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Wednesday
The Founding Fathers’ focus group on impeachment, 1787
‘ What if we really, really don’t like the president? What do you think about that as a reason for giving him the heave-ho? ’
Adam Schiff, ‘Lt. Col.’ Vindman and the impeachment ratings flop
The Democrats thought they could transform this tawdry revenge fantasy into reality. It isn’t working
Tuesday
Donald Trump 💓 impeachment
Why else would he flirt with it so?
Monday
The wages of Trump fixation
The strange case of a reborn Max Boot and the folly of impeachment
GOP West: could Republicans have an Arizona advantage?
Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be
The race to replace Pete King
Sporting a slick hairdo and slicker website, Mike LiPetri has a polish that many New York Republicans lack
Friday
Trump livens up the Marie Yovanovitch testimony
The Republican strategy was to argue that the hearing was a dud
Thursday
The Nikki Haley balancing act
The swamp may yet get to Haley but, so far, she’s positioned herself perfectly as the candidate to beat for the Republican nomination in 2024
The Democrats’ bad start to the impeachment hearings
To remove a president, they need evidence of serious malfeasance. Hearsay testimony about diplomatic process is not enough
Wednesday
A tale of two quids
The Democrats have decided to weaponize impeachment
Resistance reality TV has jumped the shark
Maybe the public have been told too many times that their president is about to be exposed as a villain
George Kent’s impeachment dress code
Impeachment has enough flannel already
The Overton Window inches right
Conservatives have spent too long trying to convince the left what they’re against, rather than declaring what they’re for
Tuesday
Trump’s economic nationalism is an effort to save capitalism
America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has
Confessions of a White House staffer: forgotten coffees and flustered phone calls
Things are not at all well in Conwayland
Friday
Is the Green party ‘rigging’ its presidential primary?
Some candidates allege the party apparatus is forcing them out of the race
Thursday
How to lose a re-election in Kentucky
Even a last-gasp visit from Trump couldn ’ t save Matt Bevin
Tuesday
Flash Gordon Sondland lights up the impeachment inquiry with updated testimony
The US ambassador to EU puts a kibosh on the notion Trump wasn’t avidly seeking a quid pro quo
