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What the Heck Were the Russians Doing on Social Media?
Back in November, the House Intelligence Committee released a selection of the ads Russia promoted on Facebook as part of its alleged attempt to meddle with the 2016 presidential election. What is strangest about the portfolio as a whole is not …
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The Unlearned Lessons of 2016
We’re eight months into the Trump presidency, and we can now draw one frustrating conclusion: Very few of the voices opposed to the president want to learn anything from their experience in 2016.
The media will not slow down and …
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It’s Time to Move On from the 2016 Election
If you keep up with the news, you might think that the unpleasant and unedifying 2016 presidential campaign is still going on.
President Donald Trump, up early, is sending out tweets coarsely attacking foreign leaders and American politicians — complete with …
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Hillary Says Voter Suppression Cost Her the Election
President Trump was understandably criticized last year when he tweeted out an accusation that he would have won the popular vote were it not for “three to five million illegal votes” being cast (a specific claim for which he provided …
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The latest Democratic autopsy indicates that Clinton lost primarily because large numbers of Obama voters defected to Trump. This is good news for our politics.
In their new book Shattered, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes described a Clinton campaign that …
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Shattered and the Irritating Consequences of Access Journalism
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt:
Shattered and the Irritating Consequences of Access Journalism
Post-election campaign books aren’t new. But Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, stands …
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An Iron Stomach, and Other Qualities
This is an age of much churning on the right, and this may particularly apply to conservative opinion journalism. I know a bit about this world. So does Ben Shapiro, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire. He used to work …
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Why Trump Won: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Change
With the Inauguration only a day away, Democrats and the media continue their political postmortem of the 2016 election, trying to understand how they missed what the American electorate was thinking. The latest attempt revolves around a Comey-Putin narrative to explain …
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The Real Reason Trump Won: Part 3 of 4
How did Donald Trump win the presidential election? In Part 1 of this four-part series, I showed how Trump performed poorly by the standards of challengers in post-incumbent elections of the past. (I define post-incumbent as elections with no incumbent on …
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It’s Time to End Taxpayer-Funded Campaigns
Public financing of presidential campaigns is on life support, and it’s time to pull the plug.
This week, Senator Jeff Flake issued his latest list of wasteful federal spending, which noted that $1 million in taxpayer money went to a …
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2016 Is Looking Like the New Normal
If you wanted to predict the results of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, you would have been wise to ignore the flurry of polls and campaign events. You would have paid no heed to the conventional wisdom …
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The Coming Swarm of Presidential Candidates
It’s easy to laugh at Congressman John Delaney of Maryland, the little-known House Democrat who announced, to the opposite of fanfare, that he intends to run for his party’s presidential nomination in 2020. FiveThirtyEight, a site for political junkies, …
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Hillary Blames America First
In one of the great scenes in American cinema, Jake Blues (John Belushi) of the Blues Brothers explains — at gunpoint — to his ex-fiancée (Carrie Fischer) why he left her at the altar.
“I ran out of gas! I had …
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Republicans Should Want The Russia 2016 Story Out In The Open
There’s any number of angles on President Trump’s firing of Jim Comey as FBI Director, many of which have been ably covered elsewhere on this site (see, for example, NR’s editorial, Andrew McCarthy on Comey’s failures, …
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Shattered and the Irritating Consequences of Access Journalism
Shattered and the Irritating Consequences of Access Journalism
Post-election campaign books aren’t new. But Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, stands out because the believable portrait it paints of …
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The Election Wasn’t Stolen by Moscow
No matter how the White House tries to spin the testimony of FBI director James Comey to the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, the damage can’t be denied. Though it merely confirmed what everyone already knew, Comey’s statement …
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‘We Must Think Big and Dream Even Bigger’
In all the media back and forth over President Trump’s inaugural speech, most have missed a central point: His address was infused with a wonderful sense of optimism.
As an old Reagan guy, I have learned through the years …
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The Real Reason Trump Won: Part 4 of 4
How did Donald Trump win the presidential election? In Part 1 of this four-part series, I showed how Trump had performed historically poorly by the standards of challengers in post-incumbent elections (i.e., elections with no incumbent on the ballot following …
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The Real Reason Trump Won: Part 2 of 4
In Part 1 of this four-part series on Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, I examined the history of post-incumbent elections: elections following the reelection of an incumbent president, in particular the true post-incumbent elections where no incumbent was on …
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Missing from the Intelligence Report: The Word ‘Podesta’
There is a word missing from the non-classified report issued Friday, in which three intelligence agencies assess “Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election.” The FBI, CIA, and NSA elide any mention of#…#“Podesta.”
Seems like a pretty …
