Scott Galupo

Contributing Writer

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.

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Scott Galupo

The Fog of Trump is lifting

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Opinion

Republicans' deficit hypocrisy comes home to roost

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Opinion

Hey, Democrats: Awful Lindsey Graham is your friend

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Opinion

I was wrong about Mitt Romney

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Opinion

Trump knew it all along

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Opinion

What would make me vote Republican again

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Opinion

John Kelly should spill the beans

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Analysis

What the midterms foretell

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Analysis

The lessons of Larry Hogan

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Opinion

What Trump's immigration demagoguery reveals

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Opinion

What does Trump do all day?

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Opinion

Brett Kavanaugh is a beer-drinking bro and a coastal elite

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Opinion

A lifelong conservative's lament over the Kavanaugh affair

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Opinion

Trump's twisted neo-aristocratism

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Opinion

How losing the midterms could rescue Trump's presidency

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Opinion

The Trump administration's latest self-contradictory trolling

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Opinion

Reveal yourselves, Trump administration resisters

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Opinion

How MAGA ate my hometown

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Opinion

Paul Ryan's retirement marks the end of the sunny conservative

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Opinion

In the 'grain glitch,' the GOP is reaping what it sowed

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Opinion

Conor Lamb and the revenge of centrist Democrats

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Opinion

Why is the GOP growing a spine over steel?

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

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Opinion

China is gleefully trashing Western liberal democracy. It's nonsense.

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Opinion

Mitt Romney is already blowing it

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Opinion

The Trumpistas don't care about American democracy

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Opinion

How the left's fevered speculation about Trump's mental health played right into his hands

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Opinion

The incredible shrinking conservative conscience

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Opinion

How Trump abandoned populism

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Opinion

What Sunday School taught me about Trump

Mitt Romney leaves Donald Trump at his New Jersey golf course in November 2016.

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Opinion

Trump is right about Romney

President Obama kisses House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after signing the Affordable Health Care for America Act on March 23, 2010.

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Analysis

Nancy Pelosi was right about ObamaCare. So was Ted Cruz.

Opinion

The Keurig contretemps

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Opinion

The lunacy of Republicans' post-bloodbath focus on tax cuts

Vice President Pence and Virginia's Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.

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Opinion

Why Republicans must abandon the Republican Party

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Opinion

The corruption of John Kelly

President Trump and Vice President Pence.

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Opinion

The silver lining of Trump's rank cynicism