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Mitt Romney
March 1, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Worst Performance of Trump’s Presidency Now Belongs to the Press Corps
The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful.
January 10, 2017
Brian Beutler
Obamacare Repeal Is Going Very Poorly
Republicans said the 2012 election was their last chance to repeal health care reform. They were right.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Mitt Romney got played.
December 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Forever Trump: How the GOP Capitulated to a Monster
Most of Trump's fiercest foes in the Republican Party have backed down, giving Trump full rein to remake the party in his image.
December 6, 2016
Alex Shephard, Laura Reston
Trump’s Political Lesson: Humiliate, or Be Humiliated
Humiliation was the driving force of a presidential election in which the rules of decorum were laid to waste.
November 30, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Mitt Romney sounded the death knell for #NeverTrump in the most Mitt Romney way possible.
November 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
By Tapping Romney, Trump Can Have His Cake and Eat It Too
A delicious way to get the two things the president-elect has always wanted most: revenge and elite approval.
November 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump is running his transition like it’s a game show.
October 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
Does Trump think he can win Pennsylvania? (And Wisconsin and Michigan and Colorado and Nevada and Virginia?)
October 19, 2016
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump will need an awful lot of “missing” white voters to save him now.
October 2, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The Trump tax story is a big, beautiful gift for Hillary Clinton.
September 27, 2016
Brian Beutler
The First Debate Proved What We Knew: Trump Is a Monster
Why the Clinton-Trump clashes won't fundamentally change the nature of the 2016 election.
September 26, 2016
Jeet Heer
What Hillary Can Learn From Obama’s Disastrous First Debate Against Mitt Romney
September 26, 2016
Brian Beutler
Playing the Expectations Game With Trump Is Irresponsible Journalism
September 12, 2016
Brian Beutler
Hillary Clinton’s gaffe was so bad it made Mike Pence refuse to call David Duke “deplorable.”
September 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Corey Lewandowski just unintentionally explained why Trump is in trouble.
August 26, 2016
Eric Kleefeld
Yet again, the Republican dream of winning over Jewish voters has been crushed.
August 25, 2016
Primary Concerns
Primary Concerns Episode 26: Can the GOP Avoid Another Trump
August 22, 2016
Brian Beutler
The rot runs much deeper than most Republicans are willing to admit.
August 22, 2016
Brian Beutler
Why “Obama’s Katrina” Never Sticks But Won’t Die
A conservative meme resurfaces after the deadly flooding in Baton Rouge.