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Jonathan Last: “First, he watched another potential Republican challenger implode. Glenn Youngkin was the last, best hope for Republican donors wishing that someone could parachute into the race at double-digits and take on Trump. Floppy-hair Glenn McVest is now cooked. He staked his national viab

Jonathan Last: “There is no magic bullet here, no one who’s a slam dunk to be better than Biden. And because none of them is a known quantity, it’s entirely possible that on the big stage they’d turn out to be worse than Biden.”“At least with Biden, there’s a track record. With the

Eric and Eliot welcome Leland Miller, a non-resident senior fellow at the Asia Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security and co-founder & CEO of China Beige Book International. Lee explains how China Beige Book acquires data on the PRC economy as well as the…

Jonathan Last: "Last week we talked about how the two political parties (currently) differ in their institutional responses to corruption. Republican institutions tend to rally around their bad actors. Democratic institutions tend toward trying to police their bad actors. Not always and not perfectl

Journalism's in-house critics take a bold stance against attempting journalism, because of Trump.

Journalism's in-house critics take a bold stance against attempting journalism, because of Trump.

Fellow never-Trump Republican Brad Thor joins Tim this Sunday to talk his new thriller novel, “Dead Fall.” They also discuss the decline of the GOP away from freedom and towards populism, the horror that would be a a second Trump presidency, and President Biden’s handling of the crisis in Ukraine.

Jonathan Last: "Trump owns some non-trivial percentage of Republican voters. Maybe it’s 25 percent; maybe it’s 35 percent; maybe it’s 45 percent. These are people who would follow him if he were to decamp from the GOP.""This isn’t even an open secret: Republicans have been talking about

Jonathan Last: "Looking at the Republican field today, it is startling how significantly Trump has changed most of the Good Republicans.""Tim Scott has pledged to fire the FBI director on the first day of his presidency, shattering the design of the agency. FBI directors are appointed to 10-year

Kori Schake, head of defense and foreign policy studies at AEI, shares her views on China, Ukraine, and Tuberville’s stunt. The panel then debates whether Biden should, even now, step aside. Plus, in our Highlights and Lowlights segment, Bill sings the praises of Antony Blinken’s performance as secretary of state,…