May 5, 2016
Five Reasons Why I Support Donald Trump and Think Other Republicans Should Too
(Originally appeared in the WSJ) Now that John Kasich has dropped out, it has become a pretty easy choice to support Donald Trump in November. Many friends inside and outside the Beltway disagree with my conclusion. Some of them might...
May 4, 2016
The Change Candidate
It’s change vs. the status quo. And change is winning. It won last night in the Republican primary in Indiana. Ted Cruz offered the same conservative strategies, tactics, vision, principles that has dominated the Washington conversation since 2010. Slash government. ...
May 3, 2016
Conservative Thinkers, Stop Being Stupid About Trump
(This originally appeared in The Hill) The conservative intelligentsia (not necessarily a contradiction in terms) is being stupid about Donald Trump. And in the process, they are revealing their biases against democracy and the will of the people. We...
April 28, 2016
Tale of the Tape
So it looks increasingly clear that it’s going to be Trump vs. Clinton. How do they match up? According to the Huffington Post, in such a matchup, Clinton leads 45% to 38%, with the rest either undecided or voting for...
April 27, 2016
This is all Ted Cruz’s Fault
So, we are going to nominate Donald Trump at the GOP Convention in Cleveland over the summer and he is going to start about 20 points down from Hillary Clinton. Trump might be able to rebrand himself (after all, branding...
April 26, 2016
Both the Republic and the Republicans Will Survive Trump
If you ask somebody who might vote regularly but otherwise has a day-job, the prospect of a Trump Presidency is usually greeted with a shrug of the shoulders: Couldn’t get any worse, they seem to say. But if you ask...