Liz Cheney, Evan McMullin, and Miles Taylor were supposed to save the GOP from itself by saving it from Trump. There was just one problem: GOP voters don't want to be saved by anyone the media would send to their rescue. ICYMI, my latest for @ArcDigi. arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"Given the silence that has already enveloped Liz Cheney, her House GOP colleagues' decision to exile her to the backbenches seems to have been a sound one." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"There are other Republicans besides Donald Trump and Liz Cheney, a fact the media and supporters of both conveniently forget. Whatever the post-Trump future of the Republican Party, Liz Cheney won't be shaping it. Nor will Evan McMullin and Miles Taylor." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"A less famous signatory, Susan Del Percio—a 'Republican strategist' who hasn’t worked on a GOP campaign in 15 years—is a regular fixture on MSNBC, as are Dent, Riggleman, and Steele, where all four lament that the GOP isn't more to MSNBC viewers' liking." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"The names affixed to McMullin and Taylor's 'Call for American Renewal' were ones even political junkies would have been hard-pressed to identify . . . As one Twitter wag deliciously phrased it, 'The list is a veritable who's who of who cares.'" arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"Never one to question an anti-Trump gimmick, Jennifer Rubin declared the McMullin-Taylor menagerie the beginning of a 'stampede away from the GOP.' As some had become Democrats, one wondered just how they were going to leave what they'd already left." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"The reality is that this farce was but the latest curiosity in the cabinet of third parties and anti-Trump splinter groups. Whatever their past standing, no one who signed has any in the GOP or the conservative movement today." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"They are as anonymous as their co-founder's alter ego. The only way these 150 men and women would be 'prominent,' as Taylor dubbed them, is if Merriam-Webster redefined yet another word." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"Taylor vowed to run for president as an independent and recruit other conservatives to do the same to stop Trump should he garner the 2024 GOP nod. Most third party candidates are anonymous, so he would fit right in." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"There is something innately condescending about Taylor and McMullin's enterprise. When their associates asserted . . . 'the Republican Party has lost its way,' one couldn't help but feel that what they meant by this was that the Republican Party was no longer going their way."
"They sounded like Kipling-esque Europeans trying to impose 'civilization' on backwards natives; natives they now find to their horror are revolting."
"There's no getting around the reality that the new Supreme Court has its conservative favorites and its progressive enemies, and that the court stands ready to recraft American democracy in its image."
This caterwauling, as much as his expansive and unflinching decision, is why it was so important that Samuel Alito have the opinion in the Brnovich case. newrepublic.com/article/162912…
I have a hard time believing the latest numbers from Civiqs, which have Joe Biden's job approval underwater at 44-49. Those absurd Biden +20 polls were implausible, but so is this Biden -5 one. H/t @BarneyFlames. civiqs.com/results/approv…
Biden's approval in Ohio is 39-54. I'm not saying I buy that, but as long as he's underwater in Ohio, Tim Ryan is going to have a tough time winning against any Republican.
Biden's net approval in swing states per Civiqs: Ohio -15, Wisconsin -6, Arizona -15, Florida -12, Georgia -14, Iowa -17, Michigan -7, Nevada -2, New Hampshire +5, North Carolina -6, Pennsylvania -5.
Being booted from House GOP leadership was supposed to give Liz Cheney a new megaphone to spread her anti-Trump message. Instead, eight weeks later she has barely made a noise. Just as anyone not in the DC bubble knew would happen. My latest for @ArcDigi. arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"To hear the media tell it, she had it all planned out. Cheney was playing a 'long game' to win control of the Republican Party and banish Donald Trump. Getting booted from her leadership post in the House GOP conference was her opening maneuver." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"It's certainly possible Cheney will enjoy an elevated stature in American politics; time will tell. The problem is that having a megaphone that lets you address the national media means little if you can no longer get a hearing in the Republican Party." arcdigital.media/p/liz-cheney-f…
"John Fetterman . . . touts himself as a man of the people but has a Master’s degree from Harvard. He looks like a Philly dock worker, but that doesn't change the fact that he has a degree from a school most people could not get into on their best day." ordinary-times.com/2021/07/06/han…
The fundamental incoherence of French's argument, however, is truly revealed in this passage: "A wiser response to problematic elements of what is being labeled critical race theory would be twofold: propose better curriculums and enforce existing civil rights laws."
First, there is no logical reason that an alternative curriculum to CRT would be "better." Or that one is necessary. Removing CRT from the existing curriculum would, from the perspective of its opponents, would alone make it better. Which would satisfy French's first proposal.