The Trump-MAGA Purge - WSJ Opinion

“Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley is very bad for the Republican Party and, indeed, our Country,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday on his social-media site. “Anybody that makes a ‘Contribution’ to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them, and will not accept them.”

The art of persuasion.

He may find people react to his threats by voting for another candidate, or not at all.

Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Gets Four-Month Sentence for Defying Jan. 6 Committee - WSJ

“You were more than happy to talk to the press about what you did… but not go up to the Hill to talk to Congress,” the judge said.

Hunter?

The Justice Department had suggested a six-month sentence for Navarro, saying he had thumbed his nose at congressional authority as if he were above the law.

Hunter.

The Money-Market Bonanza Is Over. So Is Now the Time for Stocks? - WSJ

The S&P and Dow both hit records Tuesday, making further gains from here difficult.

Why did the editor allow this line to be published?

The S&P 500 set more than 1,000 record highs between 1950 and 2021, according to an analysis by Royal Bank of Canada. One year later, those highs were followed by a correction—a decline of more than 20%—less than 7% of the time. When the time horizon was extended to 10 years, that number dropped to 0.

This was seven paragraphs later, and exactly my point.

The Labor Union That Defeated Amazon Is Fighting for Survival - WSJ

The union is “dealing with a lot of institutional failure—failure of the labor law and failure of American businesses to really accept unionizing without putting up a battle,” said Wilma Liebman, formerly chair of the National Labor Relations Board under President Barack Obama.

Sometimes, when you’re asked to give a quote, a simple “no” is best.

The GOP Wants Pure, Uncut Trumpism as Haley’s Path Forward Narrows - WSJ

What the GOP’s most loyal voters want, it seems, is pure, uncut Trumpism—with all the baggage and ideological divergence from traditional conservatism that entails.

I’m old enough to remember when Trump wasted two months after his election on his loss instead of on winning the Georgia Senate runoffs.

The GOP lost the Senate, and we got the radical appointees, endless mandates, administrative state fiat galore, economic misery, and rancor of the last four years.

Gracious Trump Runs Out To Welcome Prodigal DeSantis Back Home - Babylon Bee

“This son of mine was dead, and boy, was he so dead, I mean really, really dead, believe me. But now, he is alive again; he was lost and is found. He was Meatball, but now he is Ron. He was DeSanctimonious, but now he is DeSantis once again. So fantastic, really.”

The 2024 Republican Choice - WSJ

It also isn’t clear Mr. Trump could attract first-rate advisers. The lure of power is strong, but anyone who takes a job had better have a lawyer on retainer. No conservative who wants a career in the law is likely to accept a job in the White House or Justice—not after what Mr. Trump asked his lawyers to do after the 2020 election.