Scott Galupo
Scott Galupo is a freelance writer living in Virginia. In addition to The Week, he blogs for U.S. News and reviews live music for The Washington Post. He was formerly a senior contributor to the American Conservative and staff writer for The Washington Times. He was also an aide to Rep. John Boehner. He lives with his wife and two children and writes about politics to support his guitar habit.
Latest articles by Scott Galupo
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Republicans' deficit hypocrisy comes home to roost
opinion Have Republicans fully reckoned with the reality that they can no longer cry wolf on the deficit?
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Hey, Democrats: Awful Lindsey Graham is your friend
opinion His cynicism is a feature, not a flaw
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I was wrong about Mitt Romney
opinion He's proving himself a far braver politician than I suspected he was during the Republican primaries of 2008 and 2012
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Trump knew it all along
opinion Everyone laughed when Trump said he took the virus seriously back in March. Now it's not so funny.
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What would make me vote Republican again
opinion I could see myself pulling the lever for a Republican candidate if he or she satisfied the following five criteria
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John Kelly should spill the beans
opinion The outgoing White House chief of staff must tell the whole, ugly, unmitigated truth about working for President Trump
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What the midterms foretell
The Explainer What do the 2018 results tell us about 2020 — and beyond?
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The lessons of Larry Hogan
The Explainer Maybe it pays to be a RINO, after all
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What Trump's immigration demagoguery reveals
opinion He's desperate. And he knows he's going to lose.
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What does Trump do all day?
opinion Donald Trump makes the presidency look easy. It's not.
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Brett Kavanaugh is a beer-drinking bro and a coastal elite
opinion Do we hate the elite — or secretly envy them?
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A lifelong conservative's lament over the Kavanaugh affair
opinion I've been out on the Trumpist wing of the GOP for years. But even the traditional remnants of the party are dead to me now.
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Trump's twisted neo-aristocratism
opinion No one is "born" for the Supreme Court
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How losing the midterms could rescue Trump's presidency
opinion A Democratic Congress could save the Trump presidency — just not the way he thinks
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The Trump administration's latest self-contradictory trolling
opinion Trump reportedly might sanction Chinese officials for detaining Muslims. That's … ironic.
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Reveal yourselves, Trump administration resisters
opinion Shame on the anonymous "resistance" inside the Trump White House. It's time to come out of the shadows.
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How MAGA ate my hometown
opinion The Tea Partiers were Trumpists all along
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Paul Ryan's retirement marks the end of the sunny conservative
opinion Here's what history will remember about the outgoing House speaker
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In the 'grain glitch,' the GOP is reaping what it sowed
opinion The GOP has spent years refusing to help Democrats fix ObamaCare. Do they really expect Democrats to help them fix their tax bill?
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Conor Lamb and the revenge of centrist Democrats
opinion And what is a centrist Democrat, anyway?
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Why is the GOP growing a spine over steel?
opinion The GOP enables so much Trumpian awfulness. But they'll stand up to him over tariffs?!
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China is gleefully trashing Western liberal democracy. It's nonsense.
opinion China's Xi Jinping sees himself at the center of a renewed great-power game. He's succeeding — but not because democracy is broken.
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Mitt Romney is already blowing it
opinion On the disappointing pusillanimity of Mitt Romney
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The Trumpistas don't care about American democracy
opinion They care only about their own tribe
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