Thirty-four Republicans voted against his budget plan. That’s a caucus big enough to tank anything crazy in the future. From David Mastio:

GOP Sen. Southworth said Trump “is not a normal” Republican, but he’s the “best and possibly the only person who can be president right now.”

Republicans and Democrats expect Sen. Mitch McConnell will remain a thorn in Donald Trump's side even without a leadership role.

In addition to voting in the presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, voters in Kentucky will cast ballots for the state’s six congressional districts.

While the trial proved popular at first, approval ratings dropped by 1974, with one of the main complaints being the lack of sunlight on winter mornings, according to the Smithsonian Magazine. In October of that year, President Gerald Ford signed a bill that ended permanent daylight saving time, cutting the trial period short.

In a recent interview, outgoing Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell teed off on Trump’s “America First” movement and made reference to its fascist roots.

When President Joe Biden commuted the prison terms of hundreds of so-called “non-violent” offenders last week, he reopened an old wound for one Mississippi family. The family is speaking out after a convicted oncologist,

Robert Gable, who died at 90 on Nov. 29, will be remembered by the Kentucky political world as the man who kept the state Republican ... half a century later. Trump using 2020 election lies as litmus test for hiring Gable’s party has been taken over ...

The rebels are largely the most conservative lawmakers who are passionate about slashing spending and debt. They hail from deep-red districts where a primary challenge is less of a danger.

Republicans are under more pressure than usual as Trump and his allies make clear that they will confront senators who don’t fall in line.

Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish defense minister, told the paper Jyllands-Posten Tuesday that the country plans to spend a “double-digit billion amount” in krone — about $1.5 billion — to make sure they have a “stronger presence” in the Arctic.

Trump and his allies say the GOP is the party of free speech. Their actions say otherwise. For them, free speech means they get to shout the loudest and silence everyone who disagrees with them. This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 14 episode of “Ayman.”