Jay Cost
Contributing Editor at Washington Examiner
Gerald R. Ford Nonresidential Fellow, @AEI. Author of 'Democracy or Republic.' Twitter is my rough draft, so I often delete Tweets. Keeping it friendly on here!
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4 weeks ago |
gazette.com | Jay Cost
We are fast approaching the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term, which is coming at the end of April. Unlike Trump’s first go-round, his tenure has been focused, energetic, and vigorous. The Trump administration of 2017 was already damaged at this point by useless fights over inaugural crowd sizes and the accusation that the president was tied to Russia. This time around, the administration has been (mostly) no-nonsense. And purposeful.
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1 month ago |
aei.org | Jay Cost
How Congress Lost, Part VI: Madison, Monroe, and the Republican Presidency Key PointsDisputes among the framers over the president’s appropriate role in national affairs lingered for more than a generation after the Constitution was ratified. When James Madison became president in 1809, he adopted a “republican” model of the presidency, emphasizing congressional opinion’s centrality to public policy formation. James Monroe, his successor in 1817, had a similar view.
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2 months ago |
aei.org | Jay Cost
Key Points While the Washington administration demonstrates the vast powers that the executive could wield in foreign and domestic affairs, the divergent experiences of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson illustrate that this influence does not belong to the president merely by virtue of his office. Adams struggled to exert his will because the Federalist Party’s loyalty was split between him and Alexander Hamilton.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
thedispatch.com | Nathan J. Beacom |Yuval Levin |Michael P. Zuckert |Jay Cost
Known as one of the most prescient observers of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville was also keenly interested in the country’s potential devolution into tyranny.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
aei.org | Jay Cost
The Biden administration is less than two months from its end, which cannot come soon enough. As a final insult to his staunchest defenders, those who long insisted he was a paragon of decency, President Joe Biden pardoned his convicted felon and all-around wastrel son Hunter. A more appropriate final chapter to his tenure, one cannot imagine. The “official” rankings of professional historians will likely be kinder to Biden than he deserves.
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I wonder if he realized this would be his last Easter and he decided to go for it. Really impressive show of strength.
This was goodbye Pope Francis rode through St. Peter's Square on the Popemobile yesterday despite being gravely ill https://t.co/7Qwy7FEUMh
RT @CaseyMattox_: @rachelbovard Anytime I know ANYTHING well, it's depressing to see media coverage of it. And then to realize I really don…
I have confidence the Pens are coming back. The Steelers ... not so much.
Kyle Dubas has long said that the goal is to return the Penguins to long-term sustained success "as urgently as possible." Is next year when the Penguins finally make a push to return to contention? From Dubas’ season-ending press conference in Cranberry: https://t.co/Rp7MRJZXio https://t.co/3xlKKFrHtg
