The ruthless dispatch of the former president was less Brutus and Cassius and more Jack Kevorkian – not a hail of knives in the back but a soft word in the ear, a gentle squeeze on the syringe, and farewell, my lovely.
Those looking to curb ‘misinformation’ should respect the right to say offensive and nonsensical things, like X’s boss.
The Trump we’ve seen in the last few weeks is the Trump who lost the presidency in 2020, the House in 2018 and the Senate in the Georgia runoff election in 2021. Houston, we have a problem.
The Democrat’s vice-presidential candidate was quick to embrace woke causes but the Minnesota governor has overseen rising crime rates and a declining economy.
Democrats stuck with Joe Biden because they thought his vice president was even weaker. Can the Democrats and a collaborative media pull off their recasting of Kamala Harris?
Pretending Joe Biden’s farewell was an act of self-abnegation is almost as big a lie as the claim that he was completely up to the job for another four years.
Rapturous Republicans are capitalising on a realignment of US politics, and Democrats have only themselves to blame.
In choosing JD Vance over other, arguably more qualified or more electorally appealing candidates, Donald Trump has written what he hopes will be his political legacy.
Don’t be tempted to loathe your opponents, or to take Donald Trump’s survival as a message from God.
Despite vocal opponents, it seems US president is in for the long haul, trashing his original aim of saving the country from Trump.
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