Jackie Calmes is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Times in 2017 as White House editor, she worked at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, covering the White House, Congress and national politics. She served as the chief political correspondent and chief economic correspondent at each paper. In 2004, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. Calmes began her career in Texas covering state politics and moved to Washington in 1984 to work for Congressional Quarterly. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She is the author of “Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court.”
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Republicans are quaking ahead of the midterms as Trump says or does something each day to keep alive the disgust so many Americans share for him.
As Republicans object to this lawless administration, they should keep their focus on holding the boss accountable.
He has already devastated the credibility of American law enforcement and the military, not to mention our nation’s standing around the world.
The Declaration of Independence faulted the king for sending ‘swarms of Officers to harrass our people’ and protecting the agents ‘from punishment for any Murders which they should commit.’ Sound familiar?
The president who promised domestic solutions has instead inserted the U.S. into many other nations’ conflicts, most recently Venezuela’s. Why?
To an extent that’s shocked even critics long convinced of his sociopathic narcissism, the president has fashioned a government that’s of Trump, by Trump and for Trump.
There is no ‘war on Christmas,’ so our season’s greetings are not political statements. Unless you want them to be.
Damning candor from Trump’s chief of staff, along with the president’s own embarrassing rant against Rob Reiner, show the crumbling of this administration.
Trump announced that he would ‘be involved’ in deciding which company is allowed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. The Supreme Court signaled an end to regulatory agencies’ independence.
People who know and enforce the law would have been inconvenient during the president’s undeclared war in the Pacific and the Caribbean.