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Opinion: Trump being hoisted on ‘vibe’ petard

Never has the GOP been more unified, and Donald Trump deserves all the credit. The issue uniting pundits, editorial boards, virtually all Republican politicians, GOP consultants, MAGA warriors and rallygoers: the need for Trump to lay aside personal gripes and grievances and to stick to the ...

Opinion: A campaign fueled by excitement, not grievance

As the Harris-Walz team soars (polls are already showing Harris taking the lead), Trump is cracking up. His ego can’t take it. He is freaking out that his opponent — a Black woman — has more energy and momentum behind her than he has. Last Thursday, after 10 days of Harris in the ...

Opinion: The ‘stolen valor’ fight is intense and misplaced

While the saying may be true that candidates for vice president usually don’t make much of a difference in the ultimate success of presidential candidates, they do give us plenty to argue about. That’s particularly true of the current contenders. Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to ...

Opinion: Will Walz keep Nebraska’s blue dot blue?

The 2024 presidential election, we are told, will be decided in a handful of battleground states. The race is so tight that a single Electoral College vote could determine the outcome. And that explains the great focus on Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, which often votes Democrat but ...

Opinion: 1st, beat Trump; 2nd, reconciliation

“When you come to a fork in the road,” legendary political scientist Yogi Berra famously observed, “take it.” There is no mistaking that this November’s presidential election will mark as consequential a fork in the road as America has confronted since the election of 1860, and we ...

Opinion: Kamala Harris’ path to ‘greatness’ not the usual one

How did Kamala Harris become so good at this? How does a sub-par vice president get transformed nearly instantaneously into a joyful performer who can do no wrong? It’s easy. As the 20th century writer and strategist James Burnham put it, “Where there is no alternative, there is no ...