Democrats
June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As one scandal after another befalls Graham Platner, national Democrats have closed ranks behind him. No doubt they are privately calculating whether they need to dump him, and if so, whether it can realistically be done. But in public, they are with Platner 100%. With one exception: as in so many other instances, John Fetterman dissents: “Every Democrat knows P-Hustle has Nazi ink, was Captain D–k-Pic on Kik, abusive towards
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats are outraged over the news that the administration is considering issuing a $250 bill in commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, with President Trump’s picture on it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent displayed a mockup of the hypothetical bill: I think this is a marvelous troll on the part of President Trump. Trump has a sense of humor, and his critics generally don’t. Thus, they often fail to understand when
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night, I was on the Sky News U.S. Report with host James Morrow. It was an excellent conversation that covered the latest allegations in the prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the clown show that Democrats have made out of Congressional committee hearings, and the collapse of 60 Minutes. There is a harkening back to Rathergate, and discussion of the Ku Klux Klan–a group that, years ago, I
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June 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ostensibly on the State Department’s budget. But Democrats on the committee have no interest in any legitimate oversight role. Nor do they have any interest in asking Rubio questions. They proceed in what has become the usual style: they harangue the witness, often with an affect of insane rage, and the witness may or may not
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June 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has posted the current results of yesterday’s many primary elections here. The results are too numerous to take in or assess in one gulp, but the Democrat/MSM axis appears largely to be happy with them. Politico Playbook puts it more bluntly, and you can’t get any more Dem/MSM than PP: “Establishment Dems surge, MAGA quakes.” Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass survived the mayoral primary to proceed to the
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June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
When the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Graham Platner’s sexts with multiple women on a hookup app, written just months after his marriage, Platner remained silent and sent his wife Amy out to do a video. Amy said that she and Graham were working on their marriage, but it’s hard: a classic formula for our time. She reminded me of Hillary Clinton, salvaging her husband’s campaign back in
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May 31, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Scott notes below the latest fiasco in the candidacy of Graham Platner for the U.S. Senate. On paper, one would think that Platner is the worst candidate for any office ever to surface in either major party. A self-described Communist with a Nazi tattoo, a man with zero political experience and little success in business, a crude bully and misogynist with a twisted sexual history–how could Platner possibly have crushed
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May 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Maine Democrat Graham Platner is about to become the Democrats’ nominee to take on incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in the 2026 elections. The Nazi tattoo Platner sported for years — until he decided to enter politics — would be enough to kill the dreams of most candidates, but it appears to be no problem for Democrats. CNN’s Michael Smerconish calls out Graham Platner over n*zi tattoo, “He didn’t cover
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May 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Maine’s Graham Platner is one of the vile candidates for the United States Senate that the Democratic Party has vomited up and into public prominence. He recently attacked Army combat vet and Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels. I have posted a thumbnail photo of Daniels on the home page. Fox News caught up with Daniels for a video response to Platner that is posted here. The editors of the Wall
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May 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
So goes, we hope to God, no other state. Currently there are two big election campaigns going on in the formerly prosperous state of California. The first is for Governor, where Democrats are aghast at the reality that Republican Steve Hilton may very well win. The Democrats’ problem is that, as so often is the case, notwithstanding their claims to overwhelming intellectual superiority, their candidates suck. One of those bad
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May 23, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Stephen Colbert is finally off the air. We and CBS can both breathe a sigh of relief. Although–I am happy to say–I have never spent a single minute watching Colbert, one of the Left’s several faux comedians. Colbert has been on something of a farewell tour, as though he were important or popular. Left-wingers in entertainment and politics have offered one paean after another to the failed talk show host.
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats think they have the GOP on the run for this year’s midterms courtesy of their Iranian allies, but a problem looms: they need a presidential candidate for 2028. It has been a while since the Democrats have fielded a strong presidential nominee. Joe Biden was pedestrian at best in 2020, and Kamala Harris was awful in 2024. Surely they can do better in 2028. Right? Perhaps not. Rasmussen reports
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, check out this chart showing political donations by occupation, where the donations are most one-sided either in favor of Democrats or Republicans: The most striking part of this chart is how much bluer the bluest occupations are than the reddest are red. Progressives & liberals are far likelier to live in a monopartisan/monocultural bubble. pic.twitter.com/ZO4DlKzQjp — Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 19, 2026 Dan McLaughlin’s observation is clearly right,
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May 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
When Scott and I began writing newspaper op-eds and magazine pieces circa 1990, one of the subjects we focused on was the Democrats’ persistent lying about taxes. One of our articles in National Review, which exposed lies that Democratic journalists told about former President George H.W. Bush’s taxes, generated a signed, hand-typed letter from Bush to us. Lies about taxes are particularly absurd, since the IRS publishes data every year
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May 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It is a remarkable fact about the Democrats’ Senate candidate in Maine, Graham Platner, that his Nazi tattoo is not the most reprehensible thing about him. His social media history is appalling and is just now coming to light. Thus: Seven years ago, Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner cruelly mocked an American soldier who was caught on camera taking fire from the Taliban in Afghanistan. The viral helmet footage
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May 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has collected yesterday’s primary results here. I focused on the race featuring Ed Gallrein against incumbent Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in the Kentucky Fourth Congressional District primary. Massie lost by ten points, 55 percent to 45 percent, or about 10,000 votes. Massie has turned massively erratic in a Tucker Carlson sort of way. He gave a hint of his post-congressional career in his graceless remarks conceding defeat by…well, you
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May 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The conflict in Iran has, in a sense, united Americans across ideological divides. Liberals are rooting for the mullahs and are delighted that so far, they have been able to hang on. Not the original mullahs–they are mostly dead–but their successors. Conservatives are frustrated because we don’t understand why President Trump has allowed third-generation mullahs and the IRGC to stall for over a month, while ostensibly engaging in negotiations. But
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