Comment on Vance’s Version of Trump Is Better Than the Real Thing

Flanked by dozens of union members, a group of Colorado Democrats unveiled legislation Tuesday to remove a unique barrier to union organizing in the state. The proposal, which will not be introduced until the legislative session starts in early January, would repeal an 81-year-old requirement that unions in Colorado pass a second election to require dues from all workers they represent.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S. C.) has proven time and time again that she will do nearly anything to make headlines. But on Monday, she reached a new low, introducing a resolution seeking to bar transgender members and employees in the House of Representatives from using the bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity in the Capitol building.

This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head the Department of Government Efficiency. Despite the name, it is not a government department. In fact, it is not part of the government at all.

Donald Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term—thus occupying two numerical slots in the presidential order—he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president. For more than a century, Cleveland, the first Democrat to occupy the White House during the postbellum period, enjoyed the distinction of being America’s only president to serve non-consecutive terms.

The leftist press is having a hard time keeping up with Trump’s rapid-fire Cabinet and staff nominations.

Still reeling from President Trump’s great win, media economists argue that it wasn’t “fair” to hold inflation woes against the Biden-Harris regime.