A collection of 80 posts
Four deaths, two critical injuries, and three hairbreadth escapes. Not the best odds in a field of 46 presidents, so when one dodges a bullet, we’ve all been lucky.
Every time there is a shooting, everybody turns to their narrative. We all want our stories to be vindicated, and we are perplexed if the expected pattern does not emerge.
In the wake of the shooting, we should neither demonise nor sanctify Trump, but assess him by normal political standards.
The failure of the Secret Service to provide adequate protection to a standard-bearer for one of the major parties is the latest example of American breakdown.
In trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks inadvertently provided Trump with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have made him a cult icon.
The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.
No one is beyond reach—unless everyone around them refuses to reach out.
Former Trump activist Rich Logis explains why he renounced his former MAGA beliefs—and how he’s helping others exit the movement.
In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects.
Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses.
A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
David Frum talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. His new book is Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy.
Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay about his new book, How to Beat Trump. He thinks it’s going to be very difficult.
While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.