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Last House on the Left
The narrative around the 2018 midterms is that Republican retirements will fuel a Democratic House takeover. The GOP will find themselves in the minority if they are unable to hold these open seats. There is merit to this theory. In numerous competitive seats across the country, GOP retirements are hurting the party’s chance of retaining…
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Welcome to My House
As the 2018 Midterm elections approach, the focus is on the race for control of the House of Representatives. The upcoming November election presents the Democratic Party with the best opportunity to win the House since they lost it during the GOP wave in 2010. Democrats point to recent successes in special elections in Alabama…
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Don’t Lose The Fights You Pick
Breaking news cascades at a breakneck pace in this interminable 24-hours news cycle. Scandals come and go in the blink of an eye. Political careers are ended left, right, and center. The global order seems to teeter on the edge of catastrophe. As engaged citizens, one must take the time to filter, analyze, and contextualize…
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Why Trump Can Never be an Autocrat
On October 30, 2017, conservative writer and intellectual Norman Ornstein spoke at Washington University in St. Louis to promote a book he co-wrote, One Nation After Trump. He argued that the Trump presidency is leading the way toward autocracy (government by one person), kleptocracy (government by thieves), and kakistocracy (government by the worst). In fact,…
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Out of Excuses
Ever since it came into being, the modern American conservative movement has been dogged by accusations of racism. While many conservatives like to trace their roots back to Lincoln, the conservative movement in its modern sense really began later, rising to prominence during the mid-20th century at roughly the same time as the civil rights…
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Did the Confederacy Ever End?
On July 30, 2017, April Reign posted a message onto Twitter that would reverberate throughout the night. She created a hashtag called #NoConfederate in response to HBO’s Game of Thrones creators plans to create a show called Confederate where the Confederacy triumphed in the American Civil War. Overnight, the hashtag became the second most popular…
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An Interview with Norm Ornstein
On Oct. 30, the Washington University Political Review sat down with Norm Ornstein, a national commentator, political scientist, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. We asked Dr. Ornstein about his recently published book, the state of Washington, the situation facing the American press corps, the Republican Party’s present and future, and more. What…
