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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.

Donald Trump.

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The Fog of Trump is lifting

An elephant.

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Opinion

Republicans' deficit hypocrisy comes home to roost

Lindsey Graham.

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Opinion

Hey, Democrats: Awful Lindsey Graham is your friend

Mitt Romney.

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Opinion

I was wrong about Mitt Romney

President Trump.

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Opinion

Trump knew it all along

A GOP voter.

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Opinion

What would make me vote Republican again

John Kelly and President Trump.

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Opinion

John Kelly should spill the beans

A fortune teller.

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Analysis

What the midterms foretell

Larry Hogan.

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Analysis

The lessons of Larry Hogan

President Trump.

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Opinion

What Trump's immigration demagoguery reveals

President Trump.

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Opinion

What does Trump do all day?

Brett Kavanaugh.

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Opinion

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

A campaign button.

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Opinion

A lifelong conservative's lament over the Kavanaugh affair

President Trump.

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Opinion

Trump's twisted neo-aristocratism

President Trump.

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Opinion

How losing the midterms could rescue Trump's presidency

President Trump.

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Opinion

The Trump administration's latest self-contradictory trolling

President Trump in a cabinet meeting.

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Opinion

Reveal yourselves, Trump administration resisters

A MAGA hat on a map.

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Opinion

How MAGA ate my hometown

Paul Ryan.

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Opinion

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

Republican House and Senate leaders.

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Opinion

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

A Conor Lamb supporter.

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Opinion

Conor Lamb and the revenge of centrist Democrats

Paul Ryan and House Republicans.

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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.

Mitt Romney.

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Opinion

Mitt Romney is already blowing it

Trumpist tribes.

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Opinion

The Trumpistas don't care about American democracy

President Donald Trump.

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Opinion

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

Trump and the boys.

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Opinion

The incredible shrinking conservative conscience

President Donald Trump.

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Opinion

How Trump abandoned populism

President Trump.

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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

Republicans and their taxes.

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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

John Kelly.

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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