Matthew Continetti
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Biden’s Self-Defeating Ukraine Strategy
A true statesman would recognize that Zelensky is the better judge of Ukraine’s requirements and move heaven and earth to satisfy them so that the war ends. → Read More
Pete Buttigieg Is Not Ready for Prime Time
The East Palestine train wreck highlighted a dilemma for Buttigieg’s party: The Democrats are led by an 80-year-old president with no clear successor. → Read More
2024 Is Make or Break for the Senate GOP
The candidates must appeal to the grassroots and to independents, and understand that Americans want commonsense answers for pressing economic and social problems. → Read More
The Missing GOP Agenda
Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not mince words in her response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Arkansas governor, just weeks into her term, blamed President Biden for appeasing the radical Left. She gave a preview of what the GOP presidential nominee will say next year. → Read More
How Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back
Both parties' failure to learn from history has made it possible not only for Trump to win the GOP nomination for the third time, but to return to the White House. → Read More
How Donald Trump's 2024 Campaign Bounced Back
Donald Trump spent the final months of 2022 reeling from electoral setbacks and media disasters. Many of his high-profile endorsements in the midterm elections flopped. His attacks on popular GOP governors in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia did little damage to their reputations. His 2024 campaign launch was a snooze. His infamous and inexcusable dinner at Mar-a-Lago with high-profile… → Read More
The GOP Future Is Florida
Republicans and conservatives dismayed at the happenings on Capitol Hill may want to turn their gaze southward. On January 3, as the race for speaker of the House went to multiple ballots for the first time in a century, Ron DeSantis began his second term as governor of Florida. As I watched the dual proceedings on a split screen, there was no doubt that the Floridians were having a lot more fun… → Read More
Let’s Beat Iran — Not Just at Soccer
The nuke-pursuing mullahs richly deserve an actual defeat. → Read More
Understanding the Underwhelming GOP Performance
A cloud hangs over Republicans. The election did not go as well as they thought. They expected the results nationwide to resemble the results in Florida, where Republicans walloped Democrats. Didn’t happen. Florida now seems to be as exceptional politically as it is culturally. → Read More
The Policies Responsible for the Coming Democratic Disaster
Voters are about to teach progressive Democrats a lesson: Crime doesn’t pay. → Read More
Here Come the Investigations
Let’s say the GOP wins control of Congress on November 8. What will 2023 look like? → Read More
Mike Pence and the Republican Future
Mike Pence has kept his oath to the Constitution and has reminded the Right that a synthesis of conservatism and populism is possible. → Read More
The GOP Cavalry Arrives
Not long ago, President Biden and congressional Democrats were riding high. They benefited from falling gas prices, a rash of legislation, a foolish but popular student debt bailout, several weak GOP candidates, and voter backlash to the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Now it's autumn, and there is a chill in the air and a change in the political temperature. Republicans, the polls suggest, have a path… → Read More
The Ingrates of Vienna
The Biden administration’s desperate quest for an Iran Deal projects weakness. → Read More
The GOP Summer Swoon
The GOP needs a full-spectrum victory if it wants to stop the Left and shock Democrats into abandoning Biden. The data and events of the past week suggest that the party has a way to go. → Read More
The GOP Summer Swoon
Today caps off the worst week yet for Republicans in the 2022 campaign cycle. Their troubles began with Senate passage of the Chips and Science Act on Wednesday, July 27, and culminated in the Kansas pro-life rout on Tuesday, August 2. Before last week, the party was riding a red wave to victory in November's elections. Now, one month before the campaign begins in earnest on Labor Day, aimless… → Read More
Why Should We Believe Biden?
The Iran crisis is here, but President Joe Biden acts as if it hasn't yet arrived. → Read More
Who’s In Charge?
"Which way am I going?" asked President Biden when he ended Thursday's press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid. He began to exit stage right, before someone redirected him toward stage left. This combination of ignorance and indecision was not new. Throughout his 18 months as president, Biden has been confused, uncertain, sluggish. He behaves as if he is guided by unseen forces. He moves… → Read More
Republicans Surf the Red Wave
In January, FiveThirtyEight.com published a story with the headline, “Some Early Clues About How the Midterms Will Go.” The authors, Alex Samuels and Nathaniel Rakich, named four things to watch during the election year: President Biden’s job approval, the congressional generic ballot, special election results, and individual election polls. Six months later, all signs point to a great night for… → Read More
The Iran Crisis Is Here
As if we didn't have enough to worry about: This week Iran escalated its war against the West. → Read More