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A hometown columnist in deep-red Louisiana is showing no mercy to a Republican U.S. Representative who appears to be "the new leader in the contest for which U.S. Senate candidate in Louisiana’s Republican primary can show the most abject toadyism to President Donald Trump."“Sometimes Trump is right, but when he is wrong, he can be spectacularly wrong,” reports Baton Rouge Advocate columnist Quin Hillyer. “It takes a special level of toadyism to campaign as if it’s a virtue to support one of Trump’s most spectacularly wrong choices.U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) is currently b

Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people “not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump.”“He’s a simple man whose actions are … described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity,” said Williamson in the Dispatch. “He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idi

The world of MAGA has always been quick shout “lock her up” but Bulwark politics reporter Will Sommer says now that the community has turned upon itself over the Iran war and other issues individual members are now demanding MAGA members with opposing views get similar treatment.“This all started when there was sort of a rumor online that the justice department was going to investigate MAGA influencers for being paid, whether it's by Israel or Qatar or whatever you imagine,”

MS NOW assembled a devastating montage showing Republicans raging at high gas prices under former president Biden, but then contorting themselves to justify gas hikes after President Donald Trump’s arbitrary invasion and subsequent ceasefire deal with Iran.“Think of that. Would you like to have $1.84 a gallon instead of $4,” Trump told a crowd at an October 2024 rally in the middle of his campaign.“… But we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us in six months. … [Americans] are also

Since his appointment as Secretary of Defense at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth has posed himself as a relentless advocate of what he calls “warrior ethos,” in which the “woke” military has no place and “maximum lethality” will prevail. But according to over a dozen Pentagon officials who spoke with Rolling Stone, Hegseth’s penchant for violence is not only a “weird obsession,” but could lead the United States into another military quagmire. Among Hegseth’s core beliefs

President Donald Trump is promising mass pardons to White House staff, and has done so repeatedly, the Wall Street Journal reports.“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting, to laughs, the Journal reported, citing people familiar.“That radius,” the Journal added, “appears to be expanding as the president repeats the line. Another person who met with Trump earlier this year said the president quipped about pardoning anyone who had come within 10 feet.”Trump at one point said h

The White House is fighting back after a prominent House Democrat demanded that the Physician to the President test Donald Trump’s mental fitness, citing the president’s recent remarks.“At a time when our country is at war — especially when the war was initiated by the President without congressional declaration or consent — the American people must be able to trust that the Commander-in-Chief has the mental capacity to discharge the essential duties of his office,” Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin wrote to the President’s Physician, Captain Sean P. Barbabella, D.O., in a letter published by

On Friday, much of the news was focused on peace negotiations with Iran, with Vice President JD Vance heading to Pakistan to lead the U.S. delegation. But many Americans might not be aware of where Vance just left: an election in Hungary that, according to renowned historian Timothy Snyder, could herald the end of the MAGA movement. On Sunday, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections that will determine whether Viktor Orban — the country’s current prime minister, who has ruled with an increasingly iron fist since 2010 — will retain or be removed from power. A star of the international far-right,

A new lawsuit was filed on Friday by Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias and his group, Democracy Forward. The suit demands information from President Donald Trump's Justice Department, alleging that it is using election-deniers' claims to win judges' approval for information about the 2020 election. Thus far, a judge in Georgia has approved the FBI's request for copies of 2020 ballots and other information. Instead, the FBI took everything and made no copies of seized documents. The administration is now locked in a legal battle with Fulton County, Georgia. In

Republican pollster Frank Luntz is an analyst giant at numbers for Republicans running on an international scale, but what he’s currently predicting for President Donald Trump and Republicans is nothing good.“There's more than six months between now and Election Day. But there is no issue that will be more important to Republicans’ efforts to keep the House and the Senate than the economy in general, and affordability in particular. And this is not good news for the president at this moment,” Luntz told CNN anchor Omar Jimenez, while also popping on a warning that gas prices drop slow, no matter what happens at the Strait of Hormuz.Additionally, Luntz castigated Trump for attacking MAGA critics of the president’s war in Iran and other policies, color