Steve Berman

Opinion Contributor

Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

COCAINE MITCH: Having His GOP Cake and Eating It Too | Steve Berman

COCAINE MITCH: Having His GOP Cake and Eating It Too | Steve Berman

You can look a long time for a more savvy political operator than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and you won’t find one. If you think Donald Trump engineered the Supreme Court conservative majority, you’re wrong. If you think the current red trickle was because of Trump’s misfiring on candidate picks, well you’d be kind …

KENTUCKY ABORTS: Republicans Overplayed and Democracy Answered | Steve Berman

KENTUCKY ABORTS: Republicans Overplayed and Democracy Answered | Steve Berman

Why did a simple measure in Kentucky to amend the state constitution to add one sentence fail? “To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion?” was on the ballot in a state where five of six House districts …

SEEING RED: Predictions From My Crystal Ball | Steve Berman

SEEING RED: Predictions From My Crystal Ball | Steve Berman

Salena Zito wrote a Saturday piece in the NY Post “why midterm voters will put Republicans in power across the US.” In interview after interview with average Americans of all political stripes, the same themes emerge: inflation, jobs, crime, drug use, homelessness, leadership and connection with voters. One voter, an immigrant, 65-year-old restaurant owner Emerencia Torma in …

ONE-HORSE JOE: Nobody’s Listening to His Democracy Plea | Steve Berman

ONE-HORSE JOE: Nobody’s Listening to His Democracy Plea | Steve Berman

There are two dynamics going on this midterm cycle. One is that the GOP is about to scoop up both houses of Congress if Democrats don’t rise up on election day. The trends all point to momentum for the GOP, and momentum moves undecided voters from the edge to the winner’s side. Democrats are simultaneously looking …

BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman

BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman

You like the movie “Aliens”? I do. Besides masterful performances from heroine Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the late Bill Paxton (Hudson), Michael Biehn (Hicks), Lance Henriksen (Bishop, the “synthetic life form”), Paul Reiser (Burke)—and the rest of the cast—and being one of the few examples of a movie sequel that’s better than its original (“The …

SCORE: Black Herschel Voters Rejecting Dems Character Slam | Steve Berman

SCORE: Black Herschel Voters Rejecting Dems Character Slam | Steve Berman

I’ve been ruminating about writing a second look at Walker for a while now. I know that it will trigger a large segment of my readers (many of you relish having your triggers pulled by me; so be it). But here’s the facts. Herschel Walker always had a good chance of winning. I wrote as much in …

ABRAMS: So Suppressed | Steve Berman

ABRAMS: So Suppressed | Steve Berman

President of United Earth Stacey Abrams has consistently claimed that Georgia suppresses voters, because otherwise she’d be governor. Even while pretending to deny being an election denier, as she did in last week’s debate against Gov. Brian Kemp, Abrams holds that Georgia has a systemic problem with keeping people from voting. It would be a good argument if it …

LESSONS: 1202 Fahrenheit and Why We Don’t Learn | Steve Berman

LESSONS: 1202 Fahrenheit and Why We Don’t Learn | Steve Berman

Some lessons are quicker than others. It took Americans two hours and four minutes to learn. That’s the time separating American Airlines flight 11 takeoff from Boston and the crash of flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We learned that hijackers can’t be assumed to offer a bargain for the lives of passengers. And now it’s …