“Any strategist will acknowledge a problem when a political playbook grows yellow and weathered. Fortunately for the GOP, the 21st century discovery of transgender people in our midst provides for newly Xeroxed strategies on crisp, white paper.

DeSantis has made petulance in a pandemic one of his defining qualities. He’s decided that fighting Anthony Fauci is more important than fighting the disease. Talk about theater.

His guy – Donald Trump, the man for whom Fox News’ propaganda brigade has cast its lot for five devoted years – owns Tucker. He is, in the words of George Will, one of Trump’s “poodles.”

“Denazification and demilitarization.” neighbor nation. Nazism – those frightened masses cramming the exits to Poland. Militarization – those hunting rifles dusted off to confront invading tanks.

When he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. was as serious about patience as he was about persistence.

I’m not going to blame Associated Press for the clear typo in a recent story about Republican aversion to science. AP does incredible work. As the story reported, “Republicans’ faith in science is falling as Democrats rely on it even more.”

Click on the video to activate live chat.     Leaving out Joe’s No. 1 accomplishment             It’s odd. I just watched one of those dreary year-anniversary treatments of the Joe Biden presidency, and it left out his most important achievement.             In newsroom talk, that’s called “burying the lede.” […]

We speak here not of the ‘50s-‘60s, Commie kind. We speak but of the ‘22 Republican kind – the 12 GOP-controlled states prepared to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court gives the word.

Biden’s partner at each podium should be a ballot box – a mail-in ballot drop box, to be exact – a vessel of convenience for voters, a symbol of leaders who value them.