Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.
Joined November 2013
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Jun 13
DOJ bends over backwards to help make sure ICE can swiftly deport this spouse of a US citizen with a 6-year-old American son. Our policies are not in the interest of Americans. Bizarre and cruel
BIA Publishes Decisions -- Matter of HERRERA-NUNEZ, 29 I&N Dec. 691 (BIA 2026); Matter of HERRERA-NUNEZ, 29 I&N Dec. 695 (BIA 2026) –
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
WTF!!!!!
Trump is f-cking using Honor Guards at a UFC event on the Lincoln Memorial.
No this is NOT ok. Don’t you dare call yourself a “patriot” while supporting this crap.
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Real America's Voice host Grant Stinchfield thinks the left sabotaged Trump's work on the Reflecting Pool:
"President Trump fixes the Reflecting Pool and a week later it's green again, loaded with algae… Sabotage… Vandalism? I believe it is. The left can't stand Trump, American greatness, and his quest to make DC beautiful again. What a shame!"
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Russian tools everywhere
Is it possible to be more of a clown
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AKA murder
"The blunt fact is the president is killing people with no legal justification. There is no American war against Venezuela or against factions within Venezuela. There is no threat to the United States from Venezuela that would justify the military’s use of lethal force."
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Russian tool speaks
Jun 12
The evidence Tulsi released today proves that Mitt Romney is a neocon shill who should not be trusted in the GOP.
Isn’t it interesting the entire Democrat party (and uniparty shills like Romney) and the media and intel community tried to paint @DNIGabbard as a Russian asset? Meanwhile they were the ones trying to destroy US foreign policy using Russia as a scapegoat. All in the name of power… gross.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Jun 12
Idaho adopted no-excuse mail-in voting in 1972. Washington did it in 1974. California in 1978. Iowa in 1990. Arizona, Wyoming and Vermont in 1991. Nebraska in 1997. Oregon in 1998. Wisconsin and Florida did it in 2001. NC in 2002. Ohio in 2005. Georgia, Illinois, and NJ in 2006.
Jun 10
I’m a Trumper because I think people should vote in person (or have a reason if they don’t)? This was standard pretty much everywhere in America before Trump
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
I kinda comprehend that there is no bottom with these classless, thoughtless grifters, but I’m still surprised when I see it so openly.
These are pathetic people. And they dishonor us all with every thing they do.
Jun 12
UFC has become a global phenomenon by embracing values that resonate far beyond the Octagon: excellence, discipline, opportunity, and meritocracy.
Proud to launch a new Sports Diplomacy partnership with @UFC and grateful to host @DanaWhite for the signing of our MOU.
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And enabled by RFK Junior. Beyond despicable.
Her last-gasp attempt to help the Russians
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Donald Trump will be taking revenge on the Kennedy Center for as long as there is breath in his body.
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Apparently, they teach lying
Jun 12
Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?
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This is embarrassing for everyone involved.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Oh my god. A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after being released by DHS in the middle of the winter and far away from where they lived.
It’s happened again:
A migrant was released from jail (charges dropped) and picked up by ICE.
ICE decides not to deport.
ICE drops migrant off far from home.
Migrant dies in the cold.
Manner of death: Homicide.
Nearly identical to Buffalo case.
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RFK Junior, Russian tool
Thank you, @DNIGabbard, for exposing U.S. funded biolabs around the world. The American people deserve the truth.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Please don’t judge the schools of my home state of South Dakota by the former governor.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point
KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic
(El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)
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This is evil…
Jun 12
It’s obvious that the revoking of the legal status of 530,000 Immigrants is all about racism and not whether they came here the right way.
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This is a bottomless pit of corruption, large and small.
Every aspect of the presidency is being treated by @POTUS and his family as an opportunity to cash in.
No one has ever seen anything like it! cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/…
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And so classy
So unifying.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Doug Burgum is a great example of how Trump turns everyone around him into a painfully sycophantic hack. When Burgum ran for president in 2024, he seemed like a reasonably serious traditional conservative. Now he's on TV saying extraordinarily silly things all the time.
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Burgum: "President Trump won the war militarily. Then he won the war economically ... diplomatically, militarily, economically -- three ways to win a war. Trump won all three of them."
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We are the third world now.
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