# ![@MichaelBarone Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::234540332.png) @MichaelBarone Michael Barone

Michael Barone posts on X about in the, donald trump, kamala harris, democrats the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Voting Patterns by State Have Changed According to Migration National Review Both immigration and internal migration explain states shifts in voting behavior and are changing the electoral map"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/article/440421/partisan-voting-patterns-states-change-democratic-republican-migration-immigration-electoral-map)  2016-09-28T00:28Z 372.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Libertarian Leanings on Pot Same-Sex Marriage and Gun Rights National Review Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues I see evidence that they are in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues: marijuana legalization same-sex marriage"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/article/351195/libertarian-leanings-pot-same-sex-marriage-and-gun-rights-michael-barone)  2013-06-17T22:05Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Charles Murray's two uncomfortable truths and his not-bad advice Give Charles Murray longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute credit for courage. Again and again despite outrageously unfair attacks he"  
[X Link](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/29437/charles-murrays-two-uncomfortable-truths-and-his-not-bad-advice/)  2025-12-05T14:23Z 228.6M followers, [---] engagements


"@2waytvapp @MarkHalperin @seanspicer Chuck Schumer has been an elected legislator since [----] [--] years ago. He got started as a legislator just two years after Joe Biden did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1882738200256627041)  2025-01-24T10:32Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@CTIronman One argument is that this is in line with FDR adm commuting Lucky Luciano's sentence for his cooperation in Allied advances in Sicily and southern Italy. But that seems a stretch doesn't it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1891150808902668290)  2025-02-16T15:41Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanTrende Republicans have won [--] of [--] NJ gov elections starting in [----] and Ciatarelli almost made it [--] of [--] in [----]. Dynamic as in MA (Weld Cellucci Baker) and NY (Pataki): stop lefty Demo legislators from wild tax increases and crazy cultural stuff. Not impossible this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1971202103617126574)  2025-09-25T13:16Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"It's a precis of my [----] book Our First Revolution on the events generally known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. My thesis is that American history would never have unfolded as it did except for the success of this high-risk enterprise. Link:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1976321366811955368)  2025-10-09T16:18Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@DouthatNYT @DouthatNYT's argument that parties need [--] years in power to make lasting policy naturally cities FDR/Truman. But their 1940s victories I argue came from foreign policy: FDR won in 40/44 as a strong leader in world crisis and war Truman in [--] for stopping Communist advance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1976709445104419229)  2025-10-10T18:00Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@DouthatNYT in Europe esp with the Berlin airlift--which he personally ordered over the advice of formidable military leaders. Democrats then lost in [----] because they couldn't get out of the deadlocked Korea war. Foreign policy mattered with 16m men (of 131m total pop) in the military"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1976710606586888515)  2025-10-10T18:05Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@RyanGirdusky Ryan is right on ME2. Also NH's Repub legislature could easily draw a safe Repub NH1--at the cost of creating an even safer Demo NH2. But Gov Chris Sununu stopped this in 2021-22 and I gather there's no move for it now. So winning party gets [--] seats with circa 55% of the vote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1979535400319258796)  2025-10-18T13:09Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@autopilot_chill Has anyone done a comparison of how Boeing developed the [---] and how it developed the 737-MAX Might be revealing and beyond the airframe manufacturing business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1980576928919908623)  2025-10-21T10:08Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@mikitaposts How about futures trading and candy manufaturing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1981071799418048551)  2025-10-22T18:54Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On the Trump ballroom. The White House is already sandwiched between two much larger buildings the antebellum Treasury and the Victorian Eisenhower OEOB. The Trump ballroom though glaringly larger than the Mansion and the West and East Wings is thus not totally out of scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1981417371966243053)  2025-10-23T17:48Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I've long thought part of the charm of the White House is the tiny size and crampedness--low ceilings--of the West Wing. A contrast perhaps with the high ambitions of people there and a hint to them that they won't always be as big a deal as they are think they are now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1981418154061434973)  2025-10-23T17:51Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"So I'm uncomfortable with the asymmetry of the ballroom but perhaps it can be seen as part of the jumble of buildings some of them attractive around what's been the most powerful place in the world since some months after Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1981419130185261291)  2025-10-23T17:55Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@chribreuer A Dutch firm today ASML makes the machines that make the world's semiconductor chips. And the geographically tiny Netherlands is no [--] or [--] agricultural exporting nation. Quietly the Dutch continue to do outstanding things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1981425746707976490)  2025-10-23T18:21Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer @grzegorzthegood @phl43 Yes the Midwestern migrants to California 1940-70 were replaced by the Mexican migrants to California 1982-2007. Immigration to California way down since with net population outflows in many years. It's hard to make paradise unattractive but California liberals succeeded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1982064143340593476)  2025-10-25T12:38Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Boenau As a Republican assemblyman elected in a San Francisco district Caspar Weinberger voted against the Embarcadero Freeway. There has been no investigation into whether years later he somehow triggered the earthquake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1982071249858596904)  2025-10-25T13:06Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Kamala Harris doesn't look her age. If elected in [----] she'd be the 8th oldest president to take office after Harrison Taylor Buchanan Reagan Bush Trump Biden. Almost 7th or 6th: she'd be [--] days younger than Taylor [---] days than Bush I who also didn't look his age "  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1982428936085856595)  2025-10-26T12:47Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@SeanTrende All winners. But maybe they didnt vote for the winners in [----] [----] amd 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1983353764871315844)  2025-10-29T02:02Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@JacobAShell Remember that Detroit New Orleans and St. Louis were all founded by the French. They figured out the Chicago portage route too. And their influence is seen in the pronunciation of ch in Michigan and Chicago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1983693436726435920)  2025-10-30T00:32Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"The immigration issue boils down to this: Most Democrats politicians and voters believe in open borders and most Americans don't. Even as they're uneasy about Trump's enforcement methods. My latest Washington Examiner column: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3868405/democrats-want-open-borders-most-americans-dont/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3868405/democrats-want-open-borders-most-americans-dont/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1983998709940826540)  2025-10-30T20:45Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@LIEngProf @MadLibHatter @bluearrowMaps @SageOfTime1 On your House recap dont neglect John Kerrys lossonly Democrat to lose an open House seat carried by McGovern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1984393434527068369)  2025-10-31T22:53Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@redsteeze Well Debs's sentence in federal prison was commuted by President Harding who invited him to lunch at the White House. Debs was convicted by the Wilson adm of speaking publicly against the draft. Demos agst free speech Repub president a journalist. for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1986112485812748476)  2025-11-05T16:44Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City with 50.4% of the votes. This is far behind the percentages won in the city by the last four Democratic presidential nominees: Harris 68% Biden 76% Clinton 79% Obama 81%. Obviously many Democratic voters voted against him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1986173812983943301)  2025-11-05T20:48Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Bad news for Republicans but with warnings for both parties. Democrats ran ahead of Harris [----] in VA and NJ but far behind in New York City. My latest Washington Examiner column. With thoughts on antisemitism and on Trump & tariffs at the Supreme Court. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3876245/bad-news-for-republicans-warnings-for-both-parties/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3876245/bad-news-for-republicans-warnings-for-both-parties/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1986175486905516451)  2025-11-05T20:55Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@RyanMaue When I went to the North Slope of Alaska in Feb [----] I was told it was [--] below. I asked whether that was Celsius or Fahrenheit and they told me it was both Thats when I learned that thats where the scales cross"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1987954020561166836)  2025-11-10T18:42Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@mkhammer But health insurance in the US is not like life or fire insurance. insurance which compensate for unwelcome events. Health insurance is largely prepayment of ordinary and predictable expenses. The expectation is that there will be payouts every year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1988343765078057248)  2025-11-11T20:31Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The election of Zohran Mamdani and the emergence of what I've called the barista proletariat inspire my latest column on the threat of an overproduced elite. This reinforces an old lesson: success breeds failure. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3884916/threat-overproduced-elite-higher-education/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3884916/threat-overproduced-elite-higher-education/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1988738953717940364)  2025-11-12T22:41Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Rainmaker1973 Six file drawers full of road maps of the US (alphabetized by state) and of foreign countries (alphabetized by nation)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1988741970848805075)  2025-11-12T22:53Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@jamiemoulthrop @Legal_Fil @KurtSchlichter And low taxes are one reason DE is the only Northeast state (except NH occasionally) gaining population above US average recently. Is there some way now to short DE real estate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1989485854096519260)  2025-11-15T00:09Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@karenvaites A sad commentary considering that the Boston Latin School founded [----] produced just in the 1930s graduates like author Theodore White musician Leonard Bernstein and Judge/Solicitor General Wade McCree whom I clerked for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1989506117731328111)  2025-11-15T01:29Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@JacobAShell But isnt the portage inside Chicago the best portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins You cross it when driving from the Loop to OHare but its imperceptible on the flat landscape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1990235182058873231)  2025-11-17T01:46Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@Lis_Smith @CTIronman Classic Chicago move. Bill Lipinski did almost the same thing back in [----] for his son Dan Lipinski who was teaching at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville at the time. Turned out to be a pretty good congressman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1990541508865634729)  2025-11-17T22:04Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@vrexec I learned about the Pilgrims stay in Leiden as a child. Not sure where: in school I suppose. Visited the Leiden site a couple years ago down the street from a large Dutch Protestant church"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1990844202872119433)  2025-11-18T18:07Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray He wrote his share of the Federalist Papers at [--] (taking his birth year as 1755) but even around age [--] he wrote a paper a long letter to Robert Morris setting out most of the financial system he would install as Treasury Secretary at age 36"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1993042950608326925)  2025-11-24T19:44Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@SidKhurana3607 Honolulu Not in a state then but very much part of the United States as the reaction to Pearl Harbor showed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1993715674980704725)  2025-11-26T16:17Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@aaron_renn And in the process built nice airports--Austin by adapting an Air Force Base Nashville by expanding the old airport. Cause or effect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1994034353337151612)  2025-11-27T13:23Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@SeanTrende The problem I think is they went pig on redistricting divvying up Nashville which was big enough by itself to form one safe Demo district. Playing pig may also some day hurt IL Democrats who have built bacon strips heading outward from Chicago wards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1994395567078920544)  2025-11-28T13:18Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer Remarkable that Nuno Loureiro was murdered at [--] Gibbs Street around the corner from [--] Beals Street where John F. Kennedy was born in [----]. It was a heavily Jewish neighborhood then and in November [----] when I walked by the house on the day Kennedy was buried"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2001601846691922046)  2025-12-18T10:34Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@megha_lilly No everyone does not want to live like that. Some people do which is fine (I'm one of them). But most Americans especially those raising families don't. School district congenial congregation giant supermarket more important to many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2003524762619003345)  2025-12-23T17:55Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A bit of after-Christmas advice: for those long dark winter nights set out to read some of the great classic novels. Here's how I've done it in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4362132/in-gloomy-winter-read-classic-books/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4362132/in-gloomy-winter-read-classic-books/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2004629252927619395)  2025-12-26T19:03Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@CTIronman I can remember Pat Moynihan saying that the Tammany NYC govt of Mayor George McClellan (1903-09) built three bridges across the East River. That's not chopped liver. Yes he was the son of the Civil War general"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2004979884914069693)  2025-12-27T18:17Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@MumbleEraLuke Someone once said that it makes no sense to invade Switzerland Afghanistan or West Virginia. Mountain people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2004980996706570440)  2025-12-27T18:21Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Start the new year right. On immigration and citizenship listen to George Washington in his letter to the Touro Synagogue [---] years ago. Specifics in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4393505/on-immigration-citizenship-listen-george-washington/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4393505/on-immigration-citizenship-listen-george-washington/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2007131227023913212)  2026-01-02T16:45Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@ya62897 @stats_feed If Kamala Harris is elected president in [----] she'd be inaugurated at the same age as the elder Bush and Zachary Taylor and at an older age than all but six other presidents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2008239487994999222)  2026-01-05T18:09Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@CowboyCantwell @harryh @stats_feed My recollection is that JPK was running a shipyard in Boston which he lost control of to Asst Secy of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt (six years older). War-related work. Also he was a father as was Fred Trump who was [--] at Pearl Harbor day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2008844458276917489)  2026-01-07T10:13Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@kausmickey More precisely: as Bill Clinton retooled in [----] ignoring House Democrats who had a sizable minority with hopes of retaining the majority in 1996"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2009321459169255530)  2026-01-08T17:49Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@ProducerCities Northwoods and Northern New England also had large % gains in 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2009660177319112707)  2026-01-09T16:14Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnCleese @HarryMacD This city in this picture is not Washington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2010401194817020157)  2026-01-11T17:19Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer @Empty_America Fischer in an introduction explicitly excludes New York City from his four groups. Interestingly the two great ports of antebellum America New York and New Orleans had non-British cultural roots--Dutch and French"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2011383290759131318)  2026-01-14T10:22Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@johndory1914 West Germany was half Catholic half Protestant. This avoided the problems of Bismarck's Kulturkampf. And Catholics (plus Berlin leftists) were the voting bloc most resistant to Hitler in the 1930s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2013920182062739894)  2026-01-21T10:22Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@chris_sav14357 @the_transit_guy "I hardly ever see people on bikes." Yes because the Midwest has much colder winters and hotter summers than peak bike-using Europe (Netherlands). Also many more hills. Bike paths there are nice for recreation not so good for commuting and shopping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2013924747533316499)  2026-01-21T10:40Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"In colonial America oceangoing vessels reached Alexandria VA and Georgetown MD. In antebellum America they reached Hartford CT original home base of J. P. Morgan. With Atlantic ports Mississippi River and Great Lakes networks and canals the young US had bounteous water transport. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014001500557656078 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014001500557656078"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2014001500557656078)  2026-01-21T15:45Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer @StatisticUrban Rusty Staub. A good guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015095709125562833)  2026-01-24T16:13Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Sen Lodge died in office in 1924; Lodge Jr. was elected to the Senate in [----] [----] and (after resigning in [----] for military service) in [----]. He was defeated for a fourth term in [----] by Fitzgerald's grandson John Fitzgerald Kennedy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015750578425463044)  2026-01-26T11:36Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"George Cabot Lodge lost to Edward Kennedy in [----] [--] years after the first Lodge vs Fitzgerald/Kennedy race and [--] years ago today. Quite a span of history the more so if you recall that the first Henry Cabot Lodge was elected to the House in [----] and the Senate in 1892"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015751646148538863)  2026-01-26T11:40Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@foxtror1 @Steve_Sailer President Tyler was born in [----] the first full year of George Washington's presidency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015837949737271664)  2026-01-26T17:23Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"George Cabot Lodge who ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate in [----] has died. His father Henry Cabot Lodge Jr was born in [----] old enough to remember his grandfather Senator Henry Cabot Lodge defeating John F. Fitzgerald for his fifth term in 1916"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015749867927195929)  2026-01-26T11:33Z 28.1K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Another measure of this historic span is that after losing to Kennedy at age [--] Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. turned down White House chief of staff to become ambassador to the UN. In that post he gained enough fame to be Republican VP nominee in 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2015752357091352647)  2026-01-26T11:43Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@JacobRubashkin Albert Gallatin in the 1790s was forced out of the Senate because he hadnt been a citizen long enough. Became a leader in the House Treasury Secretary 1801-14 Ghent treaty negotiator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016600932167909727)  2026-01-28T19:55Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@SidKhurana3607 Pittsburgh/Cleveland and the area between got a lot of immigrants from the Habsburg Austria-Hungary empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016637646475256020)  2026-01-28T22:20Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@aaron_renn Californication"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016638132163067926)  2026-01-28T22:22Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@JamesBlairUSA Rigged by the Biden administration But wasn't the [----] Census conducted and the results announced when President Trump was in office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016638622737326378)  2026-01-28T22:24Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@theisaacmed Uh one problem. You need to have a population that is 99% Japanese to get these results. And a metro area of [--] million people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016839248226185558)  2026-01-29T11:42Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@CTIronman @brianros1 @SeanTrende @cinyc9 CA had an advantage in the post-WW2 generation on climate: you could let the kids play in the back yard all year. But coastal real estate prices started to boom in the 1970s and by the 1980s air conditioning was getting to be universally available. No more CA advantage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2016994842232922367)  2026-01-29T22:00Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@AlecMacGillis The New England Yankee diaspora across Upstate NY and then to the former CT Western Reserve in northeast OH is plainky visible. Would be the major amti-slavery constituency in 1840s and 1850s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017314516975992861)  2026-01-30T19:10Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@2024dion Built under an agreement negotiated by the government of Canada and the governor of Michigan. (A US statute gives the power to negotiate international bridges to state governors.) Ex=PM Stephen Harper and Ex-Gov Rick Snyder deserves credit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017661980346089923)  2026-01-31T18:11Z 28.1K followers, 22.8K engagements


"@KaareJohnson Not European American. But with a distinct French influence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017736671802876374)  2026-01-31T23:08Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Chris_arnade Yes try walking against a Don't Walk sign in Germany even after midnight with zero traffic. Germans don't do it. Of course some Muslim immigrants will attack women who don't wear hijabs at the same time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017740497167528388)  2026-01-31T23:23Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@alexhaddad @2024dion the cross-border trade of which has been encouraged by US (and Canadian) policy since the auto parts free trade agreement of [----]. Supported by the UAW and the Detroit-based auto companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017997193341214974)  2026-02-01T16:23Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Lab leak story: How elite scientists lied and concealed the truth Opinion Lab leak story: How elite scientists lied and concealed the truth By Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst March [--] [----] 12:01 PM Twitter"  
[X Link](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/lab-leak-story-how-elite-scientists-lied-and-concealed-the-truth)  2023-03-02T07:50Z 368K followers, [----] engagements


"@2024dion My impression on visiting the area 8-10 years ago before this infrastructure that it wasnt a majority-black neihhborhood. Also visited Fort Wayne (visible in both photos) an interesting example of US antebellum military architecture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2017992258591576545)  2026-02-01T16:03Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Sadie_NC I remember when I first used a touch tone phone. On a pay phone on a street in the Loop in Chicago in summer [----]. During the Douglas-Percy Senate race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2018702646199078964)  2026-02-03T15:06Z 28.1K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@DanFriedman81 One who figured this out early was Chuck Schumer who worked for his James Madison High School teacher Stanley Kaplan on his part-time test prep business. Other James Madison grads include Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and senators Bernie Sanders and Norm Coleman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2018716851178549457)  2026-02-03T16:02Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnOSullivanNR Next Mamdani brainstorm: let's fine and tax businesses outside New York City who don't locate in New York City where we can tax and fine them even more heavily. Why should outsiders be able to get away with not paying New York City taxes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2020549205140406474)  2026-02-08T17:24Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@kelvmackenzie Hartlepool was the seat Mandelson represented in the House of Commons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2020588608848285810)  2026-02-08T20:00Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer @TruueDiscipline Indoor malls were built in the era of high crime. Private police could keep the bad guys out. When crime went down retail could go back to street level. Example: Georgetown Park in DC built circa [----] converted to apartments circa 2002"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2021540497823867210)  2026-02-11T11:03Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Yesterday after I wrote this the "Select All" button appeared. Today after I got used to using it it disappeared. So far as I can tell I didn't do anything to make either of these things happen. Now I must manually "Mark as Read" every email. So what's the story Apple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2021855142870421889)  2026-02-12T07:53Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Tyler_A_Harper Andrew Mellon wasn't a robber baron overcharging gov't for building subsidized railroads. He was a venture capitalist nurturing successful firms that made America economically richer and military stronger. See David Cannadine's biography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2022313723361136983)  2026-02-13T14:15Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@Empty_America Pressing need to live there It's near freeways a potentially beautiful city park Ford Motor HQ closer than most of metro Detroit to international airport from which you can fly anywhere in the world. But crime tanked values and homeowner maintenance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2022085621402284504)  2026-02-12T23:09Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"New Apple iPad 26.2.1 is truly hateful. Will not show me "Select All" when I am trying to mark multiple emails as Read. Why do Apple engineers take a function that worked well and load it up with a lot of garbage so that it doesn't work well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2020917012168351753)  2026-02-09T17:45Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@moseskagan But Mayor Karen Bass had time and money to go to the inauguration of the president of Ghana during fire season. Priorities. Once upon a time California was known for competent government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2022340855936475284)  2026-02-13T16:03Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@nataliapetrzela People ask me why I know so many dates. The answer is that you need the basic chronological framework to understand everything else about history. If you don't know that the Civil War came after the American Revolution your opinion on the cause of each is worthless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/2022667818768941270)  2026-02-14T13:42Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The Obama Administrations Spying on Trump Was a Departure from Norms National Review Has an outgoing president ever worked to delegitimize and dislodge his successor like this"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-campaign-spying-obama-administration-ignored-norms/)  2018-05-25T15:17Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"The Russia collusion hoax: unpatriotic The report of special counsel John Durham is or ought to be devastating for anyone who has put any credence in what has now been definitively revealed"  
[X Link](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/257379/the-russia-collusion-hoax-unpatriotic/)  2024-10-19T09:43Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"House Republicans even more than House Democrats before them have been violating the norm that you vote for the speaker candidate nominated by a majority of your party. What's the precedent and what's next See my latest Washington Examiner column:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1717507791697379737)  2023-10-26T11:45Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Just as in 1968-80 we're witnessing the politics of incumbent rejection. But there are some differences as I discuss in my latest Washington Examiner column"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1737597032208933287)  2023-12-20T22:13Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Why do Donald Trump's rivals are getting no bump from the Iowa caucus results of the kind Gary Hart finishing farther behind Walter Mondale among Iowa Democrats [--] years ago I try to explain and offer other reflections on the Republican race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1747333357510197630)  2024-01-16T19:01Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@asymmetricinfo @Nate_Cohn @NateSilver538 @SeanTrende The election night exit poll correctly said it was a 51-48 race. However it assigned the [--] to John Kerry and the [--] to George W. Bush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1747570629782454497)  2024-01-17T10:44Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Check out the very thoughtful review in the Wall Street Journal of my book Mental Maps of the Founders. You might even want to buy a copy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1747758123710812393)  2024-01-17T23:09Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Thanks for the fine review by Adam Rowe of my book Mental Maps of the Founders in the Wall Street Journal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1747758406583165344)  2024-01-17T23:10Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"'What's behind Joe Biden's open borders policy. In my latest Washington Examiner column I set out some facts and try to provide some historical context. Bottom line: it's an example of Trump Derangement Syndrome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1760365744078905708)  2024-02-21T18:07Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"I look at and beyond the Super Tuesday results in my latest Washington Examiner column and ask whether the nation--even the left--is recoiling against the craziness of the George Floyd period. Warning to Democrats: Disorder works against incumbents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1765721775122317644)  2024-03-07T12:50Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Does Nikki Haley's 17% of registered Republicans in Pennsylvania mean that Donald Trump is weak among Republicans in November Not necessarily. Party registration is a lagging indicator and in a state like PA where most people have stayed put a long time 1/x"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1783128301709537766)  2024-04-24T13:38Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ForecasterEnten If Trump carries NV GA and AZ all he needs is NE2 to send the election to the House--which will probably have a Republican majority of state delegations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1790492663025697159)  2024-05-14T21:21Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"A good question about an unusually opaque White House: why hasn't the Biden administration ditched its disastrously unpopular border policy Some thoughts in my latest Washington Examiner column: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3020816/why-doesnt-biden-white-house-ditch-unpopular-border-policy/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3020816/why-doesnt-biden-white-house-ditch-unpopular-border-policy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1795889011204006349)  2024-05-29T18:44Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Big contrast in the aggressive Joe Biden in the [----] VP debate and the passive Biden in the debate last week. The [----] debate saw the eclipse of one brand of politics. Will the [----] debate see the eclipse of another My column: A tale of two debates. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3066663/a-tale-of-two-debates/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3066663/a-tale-of-two-debates/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1808060598367768878)  2024-07-02T08:50Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The sad saga of Joe Biden is just the latest chapter in the history of our increasingly monarchical presidency. Or so I argue in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3076775/our-monarchical-presidency/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3076775/our-monarchical-presidency/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1811153654830776346)  2024-07-10T21:40Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"That White Dudes for Harris Zoom call was--in one word--weird. So I conclude in my latest column looking at the history and present state of gender and marriage gaps in politics. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3105996/white-dudes-harris-zoom-call-weird/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3105996/white-dudes-harris-zoom-call-weird/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1818716773468033048)  2024-07-31T18:34Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@jackfowler @baseballcrank @NRO You left off Thomas A. Hendricks Levi P. Morton (the longest-lived vice president) and Adlai E. Stevenson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1819692982188011641)  2024-08-03T11:13Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The party of those who deem themselves smart--white college graduates--has a presidential nominee who doesn't seem to know much about economics or history. Or so it appears. My latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3129427/candidate-doesnt-know-economic-history/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3129427/candidate-doesnt-know-economic-history/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1826326844460990665)  2024-08-21T18:33Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Curious fact: for their [----] Democratic convention the party had four of the party's former or current-and-not-running presidents alive: Carter Clinton Obama Biden. A first for the [--] Democratic and Republican conventions held starting in [----] and 1856"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1826952718457397596)  2024-08-23T12:00Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"What if the polls are understating Donald Trump's standing among a critical group of voters as they did in [----] and [----] I explore that question and its opposite in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3142862/what-if-trump-runs-ahead-poll-numbers/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3142862/what-if-trump-runs-ahead-poll-numbers/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1831379586833076248)  2024-09-04T17:11Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@PatrickRuffini Well except for one thing--Alvin Bragg's indictment seems to have erased the (in my opinion non-trivial) chance Ron DeSantis had of beating Trump for the Republican nomination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1832123896444940385)  2024-09-06T18:29Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Kamala Harris won the debate but maybe not the election. She left too many voters with questions about what she'd do as president. That's my conclusion which I explain in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3150916/kamala-harris-won-debate-but-maybe-not-election/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3150916/kamala-harris-won-debate-but-maybe-not-election/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1833925974716805273)  2024-09-11T17:49Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@tedfrank One reason the Electoral College helps Republicans today (and not as recently as [----] & 2012): the largest population state not vote close to the national average as NY did 1828-1960 and CA 1960-2000. CA is now out on the left wing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1834990481694245061)  2024-09-14T16:19Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"As Kamala Harris's campaign falls short of the beyond-the-margin-of-error lead it hoped for will it heed demands it change its strategy I explore that question in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3165311/kamala-harris-campaign-might-need-change-strategy/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3165311/kamala-harris-campaign-might-need-change-strategy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1838954984123121832)  2024-09-25T14:53Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy 100th birthday President Jimmy Carter Here's my Washington Examiner column looking back some months ago at his record as president. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2754427/give-credit-to-jimmy-carter/#google_vignette https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2754427/give-credit-to-jimmy-carter/#google_vignette"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1841153995521331299)  2024-10-01T16:31Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"What are the two reasons I think the vice presidential debate may actually matter Read my Washington Examiner column and see. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3174533/vice-presidential-debate-actually-may-matter/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3174533/vice-presidential-debate-actually-may-matter/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1841556713725641038)  2024-10-02T19:11Z 28.2K followers, 10K engagements


"@bariweiss @60Minutes The interesting thing is that CBS's Bill Whitaker seems sure to look good on a full transcript. Only Kamala Harris is likely to look worse than in the edited-for-air version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1845490103008833783)  2024-10-13T15:41Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Quiz. Which non-target state do you think will cast its [----] electoral votes contrary to the clearly established conventional wisdom Prize for the winner: a head start on defining the 2024-28 partisan realignment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1849372051166883854)  2024-10-24T08:47Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@WisVoter Door and Sauk both historically Republican trending Democratic Door as an upscale resort (like Grand Traverse MI) and Sauk as part of greater Madison. So naturally they're atypical of almost all other counties just happened to be in line with close '16 and '20 results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1852374247684845788)  2024-11-01T15:36Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"More campaign observations: Kamala Harris's deficient strategy central city turnout down because population is down the wisdom of Sean Trende. Plus a lifetime lesson: campaign volunteers for both parties are good people. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3224686/this-weeks-elections-upon-further-review/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3224686/this-weeks-elections-upon-further-review/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1855242097508442522)  2024-11-09T13:32Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnFugelsang Actually Eisenhower got a tax deal that enabled him to claim capital gain status for his income from Crusade in Europe. Considering his work in the 1940s he sorta earned it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1859625474751709244)  2024-11-21T15:50Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Some Democrats blame The Groups for Kamala Harris's loss: letterhead outfits that force unpopular issue stands. But The Groups do have one electoral constituency which I dub the barista proletariat--a small but dangerous bunch. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3244050/groups-barista-proletariat-democratic-party/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3244050/groups-barista-proletariat-democratic-party/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1862145999541559617)  2024-11-28T14:46Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@MrPlotnik @jawillick One reason is that very high turnout in majority-black districts provided the margin for Democrats in the national popular vote but didn't increase the number of Democratic House members. Not a replicable phenomenon: you only re-elect the first black president once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1862505724070297951)  2024-11-29T14:35Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@charlesmurray The history of the religious marketplace in the United States is that religions which ask more in the way of belief and behavior attract more people than those which ask little or nothing. Reflects something basic about human nature i suppose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1864797904613052864)  2024-12-05T22:24Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@HouseofElon @ChrisCillizza An "incredibly compressed timeline" to pick a VP All the time in the world compared to e.g. Gerald Ford who picked Bob Dole at 3am. And Dole turned out to have a lot more staying power in national politics than anyone thinks Walz has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1866191597332807913)  2024-12-09T18:42Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Why did tech pioneer and billionaire Mark Andreesen switch from Democrats to Donald Trump. It's all about free speech he says and its importance in the AI era. Democrats have been suppressing free speech he says; Trump not so much. My latest column: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3257246/marc-andreessen-backs-trump-worried-democrats-disinformation/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3257246/marc-andreessen-backs-trump-worried-democrats-disinformation/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1866897135003898149)  2024-12-11T17:25Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Who'd a-thunk it When other nations' leaders are failing and Democrats are flailing America--and Donald Trump--are riding high. I look back on Trump's triumph nine years and six months after descending that escalator in my latest Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3264397/trump-success-who-would-have-thunk-it/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3264397/trump-success-who-would-have-thunk-it/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1869514575206584543)  2024-12-18T22:46Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@vvksurf And Republican politicians and presidents haven't made a big point of cancelling student loans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1870937802457915812)  2024-12-22T21:01Z 28.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@PatrickRuffini But it was the Math Olympiad types--many from two elite Budapest high schools--who developed the atomic bomb which prevented even deadlier US amphibious assaults on Japan. America needed and needs both types"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1872708359901814849)  2024-12-27T18:17Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanTrende My recollection is that SAT scores peaked in high school class of [----] (which produced three presidents). My sense is that multiple applications means that some good applicants get into many schools and some into none. Could colleges maybe collude so all high scorers get in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1872709804634096057)  2024-12-27T18:23Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@SeanTrende There was maybe a moment when America valued nerds more--after the Sputnik launch in [----]. Lots of advanced math classes in high school NSF graduate school scholarships. In the background was the Manhattan Project: scientists won a war in a way that saved American lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1872711237479612924)  2024-12-27T18:28Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray It's Lotharingia plus Paris and London. Since Charlemagne's grandson named Lotharingia--present day Benelux Rhineland Switzerland northern Italy--after himself it's been the richest most creative and most war-torn part of Europe. Something fundamental about this geography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1873436695900958795)  2024-12-29T18:31Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Steve_Sailer @elonmusk US population increased between 30% and 40% in every 10-year intercensal period between [----] and [----]. Immigration was not a major factor until 1845-60. Franklin predicted the US would be more populous than England within [---] years and he was right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1873488207649870310)  2024-12-29T21:56Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"President Jimmy Carter has died at age [---]. Here's the Washington Examiner column "Give Credit to Jimmy Carter" I wrote when he entered hospice care last year. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2754427/give-credit-to-jimmy-carter/#google_vignette https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2754427/give-credit-to-jimmy-carter/#google_vignette"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1873684507553153200)  2024-12-30T10:56Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray I'm still puzzled and sad that he killed himself in February [----] when he was safe in Brazil and just [--] years old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1874106014607565117)  2024-12-31T14:51Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"My analysis of Mark Zuckerberg's astonishing reversal and his new support of freedom of speech: the masses win the experts lose. Firing the biased fact-checkers and moving personnel from the Bay Area to Texas: heartening decision My latest WaEx column: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3280981/facebook-free-speech-masses-win-experts-lose/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3280981/facebook-free-speech-masses-win-experts-lose/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1877159049977806849)  2025-01-09T01:02Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Donald Trump is succeeding hugely as he approaches his second inauguration and his opponents are flailing and failing. This could be the start of a new political era I argue in my latest column but it could end like Joe Biden's term in failure https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3287897/trump-succeeding-while-opponents-fail/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3287897/trump-succeeding-while-opponents-fail/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1879640047429009871)  2025-01-15T21:21Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@ZaidJilani Another factor: Trump's popular vote margin was larger in the first days/weeks after the election because California takes so long to count its votes. Trying to maximize supposedly Democratic marginal voters turned out to be self-harming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1881111180317761582)  2025-01-19T22:47Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Donald Trump has Andrew Jackson's portrait up in the Oval Office. Is Trump the second coming of the first Democratic president I explore the similarities--and differences--in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3296489/donald-trump-second-coming-andrew-jackson/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3296489/donald-trump-second-coming-andrew-jackson/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1882103707313299872)  2025-01-22T16:31Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@jimgeraghty Good point on Juno Beach. The Canadians got farther inland the first day than Americans or Brits. At least one historian has written that the Canadians were the best Allied troops in WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1886440645323018430)  2025-02-03T15:44Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@guypbenson Reminds me of how so many Supreme Court justices recused themselves from the government antitrust case against Alcoa Aluminum that Congress passed a law requiring it to be decided by the Second Circuit. Case brought [----] decided 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1899870088154447896)  2025-03-12T17:08Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Am I in the tank for Donald Trump--or his opponents Grok doesn't think so for whatever that may be worth. https://x.com/i/grokconversation=1909187973125455953 https://x.com/i/grokconversation=1909187973125455953"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1909188712451256443)  2025-04-07T10:17Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@MattKleinOnline John C. Calhoun who undermined both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Also George Clinton who cast a tie-breaking vote against recharter of the Bank of the United States which President Madison supported. As a result we lacked a national bank to finance the War of 1812"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1909670099549929801)  2025-04-08T18:10Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisCillizza What have they accomplished Shapiro got I-95 rebuilt in record time. In contrast Buttigieg had $4 billion to build charging stations and built no more than [--]. It would be good to know more about what the others have accomplished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1909672277412921853)  2025-04-08T18:18Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@jmhorp Is that adjusted for inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1914358609212829764)  2025-04-21T16:40Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@Jaamennn @charlesmurray The poll tax wasn't devious. What was devious was the underlying threat of using force and violence to deter blacks from choosing formerly white schools. A threat that had credibility when Little Rock [----] the Freedom Rides [----] and Birmingham [----] were fresh memories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1915304941272416382)  2025-04-24T07:20Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisCillizza Taking a page from Hillary Clinton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1915747492878037001)  2025-04-25T12:39Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@CTIronman Well it's in the Pioneer Valley in western MA part of the heavily left rural area extending into VT and western NH Litchfield Co CT Columbia & Ulster Cos NY. Lots of colleges New York expats who like the hip rural lifestyle. Atypical obviously of most of rural America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1916907209461530808)  2025-04-28T17:27Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@CTIronman Or VA11 represented by Tom Davis in the 1990s when he headed the NRCC. More recently a safe Democratic seat for Gerry Connolly who is now retiring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1917177307304804837)  2025-04-29T11:21Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@MattZeitlin Arguably Bill Clinton did that with Al Gore and you might add Gore did it with Joe Lieberman. Maybe Hillary Clinton with Tim Kaine. John Kerry Barack Obama Joe Biden Kamala Harris--not so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1918083775793086687)  2025-05-01T23:23Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@CTIronman @DouthatNYT It was run by the Jesuits for years--including during the French Revolution and the anticlerical Third Republic which Quebecers didn't like. For more info read Conrad Black's biography of Maurice Duplessis Quebec premier 1944-59"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1919462527588598074)  2025-05-05T18:41Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@jawillick Well Dean Phillips got into it but no one in the press (including me) seemed to take him seriously. Maybe we should have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1922974056178909587)  2025-05-15T11:15Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@ATabarrok @asymmetricinfo This reminds me of my question of whether Georgetown counted (then Prince now King) Felipe of Spain a descendant of King Louis XIV and the Emperor Charles V as Hispanic when he studied there. Would have helped meet their quota"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1926934189321928952)  2025-05-26T09:31Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidMarkDC His great-grandfather John Tyler Sr. was a classmate of Thomas Jefferson at William & Mary. In the 1760s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1928015698783056132)  2025-05-29T09:08Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Buttigieg says Biden was responsive to him when he sought something. Questions: How often was that Did Biden understand the problem Did Buttigieg seek to get rid of the requirements that prevented him from building more than [--] charging stations and zero broadband capacity with the $6b or so authorized If not why not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1928852996080939469)  2025-05-31T16:36Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The prevailing political pattern in much--not all--of the world: the Metropole (plus Minorities) versus the Heartland. Visible since [----] balance changing as Minorities and the young move toward Heartland. My latest Washington Examiner column. . https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3430874/heartland-politics-populism-europe-poland-elections/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3430874/heartland-politics-populism-europe-poland-elections/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1930530490814996978)  2025-06-05T07:41Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@charlesmurray Diminishment of B/W IQ differences seems to coincide with the 1940-65 movement of 1/3 of American blacks from the mostly rural South to the big cities of the North. So do blacks pre-Great Society income gains identified in Losing Ground. Was the Great Migration responsible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1931063179234447558)  2025-06-06T18:58Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@RyanGirdusky @PatrickRuffini DeWitt Clinton. Mayor as Senator drafted the 12th Amendment presidential candidate as Governor built the Erie Canal. Died at 58"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1933476217468170595)  2025-06-13T10:47Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@guypbenson Another reason: its June. I remember when during Stanley Cup finals in early April the ice would start melting in Maple Leaf Gardens or the Montreal Forum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1935016705421422863)  2025-06-17T16:48Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Events have been moving fast this week. I take a look at two great historians' perspectives--and how events are playing out from Tehran to the outer boroughs of New York City. My latest column: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3446038/remaking-history-israel-iran-conflict-axis-of-ill-will/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3446038/remaking-history-israel-iran-conflict-axis-of-ill-will/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1935409270377365657)  2025-06-18T18:48Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Weighing in after this column was written Niall Ferguson and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant call on President Trump to bomb Fordow. "The United States can shorten the war prevent wider escalation and end the principal threat to Middle East stability." https://www.thefp.com/p/israel-us-must-finish-job https://www.thefp.com/p/israel-us-must-finish-job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1935610626916696411)  2025-06-19T08:08Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanTrende Dependence on a few taxpayers is one problem with steeply progressive taxes. Another is wild variation from year to year in capital gains. No tax system is without its drawbacks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1935747068095873302)  2025-06-19T17:10Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@shipwreckedcrew The more interesting question is why they think this is morally justified. Officials who resisted the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s believed slavery was evil. Do Johnson et al. believe that any limit on immigration is evil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936023901852598380)  2025-06-20T11:30Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@r_fry1 @asymmetricinfo The fact that it was 16% in [----] suggests to me that it might have been higher in the 19th century. Lots of men living on the outlying fringes of society and some women never married: Huck Finns America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936137456266379726)  2025-06-20T19:01Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@baseballcrank Hey Venus hasn't attacked us since then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936423006689255930)  2025-06-21T13:56Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@netanyahu @realDonaldTrump "With the awesome and righteous might of the United States." Netanyahu echoes Franklin Roosevelt December [--] 1941: "The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." Goodness and strength linked in internal rhyme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936729088439259196)  2025-06-22T10:12Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Benjamin Netanyahu has a grounding in American speech and American history. This weekend he praised "the awesome and righteous might of the United States." Franklin Roosevelt Dec. [--] 1941: "The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936873866061651990)  2025-06-22T19:48Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@netanyahu @realDonaldTrump It also makes nonsense I have long thought of those who faulted Roosevelt for seeking "unconditional surrender" of Germany and Japan. After that phrase what else could he have settled for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1936874708265267601)  2025-06-22T19:51Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@wesyang Well to San Francisco's credit they recalled Chesa Boudin threw him ignominiously out of office. Does New York City have a procedure to recall a mayor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937160623814475792)  2025-06-23T14:47Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@wesyang It would be interesting to review the scandals and pressures that resulted in the resignations of Mayors Jimmy Walker in [----] and William O'Dwyer in 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937170604848803844)  2025-06-23T15:27Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@yeselson @SeanTrende Actually governors traditionally hated mayors of the same party more than those of the other party. Rockefeller/Lindsay Cuomo/Koch Pataki/Giuliani until 9/11 Cuomo/de Blasio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937444448444776821)  2025-06-24T09:35Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@micsolana Was his first name Zohran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937465647023227043)  2025-06-24T10:59Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@DallasAptGP It's a Voting Rights Act district"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937513385874055499)  2025-06-24T14:09Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@CTIronman Lots of good reasons not to want the job. It's a lot of hard work a lot of confrontation with ordinary people (& ordinary New Yorkers who are not shy about complaining). At [--] maybe he didn't feel like it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937884968018931790)  2025-06-25T14:45Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@CTIronman I'm puzzled about the Asians. Did Cuomo bring up the selective high schools Crime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937886145884328423)  2025-06-25T14:50Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The barista proletariat wins in New York. That's the headline on my analysis--lots of demography dollops of history--of Zohran Mamdani's big (and in my view disturbing) win in New York. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3453424/barista-proletariat-wins-in-new-york-zohran-mamdani/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3453424/barista-proletariat-wins-in-new-york-zohran-mamdani/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937889877271744689)  2025-06-25T15:05Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@RenuMukherjee1 @wesyang Did Cuomo do any campaigning with Asians Or just a media blitz or nothing As Tip O'Neill used to say "You have to ask for people's votes. People like to be asked.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1937925262924030227)  2025-06-25T17:26Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@SeanTrende Kansas City southwest. Nashville south. Also south: Denver Jacksonville Birmingham and in my opinion Charlotte"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1938652327348707746)  2025-06-27T17:35Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@indie_soccer @robkhenderson In the long run of history these are indeed luxury apartments even if (in Europe anyway) they're not air conditioned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1939046173588717780)  2025-06-28T19:40Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@MattZeitlin @davidshor Read Zohran Mamdanis [----] tweets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1939342319678869567)  2025-06-29T15:16Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The largest city in the USA. More than twice the population of any other US city"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1939381147592491221)  2025-06-29T17:51Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@FoxNews Seeking advice from one of New York City's best guides to antisemitism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1939710933686788520)  2025-06-30T15:41Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@JamesSurowiecki @Steve_Sailer @Audens6 Alejandro Mayorkas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1939986596188561412)  2025-07-01T09:57Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@LucasFoxNews James Monroe died on July [--] [----]. James Madison at [--] was visibly declining in June [----]. His doctors said they could keep him alive until the 4th. He reportedly said words to the effect of don't bother. He died on June 28"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1941125044538917347)  2025-07-04T13:20Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@LIEngProf That's the election in which about half the Nixon districts elected Democratic House members. That sort of thing doesn't happen any more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1941820222626832597)  2025-07-06T11:23Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@nick_field90 There are strong reasons why even as popular a leader as TR (whose 56% in [----] was a record) couldn't make a third party competitive--and why Elon can't today. See my [----] book on our two parties. And [--] seats out of [---] isn't a success."  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1941825087553880264)  2025-07-06T11:42Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@CTIronman Another way to put it with popular culture reference is that Italian-Americans tend to live within [---] miles of Tony Soprano's company Barone Sanitation. Which gets you from Philadelphia to New Haven short of Providence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1942191095506419820)  2025-07-07T11:56Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@baseballcrank Especially in this race because as the NYTimes editorial made clear the only way to affect the result was to make either Cuomo or Mamdani but not both and not neither as one of your choices. Didn't matter if 1st or 5th choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1942636793956127029)  2025-07-08T17:27Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"For those familiar with the austere ultra-honest UAW led 1940s-1980s by Walter Reuther Leonard Woodcock and Doug Fraser the recent shenanigans alluded to in this City Journal article verge on the tragic. https://www.city-journal.org/article/uaw-president-shawn-fain-retaliation-allegations https://www.city-journal.org/article/uaw-president-shawn-fain-retaliation-allegations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1944371358437188080)  2025-07-13T12:20Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Note that the barista proletariat has made inroads into UAW leadership staff as well as membership (grad school locals). Once a creative force on the liberal left the UAW is in tragic decline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1944371977558348015)  2025-07-13T12:22Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanTrende MO's slave population was concentrated in a belt of counties north of the Missouri River from St. Louis to Kansas City. Never very large and ruffians like Sen. David Atchison backed the Fugitive Slave Act and tried to get slavery in the Kanas Territory in the 1850s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1945119142530412893)  2025-07-15T13:51Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanTrende There were a couple of German counties like Gasconade west of St. Louis but in the 19th century the state's Repub strength was in St. Louis with significant German population (Anheuser-Busch)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1945119771332137381)  2025-07-15T13:54Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@darelmass It's my barista proletariat https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3453424/barista-proletariat-wins-in-new-york-zohran-mamdani/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3453424/barista-proletariat-wins-in-new-york-zohran-mamdani/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1945495880078864719)  2025-07-16T14:48Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@WhiteHouse @CocaCola But won't that mean using a lot of foreign-grown sugar rather than US-grown corn starch syrup"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1945766807039615156)  2025-07-17T08:45Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@ByronYork I''m fascinated by what looks to me like insistence that all late-night network "comedy" programs lean left. Seems to me Johnny Carson & Jay Leno took a different approach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1946620644742861086)  2025-07-19T17:18Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Duderichy Before [----] you didn't need a passport (or the more recent State Dept document) to go to Canada or to Mexican border towns. That's one reason for the sharp increase. A second is passport requirements for stops on cruise lines. A third is competition in international air fares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1946635789963845835)  2025-07-19T18:18Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@MTabarrok The idea that bicycling is healthful is obviously wrong in dense American cities. On old rails converted to bike trails yes. In flat moderate-weather places like the Netherlands with dedicated lanes and accustomed drivers yes. But in DC or NYC not by orders of magnitude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1947620437715784136)  2025-07-22T11:31Z 28.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray Very large metro area MSP virtually twice the pop of MKE [--] times DSM attracting large no of Ivy/nearIvy grads. In This House We Believe types proud of voting for pro-violence wackos like Ilhan Omar. Metro area larger % of state than WI or IA; as outstate areas trend Rep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1950377446303264814)  2025-07-30T02:06Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray Remember that Iowa is the largest population state without a single county lying in a million-plus metro area. Not one of the 99"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1950377730886836488)  2025-07-30T02:07Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@SeanTrende [--]. And have written about each of them too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1950676960813719892)  2025-07-30T21:56Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Looking ahead to [----] conventional wisdom says Democrats--the out-party--gains. But it's not plain that Democrats have gotten up off the floor: several trends are against them few if any help. I look ahead in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3486750/midterm-elections-democratic-party-polling/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3486750/midterm-elections-democratic-party-polling/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1950681070115946861)  2025-07-30T22:13Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Shimshon1800 @EliLake Roosevelt had to deal with the Hitler-Stalin alliance 1939-41 plus Italy and Japan the fall of France Battle of Britain. Would have been good if hed let in the St Louis and sacked Breckinridge Long at State but he faced tragic choices and destroyed Hitler his no [--] goal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1957432166645657886)  2025-08-18T13:19Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@SeanTrende The same type of person who hired Dylan Mulvaney to change the image of Bud Light. Make Cracker Barrel look like a place Ivy grads will be comfortable in. Do boards of directors know the kind of people theyre hiring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1958519936491344196)  2025-08-21T13:21Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@CTIronman Finlandized. You could get more anti-Soviet broadcasting in [----] from the Estonia SSR than from Finland. Finland was not only neutral in the Cold War but avoided criticism of t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1959989976558416117)  2025-08-25T14:43Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@CTIronman he Soviet Union. Now Finland is in NATO and its head of government was in the White House with the leaders of the UK France Germany NATO and the EU last Monday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1959990372911710436)  2025-08-25T14:44Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@StickelTedward @rkylesmith The cashiers (no baggers) and other employees at my local Trader Joe's are nice people--efficient cheerful helpful. They seem proud of their work and have good reason to be proud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelBarone/status/1960325663744745629)  2025-08-26T12:57Z 28.2K followers, [--] engagements

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