Ben Domenech is a US editor-at-large of The Spectator and a Fox News contributor.
The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s the context we’re currently in a dozen days before the second inaugural. Last time around, it was only after the combination hits of the Women’s March and the manufactured Russiagate freakout that we saw elected
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What does the president’s cabinet mean for America abroad?
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The bungled Continuing Resolution has left Republican House leadership scrambling
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Working with Trump instead of engaging in knee-jerk opposition might get them more
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Two young men took action in New York because they claimed to value the lives of others. But only one did so out of a direct threat of violence
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Today, the citizens of New York can be happy that Alvin Bragg and his allies failed
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It’s the dull business of bureaucracy that will almost certainly determine whether this second Trump administration is more successful than his first
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It’s a blanket pardon covering a decade of crimes regarding taxes, bribery, sex, drugs and more
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Freddy Gray is joined by Ben Domenech, editor-at-large of Spectator World to discuss a strange video of Kamala Harris released by the official Democratic party account, Trump’s counter-signalling appointments and the realignment of the Republican party.
In Washington, you don’t name anyone disruptive or potentially transformative to your administration without dealing with flack from the Senate. They like things straightforward, predictable, vetted, established and preplanned — and Donald Trump’s cabinet of outsiders is anything but. The Brett Kavanaugh nomination was widely considered to be dead even among his most emphatic supporters (reportedly even the
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It turns out that just employing the enemy of your enemy isn’t enough
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Ten years in an America enslaved to race recrimination
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He is appointing communicators, not administrators
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The South Dakotan is a longtime member of the Republican establishment
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He is bringing in qualified grown-ups, not just listening to whoever will be his biggest fanboy in the moment
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A new era and new challenges
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The sheer number of outside individuals, movements and institutions involved in the GOP’s sweeping night is astounding
This is a grim night so far, in terms of every piece of data that we have about how Kamala Harris is performing. Of the four different possible situations, one was obviously a big win for Harris, one was a small win for Harris, one was a small win for Trump, and one was a
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What a show it’s been
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Can we trust you to count, America?
