S. E. Cupp
Columnist
S.E. is a nationally syndicated columnist, author and commentator. She is author of the book “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity” and co-author of the book “Why You’re Wrong About the Right.” She is a CNN contributor.
As the next 2024 Republican primary debate approaches, it’s worth asking: Are we just looking for zingers and gaffes? What are we learning about the candidates, other than who can score more points?
If the GOP field consolidates, she could end up becoming the Trump alternative that independents, moderates and disenchanted Republicans have been hoping for, S.E. Cupp writes.
Donald Trump ushered in a new kind of ugliness in the GOP. It’s worse than embarrassing, the direct result of a morally bankrupt president and the complicit and power-hungry political party that fed his ego.
It’s especially difficult to “soften” messaging when Republicans have been suggesting barbaric, regressive and punitive ideas like jailing — and even killing! — women who have abortions.
Just as Donald Trump exposed a dark and ugly underbelly of the far right, the Hamas attacks have exposed a dark and ugly underbelly on the far left, S.E. Cupp writes.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio lost a vote to become House speaker. America is watching what it looks like when a political party is in its final throes of usefulness and relevance.
One can support the Palestinian cause and mourn their suffering — for they, too, are victims of Hamas — and criticize Israeli policies while also acknowledging the loss of life among Jews, without blaming them for their own murders.
Add this embarrassing failure of leadership to the Republicans’ other big problems, the biggest being Donald Trump, the former president and current GOP front runner facing 91 criminal counts.
We should not have needed a Donald Trump to come to appreciate a kind, intelligent, moral man like Sen. Mitt Romney, S.E. Cupp writes.