What happened to cause the cancelation of the Trump rally at the University of Illinois for security reasons due to protests was a subset of a growing tendency of the left to shut down free speech on several fronts. Note … Continue reading →
[UPDATED further below] Trump has made a statement, and a lot of video has emerged, on the incident where Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is alleged to have grabbed Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields by the arm and thrown her to … Continue reading →
A good post by Ace. Ace’s blog is one of the few I follow regularly, and for a while I’ve noticed that Ace (who has for a long time been very angry at the GOP establishment) was amenable to Trump’s … Continue reading →
Trump’s campaign has been dogged by violence and accusations of violence. For example, a black protester was apparently sucker-punched at a Trump rally. And a Trump supporter was threatened at gunpoint at his home by a trio of men over … Continue reading →
I wanted to call attention to something I discussed in the comments section yesterday. In all the brouhaha about what Donald Trump said about “targeting” terrorists’ families, it hasn’t been much emphasized that he made a blatant factual error during … Continue reading →
Allahpundit says he didn’t: Trump finished very close to where he was projected to finish in all four elections. The reason he “underperformed,” winning just two of the four states up for grabs, is because Ted Cruz overperformed dramatically. And … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed how often conventional wisdom turns out to be wrong, or at least partly wrong. And yet it gets repeated and repeated and repeated; that’s what makes it conventional, I suppose. For example, the vitriol against the “establishment” GOP … Continue reading →
First Trump walked back his immigration reversal from the debate (I discussed the original positions and the reversal here), without explanation or apology. Yesterday he did the same with his statements during the debate on ordering the military to follow … Continue reading →
Many things happened during last night’s GOP debate. The level of debate discourse (can I use highfalutin words like “discourse” without being called a snobbishly out-of-touch member of the “elites”?) has fallen even further and we are now reduced to … Continue reading →
First of all, I don’t think Romney’s speech will do much either way. No one is going to decide one thing or another based on a speech that most people don’t even know about. Political junkies are into it, and … Continue reading →
“Things are negotiable.” Read the whole thing, including the comments, which add a missing sentence to the quote (“and they are going to go out”). Too much to summarize here, but my takeaway is the following: everything Trump says is … Continue reading →
This is a long but important piece by Megan McArdle on the “#NeverTrump” Republicans who are appalled at Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the party, and why they feel the way they do. [Hat tip: commenter “Tom.”]
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