Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation caused by the prosperity-crushing, speech-inhibiting, nanny state-building, carbon-obsessing, patriarchy-bashing, implicit bias-accusing, tokey-wokey, globalist, swamp-creature governing class— embodied by the Democrats’ 2016 nominee. On taking office, Trump created a diversion (tweets, border walls, tariffs) as a smokescreen to let them implement an agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and originalist judges.
His vote against witnesses was rooted in constitutional wisdom.
Karl Rove: His dealings with foreign officials and Congress look as suspect as Trump’s.
The ‘unitary executive’ implies both a strong presidency and clear limits on presidential powers.
Why not amend the Constitution so that any president who is impeached and acquitted is permitted to serve a third term? That would allow him to make up for the time lost advancing the agenda that voters elected him to enact. It would preserve impeachment for genuine offenses but discourage its use for disputed ones and for mere politics.
His son Hunter and Donald Trump aren’t dragging him down. He’s doing it himself.
Bobby Jindal: Lots of voters dislike the president but will be convinced to vote for him by seeing his opponents.
What did the House Intel Committee chairman know and when did he know it?
The impeachment case Trump was supposed to be ‘understandable.’ In two weeks, it has become incomprehensible.
Nixon only fell after Republicans defected. So far, Trump retains their strong support.
The phone call evidence isn’t enough to annul a presidential election.
Karl Rove: At the Democratic debate, candidates decried divisiveness while sowing division.
Her vision of ‘accountable capitalism’ would destroy savings built over a lifetime—and sink the economy.
Celebrating a businessman whose work in fossil fuels helped improve lives.
Alan Dershowitz: Be wary of denying individual rights based on predictions.
Ineffective and dishonest politicians have used racism as a shield from criticism for half a century.
Buttigieg has even less black support than the president he calls a racist.
Bobby Jindal: Both parties have lost their heads, but radical left-wing policies are worse than intemperate tweets.
Karl Rove: While he strikes a tone of unity, his opponents seek ideological purity.
Will no one speak up for Karen Pence other than her husband? In scarcely a week, the vice president’s wife has become a public face of hate. CNN’s John King suggests that what Mrs. Pence has done is so grievous maybe taxpayers shouldn’t fund her Secret Service security protection.
The country deserves an account of what Mr. Mueller knows, not more factual dribs and drabs in sentencing memos.
The Judge rightly called out the politics of “search and destroy.”
Russia’s longstanding ally Cuba has an even worse civil-liberties record. Yet when President Obama unconditionally reshaped U.S. policy to please Cuban dictator Raúl Castro, his party cheered. Mr. Obama even trotted off to a baseball game in Havana with the Cuban mob boss. Democrats cheered some more.
By going soft on Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump will paradoxically find it even harder to make deals with the Russian. Republicans and Democrats will unite in Congress, as they should, to limit his diplomatic running room.