Author: W. James Antle III

What’s old is new again. President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, and his new administration is already acting with a vigor that eluded former President Joe Biden for most of his forgettable term. Not since Grover Cleveland, in a dramatically different political and media environment than that which prevails today, have we…

Former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton sat politely as President Donald Trump excoriated their failures and what he described as the “betrayals” of the political class in his second inaugural address. “We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to…

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office for a second time, the mood is distinctly different than in 2017. Democrats are moving out of Resistance mode ahead of Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration despite, or perhaps because, fascism and Hitler were such a big part of their closing argument in last year’s presidential campaign. The hair-on-fire approach…

When Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, it was inevitable that President Joe Biden would regret his decision to step down from the top of the Democratic ticket. Biden associates now say that the outgoing president regrets dropping out of the race and believes he could have beaten President-elect Donald Trump. Unless…

The tepid Senate Republican response to some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees has MAGA loyalists talking about primary challenges. One pro-Trump social media influencer wrote a viral post about Arizona Republican Kari Lake challenging Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) over the latter’s seeming reluctance to support Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense. Lake “was born…

Pete Hegseth is fighting for his future as the next secretary of defense, but his success or failure could have implications for others nominated by President-elect Donald Trump. Hegseth is the latest Trump pick to face an uncertain future in a Republican-controlled Senate after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, withdrew from consideration to…

Top officials in Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign are protesting a media “double standard” as they try to explain to liberal audiences what went wrong. On the liberal podcast Pod Save America, multiple Harris lieutenants complain that Harris was pilloried for her light media schedule while President-elect Donald Trump largely eschewed traditional media.…

The leaders of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are starting to acknowledge that the fundamentals of the 2024 race for the White House favored President-elect Donald Trump all along. Joy and hope were no match for dissatisfaction with the economy, the direction of the country, and incumbent parties across the globe, dooming the Democrats earlier…

President-elect Donald Trump managed to thread the needle on abortion as he won a second term, though the challenge of governing lies ahead. Trump took credit for appointing most of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insulate his campaign and the Republican Party from the…

President-elect Donald Trump brought his populist supporters into the Republican Party and now would like to include them in his administration, but not everyone in the GOP is happy about it. The MAGA movement contains some people who are fervent Republicans but might deviate from what was the party line as recently as the George…