Mort Kondracke

Morton Kondracke is a retired Washington, DC, journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, The New Republic, McLaughlin Group, FoxNews Special Report, Roll Call, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal) now living on Bainbridge Island. He continues to write regularly for (besides PostAlley) RealClearpolitics.com, mainly to advance the cause of political reform.

A Busy Busy Week in Trump Outrages

He certainly continues to act like a king—and an increasingly despotic and corrupt one.

Trump Outrage Watch: Amid Sinking Polls, Going to War Against American Cities

You do not need to be paranoid to imagine how Trump could snuff out American democracy.

Trump Outrage Watch: Shut it All Down

Topic A now is the government shutdown, with threatened mass firings of federal workers, shut-downs of all but essential federal services, worries about how long it will last and how much damage it will do to the US economy—and which party will suffer politically from the shutdown.

Trump Outrages: A Well-documented History of Violence Rhetoric

Which US politician has advocated, condoned or incited violence more than any other? Donald Trump.

Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

What Donald Trump and MAGA are doing to America is matched by what he and Robert Kennedy Jr. are doing with MAHA. Both are disasters for the country.

A Busy Week in Trump Outrages

Everything, everywhere, all at once. Any one of this week's outrages would be major scandal in other administrations. Collectively, they're the wholesale dismantling of norms that have prevailed for centuries.

Trump Outrage Watch: Rigging Statistics, Climate Roulette, and DC as a Police State

Serious as tampering with economic data is, perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in various environmental agencies’ science offices and their ability to keep track of, model and report climate change data

Trump Outrage Watch: Too Much Greatness Edition

Making the World Great Again During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump boasted that Russia’s war on Ukraine would never have occurred had he been in office and that he could...

This Week’s Trump Outrages, Epstein Edition

Trump and his aides are doing their best to divert attention from Epstein—notably by declaring that Barack Obama is guilty of treason.

What D’s Should Do: Move to the Center

The polling message is that Democrats are out of touch with most voters and need to move to the mainstream center. That's where Third Way is.

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