This week a new Democratic majority arrived in the House of Representatives promising to change Washington. But along with it came a new Republican minority that is made much more in the image of President Donald Trump. The 2018 midterms may have shifted power in Washington, but they also deepened […] Read more »
Trump’s base did not elect him to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan
President Trump has faced bipartisan criticism over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria. Most notably, Jim Mattis resigned as secretary of defense in protest. Trump’s answer to the critiques? He tweeted: “I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places. … Just doing what I said I was […] Read more »
House Republicans came back from being written off before. They can again
Through much of 2018 and especially in the weeks following the midterm elections, many opinion writers and other political pundits enthusiastically declared the Republican Party dead or at least relegated to life support. The commentary was eerily reminiscent of the post-2006 declarations that the GOP was finished … over … […] Read more »
Republicans In Congress Have Been Very Loyal To Trump. Will It Last?
… Over the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the average GOP member overwhelmingly sided with Trump — 93 percent of the time in the House and 91 percent of the time in the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Trump score metric, which tracks how often each member of Congress votes […] Read more »
Go ahead, Mitt Romney: Utah Republicans are the most anti-Trump
Mitt Romney is the latest Republican to go after President Donald Trump. But there’s one major difference between Romney and most other Trump critics: Romney’s home state. Romney is in the perfect state, Utah, to launch his anti-Trump attacks from. He is far more likely to have the Republican base […] Read more »
Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action — even if China doesn’t do its part
At December’s U.N. conference on climate change (COP24), Trump administration officials defended fossil fuels and argued that economic growth was more important than a sustainable environment. The move reinforced the president’s 2017 decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement, which he has criticized as unfair for requiring […] Read more »