insurrection

“Attempted murder,” now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for “attempted chemistry?”

By Dan Nexon

On May 11, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over...

republicans

Truth, Commissions, and Republican Brokeness

By Dan Nexon

On May 19, 2021

Senate Republicans appear poised to block a bipartisan investigation of the first non-peaceful transfer of executive power in modern American history. McConnell has found some procedural objections to hide behind,.

impeachment

Trumpism and the Discourse of Impeachment

By Dan Nexon

On February 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the.

Would a coup by any other name smell so wrong?

By Dan Nexon

In 2020 Election , Trump

On January 9, 2021

Paul Musgrave argues that the effort to prevent Congress from declaring Biden the next president was, in fact, a coup. As I write this a few hours later, rioters incited by President Donald Trump have stormed the Capitol building. Both the House and the Senate...