Democrats
January 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Here’s a political prediction I think you can take to the bank: the candidate who prevails among independent voters in November 2024 will win the presidential election. In the latest (2023) Gallup telephone survey data of partisan identification, the percentage of adult respondents identifying as Democrats has fallen to a new low of 27 percent — tied with the percentage of adults identifying as Republican. Independents rule (“independents continue to
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January 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
During a television appearance last night, I was asked why the Biden administration pursues an open border policy that has had catastrophic consequences and is deeply unpopular with voters. It is a good question. I agreed with the host that liberals think they are importing a lot of future Democrats. I also think some Democrats perceive that mass illegal immigration dramatically increases the demand for social services, most of which
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January 11, 2024 — Steven Hayward
With the Civil War back in the news—both the first one in 1861 (one of the items that will be a major focus of this week’s Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast coming Saturday morning) and the prospective one today because of Trump’s supposed “Threat to DemocracyTM” (let’s start calling it Civil War 2, or Civil War2), it seems to me worth re-upping the column I published in the New York Post
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January 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Two states, Colorado and Maine, have ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the presidency in those jurisdictions. These rulings are popular with Democrats: Rasmussen finds that: Sixty-six percent (66%) of Democrats approve of efforts to keep Trump off the ballot, including 50% who Strongly Approve. It is noteworthy that even among independents, 41% approve of Trump being removed from the ballot–not an auspicious sign for those who
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January 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A year ago I was confidently predicting that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump would be on the 2024 presidential election ballot. The Democrats would be crazy to nominate Biden, and the Republicans would be crazy to nominate Trump. And yet, with the caucus and primary season about to start, here we are. With no sign that the Democrats have a way to get Biden off the ballot, and with
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January 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Senator Robert Menendez wants to hang on to his Senate seat and who can blame him? It has served him well. The original indictment handed up against Menendez last year alleged a mind-boggling level of depravity and corruption. Among other things, he seems to have abused his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a disgusting manner. The betrayal of trust involved is difficult to fathom if not to
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January 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That is obvious from the “anti-racists'” explicit precepts, which call for race discrimination extending indefinitely into the future. If most people had any idea what the anti-racists say, they would be horrified. But here is a more specific instance of anti-racist bigotry: A US anti-racism campaigner has triggered outrage after she claimed “Zionist” doctors were giving worse care to black and Muslim patients. Saira Rao, a former Democrat congressional candidate,
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December 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Donald Trump has made news by saying, in these Truth posts, that Joe Biden’s illegal open border policy is intended to generate fraudulent votes in the 2024 election: Those posts are classic Trump. Who else in our political history–at least since the first half of the 19th century–has talked that way? No one. But what about Trump’s specific claim that Biden has allowed millions of illegal aliens into the country
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December 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I thought Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was an unfettered leftist. With his vocal support of Israel, however, I have to reassess. Fetterman is a better man — a better man than I previously thought. He seems more in tune with old-school Democrats than with the throbbing heart of the current Democratic Party. Annie Karni collects quotes from Fetterman and Bernie bro progressives expressing their disapproval of him in the New
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December 22, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In 2016 Russia “interfered” in our presidential election by buying a pathetically small number of Facebook ads on behalf of, or in opposition to, various candidates. We have never heard the end of it. Such interference by a foreign power is a threat to “our democracy,” we are told. But for some reason, American liberals have no compunction about interfering in Israeli politics. Our Democratic Party is overtly aligned with
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December 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I actually agree with that, although from a perspective a little different from Joe Biden’s. This short video is an entertaining reminder of what an indecent clown show the Biden administration has been. And it could have been much, much longer: Joe Biden: Decency is on the ballot! pic.twitter.com/20UHXfIHin — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 16, 2023
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December 21, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
California Democrat Eric Swalwell recently appeared at Hunter Biden’s press conference at the Capitol, reportedly acting as kind of “sherpa” for Joe Biden’s embattled son. As some observers recalled, Swalwell was a key player in impeachment bids against President Trump, and according to an Axios report become entangled with Chinese spy Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang and dubbed “PoonFang” by Rush Limbaugh. As Debra Saunders noted, Fang raised
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December 20, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post cover story today is by Alex Oliveira: “Record 12,600 migrants encountered at border in 24 hours — as backlog for immigration hearings breaks 3 million.” The story reports on our self-created border crisis. When I say “self-created,” I mean created by President Joe Biden. Why would a president of the United States do what he has done? Even certain well-known Democratic officeholders are unhappy with the
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December 11, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This Wall Street Journal poll confirms what we have all been seeing. The most basic moral principles–opposition to mass murder, gang rape and attempted genocide–are now part of our partisan political divide. Here are the numbers: Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-Israel, by 69% to 2%, while Democrats are more likely to be pro-Palestinian, by 24% to 17%. Young Democrats skew the balance, being overwhelmingly pro-terrorist: Democrats under the age of 50
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December 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
When liberals began their war on public monuments a few years ago, we were told that only statues of Confederate generals would be dismantled. Of course that turned out not to be true. While slavery is the purported justification for these erasures of history, even monuments to Abraham Lincoln have not been immune. Now, New York City–having, apparently, no larger issues to address–is considering tearing down statutes of George Washington,
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December 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I had my say on “My Cousin Dean” (i.e., Rep. Dean Phillips) just before he announced his campaign to challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination for president. I intend to leave it at that unless events transform the shape of the nomination contest — and the Democrat powers-that-be are doing their best to make sure that doesn’t happen. Jonathan Turley observes Dean’s treatment to democracy, Democrat style, in his
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December 2, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I’m starting to think that maybe we should wish for more Democratic politicians to have strokes like John Fetterman, because it seems it might make them better. It looks to be so in the case of John Fetterman. He’s clearly on the mend, not just physically, but mentally. First, in the aftermath of October 7, he has been unequivocally on the side of Israel, even seen parading outside the Capitol,
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