S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 7
S.E. Cupp: Dems’ risky bet on Trumpy Republicans
If you gave money to the House Majority PAC, associated with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, you probably didn’t intend for it to help back a far-right Trump defender in California’s 22nd district, who believes Trump would still be president if the 2020 votes had been “properly counted.”...
S.E. Cupp: The GOP picks performance over problem-solving
It’s often pointed out that, under the tutelage of former President Trump, the Republican Party abandoned long-held conservative orthodoxies and interests — think lowering the debt and deficit and anti-protectionism — in favor of whatever Trump just said. For the four years Trump was in office, the GOP busied itself...
S.E. Cupp: Buffalo, Uvalde and the American psyche
Over the past two weeks, we have all mourned and grieved, reeling from a double-whammy of horrific mass shootings — one in Buffalo and another in Uvalde, Texas. The first targeted a Black community, and was, according to the murderer, motivated explicitly by racism. The second, inexplicably, targeted elementary school...
S.E. Cupp: College students are in a mental health crisis
Warning: This article contains information about suicide. If you or a loved one is in need of help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. In this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, readers were treated to a lovely interview with British singer and actor Harry Styles — shot neither...
S.E. Cupp: You don’t have to be pro-choice to oppose overturning Roe
Elections have consequences, they say. Late Monday night, Politico broke what could be the most consequential result of Donald Trump’s 2016 election, posting a leaked draft of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s would-be majority opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. “Roe was egregiously wrong from...
S.E. Cupp: Who does Twitter owner Elon Musk think he is?
Like everything else in today’s era of total partisan absolutism, the news that billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk is buying Twitter landed like a giant sledgehammer, cleaving the country in two. Depending on one’s politics, the sound made by the hostile takeover was either the death knell of truth and...
S.E. Cupp: Is the New York I used to know gone for good?
As a 20- and 30-something young woman living in Manhattan some years ago, the city felt like my playground. Virtually nowhere was off-limits, too unfriendly or unsafe to visit. The Theater District for plays. The Lower East Side for live music. Harlem for soul food. The Bronx for Italian. Queens...
S.E. Cupp: Will GOP leaders excuse Marjorie Taylor Greene yet again?
How do you solve a problem like Marjorie? Even after Twitter banned Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for a fifth-strike violation of spreading false covid information in January, the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist still, inexplicably, has control of her official Twitter account. And boy is she putting...
S.E. Cupp: Was Will Smith’s slap the Oscars’ last gasp?
Hollywood can put together a great summer blockbuster, legal thriller and holiday rom-com, but they sure can’t seem to get the Oscars right. This year’s broadcast was an unmitigated disaster, and not just because of you-know-what (but we’ll get there). It’s been nearly a quarter- century since the highest rated Academy...
S.E. Cupp: Putin’s American pals
A man is known by the company he keeps. The origin of that well-worn line is a fable by Aesop called, fittingly, “The Ass and His Purchaser.” As it goes, a man brings a new donkey home, and when he sees that it chooses to sidle up next to “the...
S.E. Cupp: Herschel Walker is very gifted, and very scary — take him seriously
He had the audience enraptured. The crowd of evangelicals at Sugar Hill Church in Georgia last weekend hung on his every word. He spoke softly and with a smile, telling his personal story of finding the Lord and loving Jesus. He wove in parables and allegories that seemed both spontaneous...
S.E. Cupp: In Ukraine and around the world, cause to worry about what lies ahead for women
As heartbreaking and unimaginable images, videos and reports flood out of war-torn Ukraine, comparisons to World War II Europe are impossible to avoid. Thousands of families sleeping underground in subway stations, cramming onto outbound trains, air-raid sirens the new normal, beautiful buildings that once lit up a cosmopolitan city now...
S.E. Cupp: How Biden cleverly claimed Republican terrain
President Biden, a long-time presidential hopeful, has waited decades to give a State of the Union address, and by all accounts it went off without a hitch Tuesday night. There were history-making moments, and many others that were jarring, disorienting and downright surreal. Here we are, in 2022, in the...
S.E. Cupp: Conservatism is over. ‘Conservatives’ admit it.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, falls every year around my birthday. In fact, I turned many of my 20s and 30s while nerding out at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington at panels with people like Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg. I went because...
S.E. Cupp: Anthony Weiner’s disgraceful return to a public platform
Anthony Weiner’s message is clear: don’t call it a comeback. Well, don’t worry, I won’t. But if it’s quite all right with the man formerly known as “Carlos Danger,” I will call it gross. Disturbing. Pathetic. Revolting. How else to describe the unwelcome news that the former Democratic congressman who...
S.E. Cupp: More Dems should follow Eric Adams’ lead on crime
As President Biden prepares to meet with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to address the years-long surge in violent gun crime, he’s taking an important, if a little late, step in acknowledging what many Americans have known for some time: We have a serious problem of rising violence in...
S.E. Cupp: A memo to the covid complainers
Just this past week, covid deaths hit an 11-month high in the United States, surging 11% compared to the previous week. While cases are finally beginning to drop, an average of 2,200 people a day are still dying thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant, bringing total fatalities in our...
S.E. Cupp: The dead-end doomsday cult of Donald J. Trump
Last weekend in Florence, Ariz., supporters of former President Trump gathered to attend one of his infamous rallies, to bond with like-minded MAGA cohorts and bathe in Trump’s ill-fated promises and unhinged conspiracy theories. They got their money’s worth. Trump pushed the debunked theory that the FBI had plants among...
S.E. Cupp: The Bob Saget I remember
The year was 2005, and I was a 20-something living in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. As such, feeling hip and somewhat subversive, my friends and I looked for hip and somewhat subversive things to do. (Key word: somewhat. We all had real jobs.) When we’d heard that...
S.E. Cupp: The new right wants division, cruelty, ratings
Edmund Burke. Russell Kirk. And … Jesse Watters? One of the hosts of Fox’s “The Five,” Watters said the quiet part out loud Monday evening, when discussing President Biden’s agenda and pushback he’s getting from progressives in his party. “(D)o I feel sorry for Joe Biden? No. I work at...
S.E. Cupp: The change we wish to see in the world for 2022
For the past nearly decade, I’ve asked friends, colleagues, politicos and celebs to share their New Year’s resolutions with me and my readers. After the year we’ve had, I’m especially grateful to get just a glimpse into their fragile psyches and guarded optimism as we all head warily into 2022....
S.E. Cupp: Why they target and terrorize journalists
“Cancel Christmas.” That’s what the chilling email addressed to me read, nearly a dozen years ago, right around the holidays. The anonymous author went on to say he’d kill me coming out of Fox News, where I was working at the time. As a political commentator, I’d sadly grown accustomed...
S.E. Cupp: Fox News is selling toxic snake oil
The year is 1893 and Clark Stanley, the self-styled “Rattlesnake King,” is preparing for his big moment at the World’s Exposition in Chicago. Fairgoers have already been wowed by Otis Brothers’ elevator exhibit, George Washington Gale Ferris’ giant wheel and Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope. But they haven’t seen Stanley yet. According...
S.E. Cupp: Democrats think selling their accomplishments will keep Congress in 2022?
Less than a year out from the 2022 midterm elections, in which Democrats could lose their control of Congress, President Biden’s approval numbers are under water. The party is already facing historical headwinds, given that the controlling party usually suffers in the following midterms. Making matters worse, a number of...
S.E. Cupp: The right’s Fauci Derangement Syndrome
Soulless. Morally bankrupt. Insane? It’s hard to find the right word to describe the latest lows to which right-wing personalities and elected officials are stooping to smear and attack Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former Trump adviser. Imagine, if you dare,...
