B. Jay Cooper

Total 146 Posts

Marion, MA, USA.

Former deputy White House press secretary to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Also headed communications offices at the RNC, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Yale University.

Opinion

United States – The new nearly normal.

4 min read

Things are not back to “normal” in this not-quite-post pandemic moment.

Opinion

Oys! and Yos!

5 min read

The Screaming Moderate occasionally hands out awards for Yos! and Oys!, celebrating those individuals who do good deeds (Yo!) and bad ones (Oy!). The Committee on Yos! and Oys! meets when it feels like it.

Opinion

RIP GOP.

7 min read

It’s not often you can predict a death with precision. But this is one time: The Republican Party will breathe its last on Wednesday.

Opinion

Tucker Carlson. Seriously?

4 min read

In short, Tucker Carlson is nuts and Trump supporters weren’t to be taken seriously.

Opinion

Justice today... and tomorrow?

4 min read

The hope, after the guilty verdict in George Floyd’s death, is that it is a major step in the evolution of social justice. That is the hope.

Opinion

Trump acts like the future of the GOP. Is he?

4 min read

Former President Donald J. Trump doesn’t need to form a new political party. He already has one, and he is trying to put the finishing touches on his takeover.

Opinion

Random(ish) thoughts.

3 min read

Less Trump, more peace? B. Jay Cooper on his new life without Donald Trump’s every minute of lies and opinion about everything.