David Karol
Govt & Politics prof, UMD.
Billy Wilder fan. Has "Someone is wrong on the internet!" tendencies.
Author: Red, Green and Blue & Party Position Change in American Politics. Co-author: The Party Decides. No replies to anons.
gvpt.umd.edu/faculty
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a corrupt man in possession of a high office must be in want of a jet.
- Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Trump ran on protecting Social Security, Medicare, and even Medicaid. He moved away from the national ban on abortion promised in GOP platforms since 1980. These were not plays to the base and not what prior Republicans like Bush and Ryan said.
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- As far as I can see, no story on Trump's Qatari plane on Fox. Some things are hard to spin.
- On X MTG said she could've won but won't run because the Senate is bad. One claim: "McConnell isn’t Senate Leader anymore, but he chairs the powerful Rules Committee and still controls what makes it to the floor." Can she not know the Senate Rules Committee ISN'T a gatekeeper like the House one? 1)
- The global anti-incumbent party wave is consistently underplayed. No solid reason to think messaging or even the messenger was as important as that. But we get all these recriminations b/c journalists have a professional bias towards believing all the machinations and speeches they cover are key. 1)
- The last Justice who broke from his party in a serious way, not just occasionally. He was picked after Bork's nomination failed because he lacked an incriminating "paper trail". He was almost unopposed, unimaginable today. He retired "young" (69), letting Obama name his replacement.1)
- With the yanking of the original Surgeon-General nominee yesterday, this move keeps the number of Fox personalities nominated constant. Fox truly is the farm team for this Admin.
- It's official!
- Correcting this too hasty post! At the very least, reports differ and he may in fact be a Sox fan.
- I mean, he's from the South Side, but he's a Cubs fan!
- I posted this as a joke, but now ABC suggests she's a real possibility! She really was D.A. of Westchester County, before becoming a judge and was considered a moderate Republican back in the day, like Giuliani.
- Judge Jeanine actually was a District Attorney, but probably would consider this a demotion from Fox personality.
- This is not quite right. While Trump's tariffs are being challenged in court, executive agreements with other countries -not approved by the Senate- are nothing new. Obama's Iran deal was called a "political commitment", not even an executive agreement.
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- Schumer's path to the Senate leadership was building relationships while being a successful and appreciated Democratic Campaign Committee Chair in two successive cycles.
