Glenn Youngkin is a test case for Republicans nationally. The GOP candidate for Governor in Virginia is attempting to portray himself as a Trump-lite candidate, Trump without the insane tweets and the Mexican rapist and injectable disinfectant nonsense. Youngkin is certainly a more polished candidate and without all the sexual assault baggage. However, as his contest with former Governor Terry McAuliffe approaches the finish line, and behind by about 5% in recent polls, Young

I was fortunate enough to attend the first Women's March in Washington after the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017. My wife Brooke and I joined hundreds of thousands of men and women who gathered to protest the election of a man wholly unfit for office. We were joined by millions of individuals in cities across the country and around the globe. It was one of the largest protests since the Vietnam War and Civil Rights era. Many of those same individuals were instrumental in

I'm old enough to remember a time when the Republican Party and its voting base wasn't comprised of raving maniacs, bigots, and conspiracy theorists. I often remind my classes that long before Donald Trump roused the populist masses against immigrants, science, and international trade, the GOP had produced some of the nation's finest leaders like Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and George H. W. Bush, to name but a few. The Americans who put these individuals in office s

The totally unnecessary election audit In Arizona's Maricopa County, financed by a cornucopia of right-wing, Trump-aligned organizations, has found that Joe Biden actually won by a slightly greater margin than official tallies indicated. Axios: "In an odd coda to the 2020 election, private contractors conducting a GOP-commissioned recount in Arizona confirmed President Biden’s win in Maricopa County." Washington Post: “After nearly six months and almost $6 million — most of i

Watching Congress debate whether to raise the debt ceiling is both hilarious and maddening. The theory behind its creation was to provide Congress with a reminder that its income should roughly equal the amount it spends so that it doesn't have to take on additional debt. In practice, however, it does nothing to restrain the growth of government debt and leads to weeks of laughable demagoguery about government spending and taxes. Years of experience tells us that it has no im

On Tuesday, in California's recall election, right-wing talk radio host, Larry Elder, received more votes than the dozens of other Republican candidates combined. And he drew more than five times as many votes as his nearest mainstream Republican rival, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. In the end, Gov. Gavin Newsom trounced the recall effort, but the results among his Republican rivals proves a lot about where the GOP is headed, even in a progressive state like Califor