At various points in his career, Donald Trump has praised authoritarian rulers in places like Russia, China, and North Korea for having the ruthlessness to crush their political opponents. His worship of strength, contempt for reason, and appeal to base emotions has made many observers liken him to an authoritarian ruler, and even debate whether…
While there was some discussion among the Republican candidates at Saturday night’s debate in New Hampshire as to whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture (it is), Donald Trump went below and beyond everyone else on stage to insist that not only would he reinstitute waterboarding against America’s enemies, he would “bring back…
All Second Amendment enthusiasts are not the same. There are those who strongly believe in the right to bear arms for purposes of self-protection against criminals and for hunting and other sports usages. And then there are those who believe the ultimate purpose of the Second Amendment is to keep revolutionary violence on the table…
The day after Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney (as the immediate past nominee of a nongoverning party, he would have once been called the "titular head" of the GOP) laid out the Republican Establishment's game plan for stopping Donald Trump. If the other candidates can find some common ground, I believe we can nominate a person…
As political theater, the "summit" between Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan was first-rate. By that I don't refer to the street circus of protesters and counter-protesters and a thousand cameras. The "joint statement" the two men issued after a meeting in the presence of RNC chairman Reince Priebus was a quick espresso shot…