In 2028 half the population will be weary of Trump's excesses, and the other half will be concerned that a Dem president may do unto MAGA what MAGA has done to Dems. A winning strategy will champion reining in presidential power. Here are 5 issues that will galvanize broad support. The 6th will not.

The Trump administration makes a lot of noise about welfare fraud. RFKjr makes a lot of noise about autism. And yet, where these concerns intersect, we hear only crickets. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

Please explain: Folks say selling our most powerful computer chips to China will jeopardize our national security. Trump agrees and says Nvidia can sell the chips if it gives the US a kickback. The payment does nothing to enhance security. Why is this not just Trump extorting private business?

According to the NRA, gun violence will be solved by getting guns into the hands of "good guys." Total BS. www.wsj.com/us-news/homi...

We are not at war with anyone. We are killing criminal suspects and then sharing snuff films on social media. There is something fundamentally wrong with us.

A terrorist is "a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation . . . in the pursuit of political aims." MAGA calls drug smugglers, whose only goal is to make money, "narco terrorists." The label "criminal drug smuggler" will serve every purpose, except excuse extrajudicial executions.

Every time someone suggests that bombing an alleged drug boat is a war crime, he or she implicitly endorses the NONSENSICAL claim that we are at actual, literal, "war" with criminal smugglers. We are murdering suspects. That's all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Trump says that the charges against Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández arose from a "Biden horrible witch hunt." BUT, it was the Trump administration (first term) which first alleged that Hernández conspired with drug cartels. web.archive.org/web/20190803...

Before Trump pardoned Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, he indicted the man's brother for using his influence with the Honduran government to help people smuggling drugs into the US. The pardoned president was his brother's lever of influence. insightcrime.org/wp-content/u...

"We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to . . . kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct . . . rules of engagement, just . . . maximum lethality and authority for warfighters." I guess not murdering suspects is a stupid rule.

In this shocking expose, the Washington Post reveals that the people who feel good about the economy are those with the money. wapo.st/48r3OCv

People like to say that Trump is good at sensing what has angered Americans, such as uncontrolled immigration. Maybe so, but he is terrible at anticipating what WILL make Americans upset, such as indiscriminate deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

If you follow both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, you see WaPo getting more timid, reluctant to call BS on Trump, and the WSJ edging in the other direction. This article is just one example of the latter. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Here's an objectively true fact: If you kill enough people based upon confidential information, some of them will be innocent of any wrongdoing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

Dems should support those who felt they had to save hungry Americans held hostage by Trump and Johnson. THEY are the villains. Dems disagree about the shutdown. But is it so hard to agree on how to spin the event? On TV I see Dem leaders talk about things other than the GOP hostages. That's dumb.

Meet the Democrats' Willie Horton: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Two stories pain a picture. In the first, Trump argues that a Walmart ad proves he has conquered inflation. In the second, Walmart prices have risen 5.3%. The thing is, people don't need that second story. They know. stocks.apple.com/AUw1TMHdYSDq... stocks.apple.com/AN7wsCGSHSgS...

RFKjr sometimes speaks about the obesity epidemic in the US. Good for him. Unfortunately, he spends most of his time curating evidence to support debunked claims about autism. This article explores what can be done when a gov't is serious about health. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Bret Stephens makes some great points, but he also complains that Britain’s NHS "gobbles up roughly one third of government spending." But in the US, Americans spend $4.9T on health care, which would be 72% of the US $6.75T budget. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

This good Atlantic article would have been better had Nichols explained that toddlers are in gov't because Trump prizes loyalty (to him) above competence. Incompetence leads to bad governance. Thus, Trump's corruption leads a flailing economy and jeopardizes nat'l security, not just crass optics.

Maybe economic literacy for the masses is unrealistic. Even elite journalists still inaccurately refer to tariffs as "taxes on major U.S. trading partners," rather than "taxes on American importers." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Watch Maher treat a "documentary" about UFOs as though it proves something. Maher mocks anyone who, confronted with the inexplicable, invokes God. But, he sees video that hasn't been explained and he thinks it reasonable to invoke "aliens." It's the same thing.

The US economy depends upon population growth. Growth in the US (and Europe) will depend on immigration. Trump is doing everything he can to make the US unattractive to bright, hard-working, foreigners. You can do the math. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Every time I hear Mike Johnson talk about protestors I think about this scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrp...

Trump describes his meeting with Putin. Putin lavishes praise on Trump and says he wants to do business with the USA. From this Trump concludes "great progress" was made toward ending the war with Ukraine. Could it possibly be more clear that Trump is being played for a fool, and likes it?

The headline should be, "Alex Jones Loses Info War!" www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Maybe you can think of an action more heartless. Off the top of my head, I cannot. wapo.st/3W4mySQ

This editorial selectively pulls facts out of context. E.g., it says Goldman's prediction was way off. But what it said was, "high tariffs don’t normally cause recessions, but unpredictable tariffs . . . might." And the claim that tariffs have gov't awash in money? The deficit is UP.

It's a tough balance. Crack down on fraud and abuse and invariably some with legit claims will be caught in the crossfire. But the VA seems to be the one place where politicians would rather tolerate fraud (and abuse) than institute reasonable checks and balances. wapo.st/4qaMv0Q

The Cato Institute was founded by, among others, Charles Koch.

Even the Wall Street Journal warns that Trump's economic policies are not sustainable. www.wsj.com/economy/fede...

Just a little something for history nerds. letsmoseyon.com/noble-gas/

Noble Gas I previously promised to write about Arundel Castle. I have been bombarded with cards and letters, hounding me for that report. Obviously, I am lying. People want to hear a tourist describe his castle trip about as much as Bluto welcomed a 1960s beatnik to a toga party.

About 90 million people have immigrated to the US since the Civil War. Apparently they and their descendants are less "American" than the people who got here before them. I still do not understand the explanation for that. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I posted on social media an article about Trump saying on Truth Social that henceforth anyone who burns a flag will be sentenced to a year in prison. I noted that Trump must be delusional to think he can legislate. MAGA response: "But flag burning is very bad." The don't get it. They never will.

Dems (correctly) object that these are not normal times. This, they say, justifies a gov't shutdown. But their stated aim, to save health care subsidies, concerns a normal policy disagreement. It does not address the problem that makes these times abnormal, and dangerous. Political malpractice.

The cost to sit in the nose bleed section of the Super Bowl is about $1,000. Kristi Noem thinks it will be populated by undocumented aliens -- you know, folks who take poor-paying jobs so they can live under the radar. The country is being run by morons. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

The president apparently believes he can create criminal statutes by executive order. I would love one of his supporters to explain why this is not persuasive evidence that Trump has completely lost his mind. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

This is a really good article about how the Army has successfully met recruiting goals. Obviously, it is not consistent with claims made by Trump and Hegseth. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

She wrote on a private Facebook account, “If you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can’t be friends.” MAGA went nuts and she was fired. It isn't about Kirk. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Dems can deny that crime is a problem, which is not what real people think. They can deny that uniformed patrols deter crime, which is not what criminologists think. Or, they can make "tough on crime" their own issue, while lambasting Trump for budget cuts that make the job harder.

RFKjr urges that all sorts of problems have been caused by medicines being approved after too little study, but he wants to fast track other medicines? wapo.st/48tQFKA

Trump knows that Jair Bolsonaro is innocent, even after being convicted, and that James Comey, Letitia James, Lisa Cook, and Adam Schiff, are guilty, even though his own political appointees have said there is not enough evidence to indict. Imagine the time he has spent examining the evidence!

Trump insists that the VA US Attorney did not quit, but was fired for not indicting Trump's political foes. He is saying this out loud -- putting it in writing -- and MAGA does not care. wapo.st/3VwbgGK

Homan accepted $50K in cash, but there will be no indictment. What I want to know, and what everyone should want to know, is what happened to that cash? Most corrupt administration, ever. wapo.st/46xMPh8

Trump appointed Erik Siebert to be the US Attorney in Virginia. He has now fired the man for not "finding" sufficient evidence to indict one of Trump's foes. wapo.st/4guN6py

Republicans justify the firing of Monarez because after being fired she hired a lawyer who criticizes Trump. Got that? If you don't use a Trump-approved lawyer to sue Trump for wrongful termination, you must have deserved being fired all along. wapo.st/48hzE6o

After each political murder we insist the killer was inspired by the other side's rhetoric. This is strange. Nobody claims that Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer or John Wayne Gacy was egged on by others. They just saw people they wanted to kill, and killed them. Why is Tyler Robinson different?

The DOJ has quietly removed from its web site a 2024 study that contradicts the administration's claim that political violence is mostly a problem with the left. Everyone should download and share this study (see link). We can't let government control information. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Trump tells an Australian reporter that he will penalize Australia because the reporter is asking Trump uncomfortable questions. If Dems fail to recognize corruption as the most obvious theme for attack on this president, well that's on them. www.youtube.com/shorts/_XGZn...