a “stutter.” We have listened to Walz’s endless yammering for some years now, and we can assure you, he does »

Universities vs. Jews, and America

Featured image The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has released a report titled “Antisemitism On College Campuses Exposed.” At 122 pages, plus a much longer appendix, I haven’t had time to read it all. I want to call attention to one section of the report that describes the reaction of some educators and politicians to the scrutiny that universities received in the wake of widespread anti-Semitic activity on their campuses. »

Is Trump Winning?

Featured image The subject line on this morning’s New York Times email is, “Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race.” The Times’s theory is that low-quality polls sponsored by conservatives are distorting public impressions of the state of the race: The partisan polls appear focused on lifting Republican enthusiasm before the election and — perhaps more important — cementing the idea that the only way Mr. Trump can »

The Stenographers Object

Featured image Joe Biden’s unscripted denunciation of Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” threw a monkey wrench into the last week of Kamala Harris’s campaign. The White House scrambled to minimize the damage, ultimately coming up with the idea of adding an apostrophe so that Biden referred to Trump’s “supporter’s” as garbage–meaning just Tony Hinchcliffe. No one who saw the video was fooled, and the White House stenographers were offended: The White House »

Follow the Law? Why?

Featured image Minnesota law dictates that the validity of absentee ballots be evaluated in a bipartisan fashion. The law requires each county and other authority “with responsibility to accept and reject absentee ballots or to administer early voting” to “establish a ballot board.” Ballot boards must consist of election judges. Each party provides the county with a Party List, and county authorities are required to use these Party Lists to recruit election »

Signs and Portents

Featured image The Democrats are pushing all the chips into the middle of the table. With Kamala Harris calling us Nazis and fascists, and Joe Biden calling us garbage, they aren’t planning any sort of unity-fest if they win. While Donald Trump is laying out a positive vision for his second term, one that will benefit all Americans who aren’t financially tied to the status quo, the Democrats are preparing to go »

New Ad Exposes Dems’ Radicalism

Featured image We have written about the radicalism of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, as reflected in Walz’s education policies, most recently here. A new ad, playing in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, hits Walz hard: The ad is sponsored by Restoration PAC. I don’t know how much money is behind it; I believe it is digital-only, not playing on broadcast television. But I hope it will have impact in the campaign’s »

Jeff Bezos Explains

Featured image Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, made the decision for that newspaper to stop endorsing presidential candidates. His decision has been controversial: something like 200,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions, and several Post employees have quit in protest. Which is revealing in itself: many Post readers, and I suspect most Post employees, thought that helping to elect Democrats was the whole point of the operation. Bezos explained his »