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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod’s concerns about a second Donald Trump administration prompted him to hit back at a Republican insider during a back-and-forth exchange Friday evening that left Axelrod sarcastically remarking, “I actually took civics.”

The on-air moment happened on CNN’s “OutFront” after Axelrod expressed his worries amid reports that the Pentagon is preparing for a possible Trump order to deploy troops on Americans. Joining him in the discussion was former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), who similarly expressed fears about Trump’s threat to terminate the Constitution and surround himself with administration officials who “submit to him.”

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), discussing the beating his party took in his state with Semafor, highlighted what he sees as a liability for Democrats in this election, and going forward — something he sees as comparable to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) when he attacked "childless cat ladies" and alienated huge swathes of the female electorate.

That specifically is with young men, whom, he argued, are given no indication by Democrats that the party values including them, and has an arrogant moniker of its own for them.

A Washington Post opinion columnist sounded the alarm Friday afternoon over what she called a "5-alarm fire" coming from a leading contender to become President-elect Donald Trump's next attorney general.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said Thursday that the Executive Branch should be "under the direction of the president."

The message being sent to Democratic Party leadership in the hours after voters propelled Donald Trump to a second White House term has been clear, a political reporter said on CNN: “Burn it all down.”

The bleak message to party leaders soul-searching after Tuesday night’s bruising defeat came Friday evening during a discussion on CNN’s “The Situation Room” revolving around Nancy Pelosi’s statement in which she blamed Biden for not bowing out of the race sooner.

A man has been arrested for threatening Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Politico reported Friday.

“I am deeply worried about Congressional member security and the significant lack thereof when we are in the district,” wrote Moskowitz in a social media post disclosing the incident. “Regardless of our political affiliations or differences, we all have families we want to keep safe.”

Three firebrand Republican senators will chair major committees when the chamber returns in January, according to a report.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will chair the chamber's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, CNN reported. He's already the ranking member of that committee.

The resistance to President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration is starting to show signs of life, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters, who declared that the 2028 presidential race has already begun.

“The resistance is coming into focus,” Watters said Friday on “The Five,” adding that the opposition during Trump’s first term included Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace welcomed foreign policy experts on her Friday show to discuss the future of international relations in the era of Donald Trump. Among the comments was that Trump doesn't even know what a "strongman" is.

She showed a clip of Trump talking about some of the authoritarian leaders he admires.

Former President Donald Trump proclaimed Friday that he has "no intention of selling" his shares in Truth Social, the online platform he created as a Twitter clone, and any rumors to the contrary are "false." Much like his former hotel in Washington, D.C. that he owned going into his first presidential term, this poses enormous corruption issues for his second, New York Times reporter Russ Buettner told CNN's Jake Tapper.

The problem, Buettner said, is Trump once again has a private backchannel through which anyone wanting to curry favor with him can spend money — and it's even more blatant this time, he added, because the entire business as it exists doesn't seem to have any legitimate purpose.

Donald Trump's critics on both the left and the right were hoping that Election Night 2024 would bring a repudiation of the former president.

Instead, Trump's detractors — from Democratic strategist James Carville to author Mary Trump (his niece) to conservative attorney George Conway — were horrified when Trump enjoyed a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris despite awaiting sentencing on 34 criminal charges and promising to rule like an autocrat if given a second term.

According to investigations director Miranda Green at Floodlights News, if there's one thing that the right does exceptionally well, it's disseminating misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

The Metric network of a "pink-slime news operation" delivered far-right-framed information while lifting up "the voices of right-leaning think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and SBA Pro-Life," she said.

Much finger-pointing and theorizing has exploded among both pundits and within the Democratic Party following Vice President Kamala Harris' failure to win the 2024 presidential election — but there's one aspect that's hardly been mentioned, and yet everyone has at the back of their mind, wrote Alexandra Petri for The Washington Post.

In a blistering, satirical column, she outlined an issue that has become a real problem for Democrats: the constant, inescapable string of text messages and emails from the Harris campaign and associated PACs begging for money but saying nothing worthwhile. It's something even running mate Tim Walz joked about in his campaign farewell speech on Friday.

One of Donald Trump's oldest allies is warning him about MAGA charlatans who will try to infiltrate his administration.

Writing on his website, Roger Stone sent a message to those building out the new Trump administration to be mindful of those who were quick to abandon him — and throw him under the bus.