A.B Stoddard

United States

Columnist at The Bulwark

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Hey, Democrats. You Can Stop Playing Dead Now.

Dec 17, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

SIX WEEKS AFTER ELECTION DAY, Democrats remain in a fetal position. While Donald Trump enjoys a honeymoon, his opposition is barely protesting as he runs right over them. While some Democrats are eager to offer up post mortems and engage in self-flagellation about how the party failed, most of them are barely speaking about Trump.
What is Wrong with People?

Dec 10, 2024 | thebulwark.com | Mona Charen |A.B Stoddard

A.B. joins Mona to discuss Trump's anti-qualified appointees, Covid revisionism, and the depraved response to the cold-blooded murder of Brian Thompson. Just Between Us is a podcast exclusively for members of Bulwark+ featuring Mona Charen and her Bulwark colleagues unburdening themselves each Tuesday evening. To listen to this episode become a Bulwark+ …
Trump’s New Team Is a Gift to America’s Enemies

Dec 10, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

ON SUNDAY, WHEN A GOP SENATOR was asked whether Pete Hegseth’s excessive drinking could imperil his ability to serve as secretary of defense the senator responded that members of Congress and people in the news media drink a lot too. He encouraged the media to “move on” from such questions.
Leaving on a Jet Plane

Dec 5, 2024 | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |A.B Stoddard

A.B. Stoddard and Bill Kristol discuss Trump's controversial nominations for his administration, including Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and now possibly Ron DeSantis, and how members of congress are responding and being pressured. Leave a comment
Two Republican Senators Criticizing Trump-It’s a Start

Dec 3, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

THE RESPONSE FROM SENATE REPUBLICANS thus far to Donald Trump’s Shock and Awful nominations has been pathetic. Sure, in private, some GOP senators have expressed disgust about Trump picking unfit cronies to lead critical government operations. And yes, former Rep. Matt Gaetz had to withdraw from consideration for the job of attorney general, and some Republicans have warned that the remaining nominees will face significant “questions” at their confirmation hearings.
Dems Need New Mediums-And a New Message

Nov 21, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

STILL SMARTING FROM DEFEAT, Democrats are hoovering up data, focused on how they can win back the working-class voters who left them for Donald Trump, tossing around names of people they hope can lead the party out of the wilderness. Complaints and criticisms—about which policies were highlighted or not, which attacks went answered or not, which celebrity appearances might have turned off gettable voters—are being leveled at Kamala Harris’s losing campaign. In one of many postmortems, Rep.
GaetzGate

Nov 19, 2024 | thebulwark.com | Mona Charen |A.B Stoddard

Mona and A.B. discuss the Senate pushback on Gaetz, the meaning of these cabinet picks, rule of law, and Joe Biden's potentially grave upcoming mistake. Just Between Us is a podcast exclusively for members of Bulwark+ featuring Mona Charen and her Bulwark colleagues unburdening themselves each Tuesday evening. To listen to this episode become a Bulwark+…
How Much Harm Will MAGA Loyalists Inflict?

Nov 13, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

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The Tragedy of Joe Biden, Once More

Nov 13, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

HAD JOE BIDEN MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE, he may very well have found himself right now in a flurry of celebrations of his career. On Capitol Hill, at the White House, and in private gatherings around the country, he would have been fêted by Democrats—and some Republicans—eager to highlight his record of accomplishments and heap gratitude upon him. He would have been hailed for saving American democracy from Donald Trump and then sacrificing his own ambitions to do it again.
Democrats Now Must Rebuild Their Obliterated Party

Nov 8, 2024 | thebulwark.com | A.B Stoddard

THREE MONTHS AGO, the Democratic party looked robust. It was willing to push a sitting president off the ticket because of his advanced age, then it quickly united around another candidate. The Republican party, by contrast, was sticking with its (also old) convicted criminal. Parties exist to win elections, not launder money to their nominee’s lawyers or tend to the egos of elderly men—and the Democrats showed they understood that. But that party was demolished on Tuesday.

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