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.
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Trump Outrages: Sycophants and Grifters and Boors, Oh My!

Now that he’s been nominated as Trump’s Attorney General, Todd Blanche deserves more attention than he’s had, which should lead to the defeat of his nomination.
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Outrage Watch: Rampant Corruption Edition

Democrats have been using the ‘c” word for most of Trump’s second term, occasionally (correctly) calling it “blatant.” But something important changed last week with Trump’s Justice Department’s creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.
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Supreme Disgust: Nation’s Highest Court Guts What Remained of The Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights decision lowered the public’s respect for the Court to a record 61% disapproval, according to Gallup and the Marquette Law School.
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Trump Outrages: Report from Crazytown — Co-opting the Media, and Riding Pentagon Pete

Trump’s Project 2025 (which he denied any knowledge of in 2024) was modeled on Viktor Orban’s 16-year authoritarian rule in Hungary. The good news is that Orban was just defeated in a landslide.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Iran Edition — TACO Tuesday (and Wednesday) (and Thursday)…

Trump really does not want the war to continue because of the economic and political pain the US and he would suffer.
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Trump Outrages: Blowing Up Stuff

After years of demeaning and offending allies—to the point of their distancing from the US—Trump tried to enlist them to risk the lives of their seamen by patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump Outrages: Rogue Iran War Edition

One critic said the Trump administration was caught up in “strategic incoherence” and another said it was “jazz improvisation.”
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Trump Outrage Watch: The “Peace President” Goes to War and Threatens Elections

Donald Trump used to say he wanted to be a “peace president” who specifically would not engage in “regime change” and had ambitions of winning the Nobel Peace Prize....
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Trump Outrage Watch: The Toxic Epstein Scandal and a Security Breach

“The world has entered a period of wrecking ball politics. Sweeping destruction—rather than careful reforms and policy corrections—is the order of the day.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Election Threats Edition

n proposing to federalize elections, Trump is exhibiting his customary ignorance (or defiance) of the US Constitution, which gives states and Congress power to manage elections—and the Executive Branch, no power whatsoever.
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