I’m delighted to announce that “Wood Work: Building a Living, Crafting a Life” is available for preorder (link in comments). Publication date 12/1/26 via Islandport Press. 🪓 🪵
This guy is literally auditioning to be the next Secretary of Defense in real time. 🤣
Because that’s how easy it is to manipulate this administration. You just tell them what they want to hear.
As possibly the only person in American politics less popular than Trump himself, it makes perfect sense. An autocrat's circle always grows smaller as ruthless loyalty out of complicity becomes the only relevant qualification.
Lives lost, billions spent for what? Leadership includes the ability to speak truth to power and fight for what’s right, and not just when it’s easy. That quality isn’t one possessed by you or anyone in this administration, and that’s why you continue to fail the American people.
The Republican Party is at war with itself today. The White House blames Fox News and lazy candidates. The vice president blames the war he’s been selling to voters. Fingers are pointing in every direction. But for the first time, a lot of them are pointing at Donald Trump.
A senior Senate Republican called it a bloodbath, then added three words: “Trump did this.” For ten years you couldn’t get a Republican to say that out loud.
Now they’re lining up. A former GOP legislator in Texas calls it an abject repudiation of Trumpism. A county chair in Ohio says the party has to drop Trump’s style. And the Republican who just lost in Maine says Trump’s going to be gone in two years.
Whatever happens to Trump, the Congress that let him do whatever he wanted is gone for good. And he knows it.
I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
@AdamKinzinger You’re a good man, Adam. It takes a lot of courage and character to stand against the crowd in what you know is right. Grateful for you 👊🏻
Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.