Author: Mike Littwin
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EDITORIAL: If Hick, Tancredo are actually up and running, give the credit to Trump
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As if to prove that desperate times do, in fact, call for desperate measures, I bring you the latest in desperate-sounding Colorado political news in the time of Donald Trump. First, in the shocking-if-it-were-actually-true news, Axios’ Mike Allen is reporting that John Hickenlooper is considering possibly running with John Kasich on a presidential unity ticket…
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Littwin: Don’t worry. It’s gonna get worse.
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We’re a little more than a week into the Donald Trump pre-presidency, and things are shaping up pretty much as expected. Lots of chaos. Lots of tweets. Lots of media-bashing. Lots of congratulatory phone calls to Trump from foreign leaders on, yes, apparently unsecured phone lines (and you said irony was dead). After losing the…
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Littwin: Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America
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Donald Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America. How else to describe the moment in which thousands of Republican delegates were deliriously cheering the notion that Trump, alone, can solve all our nation’s problems, including those that exist only in an alternate cable-TV-news universe? Trump, the gold-plated salesman, used his…
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Littwin: Cory Gardner opts out of Trump’s coronation
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I have to give Cory Gardner credit. When faced with a choice, he stood up – or actually ducked out, but still pretty much the same thing – for principle. OK, he wouldn’t say what the principle was exactly. And, being Cory Gardner, he didn’t feel the need to explain any of it to voters.…
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Littwin: Are we a nation in the midst of crisis — or just an election year?
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The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a nation in the midst of a presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton went to the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speech, to talk about race and…
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Littwin: How many shootings will it take for us to stop gun violence?
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There is much to be said in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, of yet another mass school killing, of yet 10 more gun deaths, of yet another emotional Obama speech, of yet more charges of politicizing a tragedy, of yet more unserious hearings on the intersection of mental illness and gun violence, of…
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Littwin: The Bernie Sanders pope praises and rebukes Congress
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Maybe the most telling moment of Pope Francis’s address to Congress came when he finally got to abortion. This would be, at last, the Republicans’ turn to glow in the papal light. Sure, the pope had come to chide them – if in the gentlest of tones – on immigration, on climate change, on poverty,…
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Littwin: Who knows how to deal with Donald Trump?
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Let’s all agree on this much after the opening night of the GOP debates: Donald Trump, the star of the show, did not disappoint. He was at his Donaldian best, or worst, depending on your world view. The thing about Trump is that his best and worst are exactly the same, so it’s hard to…
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Littwin: Cory Gardner and the GOP adopt abortion politics and a government-shutdown showdown … again
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OK, it wasn’t like we weren’t warned. But here was the U.S. Senate not only voting on whether to defund Planned Parenthood, but promising that this is just the beginning of a long fight, maybe one that would last even longer than Congress’s summer recess. As expected, Democrats successfully filibustered the bill, but the defunding…
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Littwin: The Donald’s madhouse candidacy will implode, right?
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I don’t know what date you’ve got in your when-will-the-Donald-finally-implode pool, but there’s a lot of smart money down on Debate Night, Aug. 6. As The New York Times put it, Thursday’s Debate Night is – in a word – huge. Huge for Trump, and maybe for the other guys, too. The thinking is that…
