Matt Welch

51% of Americans self-identify as an independent rather than picking the side of a Democrat and Republican. And if you think about it even for a half a second, it makes total sense because Democrats and Republicans really suck.

They are very, very, very bad at what they do, which is like attempt to govern or manage the monopoly on the use of force through extracted taxpayer money and other libertarian things. For example, of the ways that governance sucks, I know you people live in Washington, D.C., so you might have heard that they're doing the annual Cromnibus thing right now or talking about it.

They are very, very, very bad at what they do, which is like attempt to govern or manage the monopoly on the use of force through extracted taxpayer money and other libertarian things. For example, of the ways that governance sucks, I know you people live in Washington, D.C., so you might have heard that they're doing the annual Cromnibus thing right now or talking about it.

They are very, very, very bad at what they do, which is like attempt to govern or manage the monopoly on the use of force through extracted taxpayer money and other libertarian things. For example, of the ways that governance sucks, I know you people live in Washington, D.C., so you might have heard that they're doing the annual Cromnibus thing right now or talking about it.

This is a tweet from today from former Never Trump heartthrob or occasional Mitt Romney, who I think Tim worked for at some point.

This is a tweet from today from former Never Trump heartthrob or occasional Mitt Romney, who I think Tim worked for at some point.

This is a tweet from today from former Never Trump heartthrob or occasional Mitt Romney, who I think Tim worked for at some point.

says what does President Trump want Republicans to do vote for the continuing resolution or shut down government absent direction confusion reigns can anyone spot the problem with that let's just like think about it for a second this is Trump is not the president this is the job for Congress Mitt Romney is in that body and yet they don't do things like pass basic budgets they wait

says what does President Trump want Republicans to do vote for the continuing resolution or shut down government absent direction confusion reigns can anyone spot the problem with that let's just like think about it for a second this is Trump is not the president this is the job for Congress Mitt Romney is in that body and yet they don't do things like pass basic budgets they wait

says what does President Trump want Republicans to do vote for the continuing resolution or shut down government absent direction confusion reigns can anyone spot the problem with that let's just like think about it for a second this is Trump is not the president this is the job for Congress Mitt Romney is in that body and yet they don't do things like pass basic budgets they wait

for some scary president to sort of tell them or president-elect to tell them what to do and they've been doing this for year after year after year when's the last time peter suderman that they used the congressional budget act to pass their 12 appropriations bills there is a punchline to that uh that story i'm sure but it's basically never they don't do it anymore it's not something that happens you look around anywhere you live or at least anywhere i live uh tends to be totally misgoverned by horrible democratic administrations i live in

for some scary president to sort of tell them or president-elect to tell them what to do and they've been doing this for year after year after year when's the last time peter suderman that they used the congressional budget act to pass their 12 appropriations bills there is a punchline to that uh that story i'm sure but it's basically never they don't do it anymore it's not something that happens you look around anywhere you live or at least anywhere i live uh tends to be totally misgoverned by horrible democratic administrations i live in

for some scary president to sort of tell them or president-elect to tell them what to do and they've been doing this for year after year after year when's the last time peter suderman that they used the congressional budget act to pass their 12 appropriations bills there is a punchline to that uh that story i'm sure but it's basically never they don't do it anymore it's not something that happens you look around anywhere you live or at least anywhere i live uh tends to be totally misgoverned by horrible democratic administrations i live in

Brooklyn, New York, where if you drive down the street, you can hide an entire Volkswagen in the potholes out in front of your street, and everyone is taxed up the yin-yang, and nothing works. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., these are not well-governed places.

Brooklyn, New York, where if you drive down the street, you can hide an entire Volkswagen in the potholes out in front of your street, and everyone is taxed up the yin-yang, and nothing works. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., these are not well-governed places.

Brooklyn, New York, where if you drive down the street, you can hide an entire Volkswagen in the potholes out in front of your street, and everyone is taxed up the yin-yang, and nothing works. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., these are not well-governed places.

So it's a rational thing to not want to collude with or somehow join one of those teams in spending your money really badly to do bad things and violate other people's rights and do it worse and worse year after year. But it's not to say that the inverse of what we're talking about is true. It's not me and Nick or Libertarians General saying it's bad to be in politics.

So it's a rational thing to not want to collude with or somehow join one of those teams in spending your money really badly to do bad things and violate other people's rights and do it worse and worse year after year. But it's not to say that the inverse of what we're talking about is true. It's not me and Nick or Libertarians General saying it's bad to be in politics.

So it's a rational thing to not want to collude with or somehow join one of those teams in spending your money really badly to do bad things and violate other people's rights and do it worse and worse year after year. But it's not to say that the inverse of what we're talking about is true. It's not me and Nick or Libertarians General saying it's bad to be in politics.

There are perfectly good people on all sides in politics. And I'm glad that there are. I'm glad that there are people who are going to be doing good work in the Trump administration, even though Lord knows I didn't vote for the Trump administration to go in.