Will Republicans learn from the midterms?
Trump promised they’d get tired of winning, but at this point they’re tired of losing
2022 midterms
Tuesday
MAGA Mean Girls: MTG and Boebert trade barbs
A catfight between Congress’s kookiest chicks
Voting with a vengeance
An act that I have perversely enjoyed for most of my life lost much of its luster a score of years ago
Monday
Kevin McCarthy’s party games
Republicans need a Christmas compromise if they want to avoid looking incapable of governing
Monday
One failed Republican autopsy was enough
The GOP got Mitt Romney’s loss wrong; why should they get 2022 right?
Monday
Kari Lake isn’t about to go away
Electoral defeat is by no means a political death knell for the Arizona firebrand
The Republican march on Rome
Will the Republicans fritter their wins away as Hannibal did after Cannae?
Thursday
The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump
How the former president became a hindrance for Republicans
Why the counting in Arizona is taking so long
Never credit to conspiracy what is adequately explained by incompetence
Joe Biden is the phantom of the Potomac
Even his own voters found him too inconsequential to blame
Wednesday
Trump’s announcement lights up Palm Beach
The scene around Mar-a-Lago was a circus — even the 2022 midterms seemed brighter
Rick Scott is right to challenge Mitch McConnell
Republicans want more from their Senate leaders
Tuesday
The midterm results are good for Republicans, if not great
If Democrats have deluded themselves into thinking they won last week, that’s a huge opportunity for the GOP
Monday
This election was no loss for Trump
Incumbents of all bents were returned to office, and the right still has all the energy
The Republican circular firing squad
After the midterms, the GOP gears up for yet another round of bloodletting
We can blame Mitch McConnell, too
His disastrous approach to spending money cost the GOP the Senate
Time for the GOP to call out Democrats’ primaries meddling
No more betting on extreme candidates — for either side
Saturday
Saying bye-bye to Beto
His style is fittingly modern, wholly self-focused and, accordingly, empty
Kevin McCarthy’s Faustian bargain
His fate is now in the hands of the conservative House Freedom Caucus
Friday
The time to move on from boomer Republicanism is now
Election Day showed that the winning recipe is a populist agenda paired with strong governance
