Author: Isaac Schorr

A decade into the Trump era, Democrats are, to nearly everyone’s great amusement, still searching for their own version of the cultural icon-turned-two-term president. Well, not all Democrats. Some believe they have at long last found her. The Atlantic headlined its recent profile of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) “A Democrat for the Trump Era.” It…

Almost everyone has a theory to explain Zohran Mamdani’s shocking upset victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last month.  Some credit the success of the 33-year-old socialist’s insurgent campaign to the scandal-scarred Cuomo’s hapless one.  “He ran, arguably, the worst front-runner campaign in New York history,” New York…

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has committed a Kinsley gaffe, and it may well cost him the White House. Recently, Newsom has undergone cosmetic surgery for his brand. Newsom spent years presenting himself as one of the faces of the progressive movement, but President Donald Trump’s dispatching of fellow Golden State liberal Kamala Harris persuaded Newsom…

The Empire Strikes Back famously features a string of Imperial officers being summarily executed by Darth Vader as their horrified successors look on with concern. The lesson? Sometimes, one climbs the ladder only to fall from a greater height. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), the man who has succeeded Mitch McConnell as the Republicans’…