Steve Schmidt

The people decide who governs them. They can withdraw their trust. They can strip a president of his puppet majority, and require him to face a Congress that remembers its obligations.

Any other ordinary American suspected of compromising national security would face an investigation. Meanwhile Jared Kushner is still conducting diplomacy on America’s behalf.

Public office has become a private asset for Trump. Citizens became customers seeking favor. People outside Trump's circle are told to celebrate their own exclusion as freedom.

The United States military must be liberated from Pete Hegseth’s reckless leadership.

A president promises to put his domestic opponents down permanently. That statement bears directly on the security of their rights and the survival of legitimate opposition.

The senators who confirmed Hegseth demonstrated a failure of the judgment required by their offices. They cannot say they didn’t know.

There is no person with any common sense who could walk through Dachau without thinking deeply about what is happening in America.

Picking Dr. Annie Andrews would give South Carolina a caring representative. Darline Graham would be another step to making the state a MAGA colony.

Darline Graham’s job in the Senate won't be to think or know anything. Her job is to shut the f*ck up and do whatever Stephen Miller tells her Trump wants her to do.

Nothing ahead is going to be new or mysterious. All of it will be deeply rooted in the worst malignancies of America’s past. Once widely repudiated, the buried furies are now re-emerged.

All of it—every bit of it—lays at the feet of Donald Trump, who is the architect, chief designer and project manager of American ruination and a global war coming into early bloom.

Any “journalist” who walked through the door this time will never wash the Trump stink off of themselves.

If a man can’t truthfully answer who won a presidential election, why should any American trust him to tell the truth about foreign adversaries, intelligence assessments, or threats to our national security?

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. spent his youth worrying that he would never possess a name of his own because his father’s shadow was so immense. History solved the problem.