Many of The Atlantic’s articles now produce more eye rolls and sighs than any thoughtful cultural debates.
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How do you know when you are not just in a crisis, but the crisis? A period so long, lurching from moment to moment, that it transcends a single event and becomes the event itself. In other words, the Long Crisis.
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The Monthly Memo is changing! Read more here about what you can expect in the near future.
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The office of the President of the United States is unique for a number of reasons, not least of which is the way the president is elected. But in this piece, I wanted to write about the tension behind the office that has come into focus over the course of time.
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I find myself in a very odd situation. During the Republican primaries I was a #NeverTrump conservative. I never voted for him, I never advocated for him, and I was frustrated when the party decided time and time again to keep him on the ticket. To a large extent I'm in that same position today -- except now I find myself having to defend the president from the hyperventilating coastal media and politicians calling for his impeachment and removal from office.
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In this month's article for The Federalist I argue that the Democratic Party is facing extinction. Hillary Clinton's upset loss in November finally put the nail in the coffin of the "demographic destiny" theory. Her defeat also threw into contrast the deficiencies of the Democratic coalition assembled for President Obama's two electoral victories and demonstrated that the fissures in the party run deeper than we assumed pre-election day.
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