Ed Rogers

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ROGERS: Perception of Trump could shape the Democratic 2020 campaign

With a few candidates having entered the 2020 Democratic contest for president and several more on the brink, it will be worth watching which, if any candidates, will have something affirmative and original to say versus those who will just follow a rote script, reciting talking points meant to placate the fashionable leftist activists. Part of the answer will come from what Democrats think it will take to win the party’s nomination and whether they believe President Donald Trump will be easy to beat in the 2020 general election.

January 20, 2019 Columnists

In this Dec. 6, 2018 file photo, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won her bid for a seat in the House of Representatives in New York's 14th Congressional District, asks 2014 Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai a question at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

ROGERS: Democratic socialists can't hide their shallowness

Writing in The Washington Post on Saturday, columnist Dana Milbank made the point: “It’s time for Democrats to be the grownups.” But on matters large and small, it appears that they cannot escape their own shallowness and they are stuck in early adolescence.

January 11, 2019 Columnists

Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference following the 2018 midterm elections at the Capitol Building on Nov. 7, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

ROGERS: Elizabeth Warren personifies Democrats' 2020 dilemma

With Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., entering the race for president by announcing she was starting an exploratory committee, a key aspect of the decision that Democrats will have to make about their nominee in 2020 is becoming more clear.

January 3, 2019 Columnists

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a rally against the Republican tax plan outside the U.S. Capitol Nov. 1, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

ROGERS: Democrats and the liberal media are afraid of Kanye West

Has the bizarre relationship between President Donald Trump and Kanye West struck a nerve or what? Rather than have the discipline to ignore this bromance, the tiresome Democrats and their phoney leftist allies in the media have overreacted and given credibility where very little is due. I’ve never been much of a West fan but the reaction to West befriending Trump has certainly got my attention. Democrats and their allies are quite literally having a fit that is making them tremble and sputter and say things that are inexcusable.

October 15, 2018 Columnists

Rapper Kanye West hugs U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images)

ROGERS: Democrats are lying on health care

In November of every even-numbered year since at least 1970, the biggest lie in American politics has been Democrats claiming that Republicans are going to take away Social Security. Republicans learned to live in a defensive crouch and to try to avoid mentioning the words “Social Security.” Now the new lie is about health care, mostly that Republicans are going to take away coverage for preexisting conditions.

October 12, 2018 Columnists

Former U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question during a leadership summit in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

ROGERS: Democrats look, shout and storm like a mob

The Post’s Dan Balz nailed it in his recent analysis of the Democratic Party, which included the summary “They have no unifying leader and no clear message.”

October 10, 2018 Columnists

Meryl Ranzer joins other protesters gathering to demonstrate against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh near Washington Square Park on October 6, 2018 in New York.

ROGERS: Anti-Trump, anti-business O'Rourke won't beat Cruz

Washington Democrats and liberal media outlets have spent so much time on their “search-and-destroy” mission against Judge Brett Kavanaugh that they have barely been able to keep up with their love affair with Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas. O’Rourke’s race against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has become the latest heartthrob and cause of the fashionable new left.

October 3, 2018 Columnists

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) makes his final remarks as Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) listens during a debate at McFarlin Auditorium at SMU on Sept. 21, 2018 in Dallas, Texas.

ROGERS: Fate of Trump presidency is uncertain

In politics, making predictions is pointless. I always caution people against taking today’s headlines and extrapolating too far into the future. But since these are such extraordinary times, and there are cosmic shifts in the political universe, let’s do exactly that.

August 31, 2018 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to the media as he steps off Air Force One, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Charleston, W.Va.

ROGERS: Is anything different for President Trump this time?

More times than I can remember, I have thought, “Well, President Trump has done it now.” Or I have thought circumstances swirling around Trump would potentially endanger his presidency. I have always been wrong. But with the Paul Manafort convictions and the Michael Cohen plea, is anything different? Yes.

August 24, 2018 Columnists

Michael Cohen, centre, leaves Federal court, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in New York. Cohen has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud stemming from hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.

ROGERS: Trump hurts himself in fight with the Koch network

The U.S. president has another opportunity to be magnanimous, show himself to be the bigger man and to take a pass on fuelling a fight with fellow Republicans. OK, that won’t happen. But it doesn’t mean the Trump-Koch dispute that flared in recent days should be ignored.

August 11, 2018 Columnists

This combination of 2013 and 2012 file photos shows brothers David, left, and Charles Koch. (Phelan M. Ebenhack, Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP)