When The Going Gets Rough, ‘Ideas And Persuasion’ Are All We’ve Got To Take Down The Left
An internecine debate about conservative support for Trump raises important questions about the role of the pundit and the purpose of debating ideas.
How Is The Culture War Fought?
Jonah Goldberg’s response is more evidence of the reordering of the coalitional hierarchy of priorities within the American right.
Marco Rubio Blows With The Prevailing Trumpian Wind
Marco Rubio really, really wants to be president. He wants it badly enough to blow with the prevailing wind, and the prevailing wind comes from Trump.
This Fall, California Voters Could Decide Whether To Split Their State In Three
Some 600,000 Californians have signed a petition that would allow a vote on whether to split the state into three.
Andrew Cuomo Is Moving Left And Getting Woke
Faced with Cynthia Nixon’s primary challenge, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is growing more progressive by the day.
Is Mueller’s Trump Investigation A Clinton Impeachment Rerun?
If the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s lawyer is about what we think it’s about, we could be living through a rerun of the Clinton impeachment crisis.
Rich Lowry Gets Stampeded Onto The Trump Train
Rich Lowry just wrote off the NeverTrump movement as ‘deluded.’ Yes, the same Rich Lowry who compiled the ‘Against Trump’ issue of National Review.
Americans Didn’t Elect GOP Majorities To Live Like Democrats Are In Charge
On the omnibus, on the Second Amendment, on border safety—almost every issue—the GOP continues to betray the American people.
Why Democrats Should Pay Attention To The ‘Ecomodernist’ Running For California Governor
In a national political climate ruled by tribalism, the long-shot candidate for governor of California has no tribe.
Hillary Is Right, We Do Care What Our Husbands Think
Conservative women, as well as other right-leaning minorities, are dangerous exactly because they prove the triumph of individuality over group determinism.
Democrats Should Beg Hillary Clinton To Stop Smearing Trump Supporters
Clinton continues to show disdain for average Americans who don’t think like she does, and that’s a major problem for Democrats.
Donald Trump Sells Out The Right On Guns
Just as the anti-gun media narrative on school shootings was falling apart, Donald Trump held a televised summit with lawmakers and revived it.
Sorry, But Conservatism Isn’t Dead Just Yet
Every time someone tells us that conservatism is in its death throes, conservatism makes a miraculous comeback. Heralding its demise is premature.
Republicans Won’t Save Themselves By Destroying Their Party
Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes see Donald Trump and his political coalition as uniquely dangerous, instead of as symptomatic of crumbling institutions and a declining civic impulse.
North Korea Fanboying Is Why We Can’t Trust The Left
The media’s weird praise for North Korea over the weekend is a timely reminder of why we just can’t trust the Left with power.
The GOP Budget Deal Throws Fiscal Sanity Out The Overton Window
President Trump signed a deal to avert a government shutdown for another two years by basically giving the Democrats all the spending they wanted.
The GOP Base Won’t Boycott Over Trump, Because Trump Isn’t The Problem
The real motives of Rauch, Wittes, and NeverTrumpers have nothing to do with pragmatic politics in response to a ‘dangerous’ president or concern about the rule of law.
What Populism Is And Why It’s So Compelling
Donald Trump gestured at something lacking in the two-party system of the past generation and, whether he meant to or not, began the shift to a new system of conservatism.
Coming Out As A Republican To My Democrat Family Went Worse Than Coming Out Gay
I reached my threshold where no amount of hypothetical Republican bigotry or greed could approach the magnitude of hypocrisy, corruption, or criminality I saw rotting Democrats.
This All-Republican Congress Avoids Tough Choices Now, Meaning Worse Choices Later
Congress still refuses to eat its policy spinach, following the path of least resistance in making easy choices rather than tough ones.
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