The First Three Days

It’s going to be an interesting year. It’s going to be an interesting four years.

 

There’s no point repeating here what’s been said elsewhere. That’s what links are for. So…for my thoughts from the day before the inauguration (which hold up now, I believe), you can read my editorial in the new print issue. There I suggest Obama and Trump don’t illustrate the range of political possibilities, that the nation will be able to “see beyond progressivism and look above populism.” For my thoughts the morning after inauguration, take a listen to my podcast with Michael Graham here. (Someone on Twitter said it was unusually animated. Perhaps. These are animating times.)

 

If I may say so myself, we had a lot of insightful analysis online of Trump’s first couple of days in office. I’d call attention particularly to Alice Lloyd’s amusing and interesting account of the Women’s March, Jonathan Last’s great dissection of the Sean Spicer episode (which as I write Monday morning is apparently being discussed on Morning Joe), and Steve Hayes’s report on the Senate Democrats delaying Mike Pompeo’s confirmation as head of the CIA. And there’s lots more. There’s also a lot to read in the new issue, including important pieces on governing by old pros Chris DeMuth and Jeff Bergner, which senior Trump administration officials would benefit from reading.

 

Speaking of Twitter, since so much transpires these days on it, I’ll suggest again that you might want to take a look at various TWS contributors’ Twitter feeds. It’s easy, even if you’re not registered on Twitter. You can follow what our staff is tweeting, without an account, by bookmarking this link. And the @WeeklyStandard Twitter account also tweets out links to many of our pieces, so it’s another way of keeping up with what’s on the website.