David French
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
NYT Columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University. Married to @nancyfrench.bsky.social.
Iraq vet, Grizzlies fan, born in War Eagle Country and raised in Big Blue Nation.
Iraq vet, Grizzlies fan, born in War Eagle Country and raised in Big Blue Nation.
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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I think @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social is a lot more realistic than some Democratic pols.
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Opinion | What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror
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January 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I think @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social is a lot more realistic than some Democratic pols.
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Protests make MAGA mad. Journalism makes MAGA mad. Accountability makes MAGA mad. And the anger keeps building until a single sentence starts to spread across the length and breadth of Trump’s base: “Invoke the Insurrection Act.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Opinion | What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror
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January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Protests make MAGA mad. Journalism makes MAGA mad. Accountability makes MAGA mad. And the anger keeps building until a single sentence starts to spread across the length and breadth of Trump’s base: “Invoke the Insurrection Act.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Take off their masks. End their immunities. Limit their jurisdiction. Restrain their tactics. All of this can be done through legislation without inhibiting humane immigration enforcement. If it’s done correctly, legislative reform can lead to greater accountability across the whole of government.
Opinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe.’ Three Columnists on Minneapolis.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Take off their masks. End their immunities. Limit their jurisdiction. Restrain their tactics. All of this can be done through legislation without inhibiting humane immigration enforcement. If it’s done correctly, legislative reform can lead to greater accountability across the whole of government.
How do you preserve the free world when America goes Rogue? On Tuesday, Mark Carney provided an answer.
He called Donald Trump’s bluff. Trump wants subjects, but he’s getting rivals, and the American people will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
He called Donald Trump’s bluff. Trump wants subjects, but he’s getting rivals, and the American people will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
Opinion | The Carney Doctrine
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January 23, 2026 at 4:39 AM
How do you preserve the free world when America goes Rogue? On Tuesday, Mark Carney provided an answer.
He called Donald Trump’s bluff. Trump wants subjects, but he’s getting rivals, and the American people will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
He called Donald Trump’s bluff. Trump wants subjects, but he’s getting rivals, and the American people will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
President Trump is stress-testing American law, and the law is failing the test. The health of the American experiment rests far more on the integrity of any given American president than we realized. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
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January 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
President Trump is stress-testing American law, and the law is failing the test. The health of the American experiment rests far more on the integrity of any given American president than we realized. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
If we break our alliances, we are smaller and weaker. If we break them for pride and power and greed, then we don’t just break an alliance, we break our own character. We diminish ourselves in every way that matters, and no amount of newly sovereign frozen ground can obscure our national shame.
Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America
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January 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
If we break our alliances, we are smaller and weaker. If we break them for pride and power and greed, then we don’t just break an alliance, we break our own character. We diminish ourselves in every way that matters, and no amount of newly sovereign frozen ground can obscure our national shame.
That's well said. Courage should shame the cowards.
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 AM
That's well said. Courage should shame the cowards.
Donald Trump is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States.
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Opinion | Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States.
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"It was Christ’s humble birth that set the stage. It was the first lesson in a series: to oppress others is to oppress Christ, to hate others is to hate Christ, and to love your enemies can be the most dangerous and revolutionary act of them all." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
Opinion | Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
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December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"It was Christ’s humble birth that set the stage. It was the first lesson in a series: to oppress others is to oppress Christ, to hate others is to hate Christ, and to love your enemies can be the most dangerous and revolutionary act of them all." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social understands that to oppress others in the name of your God or religion is to refuse the command of imitatio Christi. He also understands that to engage in true imitatio Christi is to antagonize those who patrol the boundaries to keep heretics out.
Funny how that works.
Funny how that works.
Opinion | Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
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December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social understands that to oppress others in the name of your God or religion is to refuse the command of imitatio Christi. He also understands that to engage in true imitatio Christi is to antagonize those who patrol the boundaries to keep heretics out.
Funny how that works.
Funny how that works.
Fundamentalist faiths make religion dangerous to others, but Christianity properly lived is dangerous to Christians. It’s dangerous to people who refuse to hate those they are told to hate, to people who refuse to oppress, to conquer, to exploit — even when they’re told to conquer in the name of God
Opinion | Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
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December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fundamentalist faiths make religion dangerous to others, but Christianity properly lived is dangerous to Christians. It’s dangerous to people who refuse to hate those they are told to hate, to people who refuse to oppress, to conquer, to exploit — even when they’re told to conquer in the name of God
Why the heroes of Bondi Beach mattered so much:
"The presence of evil doesn’t break people. From a young age, we learn that there are wolves in our midst. It is the absence of courage that plunges us into crisis." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
"The presence of evil doesn’t break people. From a young age, we learn that there are wolves in our midst. It is the absence of courage that plunges us into crisis." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | The Righteousness of Ahmed el Amhed
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December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Why the heroes of Bondi Beach mattered so much:
"The presence of evil doesn’t break people. From a young age, we learn that there are wolves in our midst. It is the absence of courage that plunges us into crisis." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
"The presence of evil doesn’t break people. From a young age, we learn that there are wolves in our midst. It is the absence of courage that plunges us into crisis." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
“Even worse, parents and kids learned together to use their phones. We all experienced these new technologies at the same time, and we often behaved no better than our teenage sons and daughters. Our kids were taking notes as social media broke our brains and hardened our hearts.”
Opinion | What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
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December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Even worse, parents and kids learned together to use their phones. We all experienced these new technologies at the same time, and we often behaved no better than our teenage sons and daughters. Our kids were taking notes as social media broke our brains and hardened our hearts.”
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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a former Army Reserve major who got a Bronze Star for 2007 service as a squadron judge-advocate, is "still haunted by decisions I made in Iraq."
"But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect."
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"But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect."
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Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law
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December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a former Army Reserve major who got a Bronze Star for 2007 service as a squadron judge-advocate, is "still haunted by decisions I made in Iraq."
"But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect."
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"But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect."
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"The end of the Trump era is coming into view, and too much attention is focused on what Republicans think of Trump and too little is focused on what Republicans think of one another." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
Opinion | What Do Republicans Have to Fear? Ask Tennessee.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"The end of the Trump era is coming into view, and too much attention is focused on what Republicans think of Trump and too little is focused on what Republicans think of one another." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
It was predicted that Ukraine would collapse in hours or days, but it has stood strong for years, inflicting devastating losses on Russia. It would be an intolerable and catastrophic failure if the Trump administration delivers Putin a victory through diplomacy that he could not achieve in war.
Opinion | ‘We Are Going to Have to Fight Three Wars’
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November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It was predicted that Ukraine would collapse in hours or days, but it has stood strong for years, inflicting devastating losses on Russia. It would be an intolerable and catastrophic failure if the Trump administration delivers Putin a victory through diplomacy that he could not achieve in war.
"Trump has put the military in an impossible situation. He’s making its most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts, and he’s burdening the consciences of soldiers who serve under his command. " www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
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November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Trump has put the military in an impossible situation. He’s making its most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts, and he’s burdening the consciences of soldiers who serve under his command. " www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
"Authoritarians want you to follow their will, not the law; they value personal loyalty over party loyalty ... Competent and conscientious people tend to often shun such an environment, but corrupt opportunists love it. They wallow in it. It is, after, all the best place for them to thrive."
Opinion | The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Authoritarians want you to follow their will, not the law; they value personal loyalty over party loyalty ... Competent and conscientious people tend to often shun such an environment, but corrupt opportunists love it. They wallow in it. It is, after, all the best place for them to thrive."
To quote Pope Leo, “justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life” ought to be the touchstones of our public engagement. There is another spiritual victory to be won — this time over the forces of hatred, division and cruelty in these United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
To quote Pope Leo, “justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life” ought to be the touchstones of our public engagement. There is another spiritual victory to be won — this time over the forces of hatred, division and cruelty in these United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
"I shudder to think of the outright criminality that Trump and his allies could resort to during the 2026 midterms, much less the 2028 presidential election. One doesn’t have to imagine wild fantasies of a Trump third term to imagine systemic abuses of power to suppress or miscount dissenting votes"
Opinion | Pardon Me. I Am Not Done Committing Crimes.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"I shudder to think of the outright criminality that Trump and his allies could resort to during the 2026 midterms, much less the 2028 presidential election. One doesn’t have to imagine wild fantasies of a Trump third term to imagine systemic abuses of power to suppress or miscount dissenting votes"
"A movement, especially one that verges on an outright cult of personality, is defined by its leader, not by its rank and file. And when the leader is lawless and depraved, then efforts to contain his influence while preserving his power are doomed to fail." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
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November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"A movement, especially one that verges on an outright cult of personality, is defined by its leader, not by its rank and file. And when the leader is lawless and depraved, then efforts to contain his influence while preserving his power are doomed to fail." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
If there is a word that describes the second Trump administration, it’s brazen. While I certainly hold open the possibility that dark deeds are being done in secret, one thing that is remarkable is how open and obvious he is with his self-dealing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Can Do No Wrong
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November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If there is a word that describes the second Trump administration, it’s brazen. While I certainly hold open the possibility that dark deeds are being done in secret, one thing that is remarkable is how open and obvious he is with his self-dealing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
David French (on MSNBC just now), in one sentence, reminds us that human beings are not naturally equipped to confront authoritarians, and what is now needed from us all:
"Courage is going to preserve this republic - - and 'only' courage."
David French (on MSNBC just now), in one sentence, reminds us that human beings are not naturally equipped to confront authoritarians, and what is now needed from us all:
"Courage is going to preserve this republic - - and 'only' courage."
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
David French (on MSNBC just now), in one sentence, reminds us that human beings are not naturally equipped to confront authoritarians, and what is now needed from us all:
"Courage is going to preserve this republic - - and 'only' courage."
David French (on MSNBC just now), in one sentence, reminds us that human beings are not naturally equipped to confront authoritarians, and what is now needed from us all:
"Courage is going to preserve this republic - - and 'only' courage."