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Tag: Donald Trump
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Renee Good Endangered Her Life—and Yours
Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too.
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Hogwarts from Hell: D.C.’s Deep State High School
An interconnected web of deep state actors all emanate from the same exclusive Washington, D.C. high schools.
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Trump Avoids Neocon Pitfalls in Venezuela
“Democracy” is clearly not the main issue in Venezuela—nor should it be.
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Maduro’s Fall Could Save Lives in America
A more cooperative government in Venezuela offers America the hope that fewer criminal migrants, like Tren de Aragua gang members and the killer of Laken Riley, will plague her cities.
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Trump’s Biggest Challenge With Venezuela Is Domestic
As the Trump administration takes on the challenges presented by its operation in Venezuela, the most formidable one may be getting Republicans to understand it.
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In Defense of ‘Pax Trumpiana’
The arrest and detention of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro could well be the beginning of a new international order based on realpolitik and the centuries-old “law of nations.”
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Trump’s Second First Year Shows What’s Possible in American Politics
Trump has shown much greater zeal in delivering progress on immigration, anti-wokeness, and trade than he ever did in the 2010s. There have been serious gains in right-wing policy in just the first year.
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A Diplomatic Revolution
Trump’s move to decouple America from Europe’s effete ruling class has been the international event of the year.
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The U.S. Should Ban More Eurolosers Like Thierry Breton
European whining about visa bans should embolden the Trump administration to go further in enforcing America First policies.
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The Year in Passings
Some of the notable passings in 2025 make it a year of leaving wisdom and mystery behind.
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Nigeria’s Troubles Are Constitutional
Intervention in a country that lacks a reliable understanding of what it is makes little sense and can do very little good.
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Reiner Comment Hysteria Is Really Just Elite Exasperation
The performative shock of establishment elites to Trump’s comments on the death of Rob Reiner betrays their fear of losing cultural influence.
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A MAGA Christmas
In reminding us to be grateful for the sacrifice of those who came before us, the 2025 White House Christmas display also invokes gratitude to the Author of all our blessings.
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The Tsunami of Printed Money Won’t Help ‘Affordability’
The inflation caused by increased federal spending will only make life more unaffordable than it already is.
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JD Vance Gets America’s Creed and Heritage Right
The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions.
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Wokeness Isn’t Dead
The idols of the current year are very far from being smashed to pieces and it won’t be journalists or intellectuals who finally manage it.
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The Self-Indulgent Trump Denunciation Parade Continues
The compulsion of so many on the right to denounce every tasteless remark Trump utters only serves to reinforce the left’s stranglehold over our cultural discourse.
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The Most Explosive Book of 2026
Jacob Siegel’s The Information State exposes how the deep state conspired to control the narrative.
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Netflix Acquisition Won’t Destroy the Film Industry
Critics panicked over a potential leftist media monopoly need to Netflix and chill.
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Trump’s Inflation Trap
Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.
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Reversing Reality Dysphoria
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services restores Admiral Richard Levine to his original gender.
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A Solid National Security Strategy
President Trump’s new national security strategy is a solid plan for the new century.
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How Trump Changed America
Where his predecessors fixated on abstract issues like global terrorism, Trump is strategically focused on America’s priorities.
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President Trump’s Trustbusting Moment
The Trump administration should oppose the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger, which would create a left-wing entertainment monopoly.
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Pouring Gasoline on the Affordability Fire
Our affordability crisis is actually a government subsidy crisis.
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Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The media’s sudden interest in Joe Biden’s immigration failure is too little, too late.
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Stronger Vetting Won’t Fix It
After last week’s D.C. shooting, America doesn't need stronger vetting—it needs fewer immigrants.
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The ‘Men in the Water’ Canard
Enemies in the water have been legitimate targets of war before. It should be no different now.
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Trump’s Deportations Expose the Fragility of His Coalition
MAGA must be willing to accept that Trump loses support among many Hispanic voters when he keeps his promises and they honor tribal interests above national interests.
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Trump’s Trade Focus Muddles His Immigration Agenda
Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker means that, for him, immigration questions are on the table in trade negotiations—even if MAGA doesn’t approve.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.
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Data Centers ‘Über Alles’
If Americans had realized how much the Trump administration would cater to Silicon Valley, the election last November might have turned out differently.
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Democrats are Becoming the Party of Treason
An incendiary video released by Democratic senators and members of Congress suggests that the party is mainstreaming treason as a political weapon.
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The Imperial Judiciary Strikes Back
Activist judges, who self-reverentially believe progressive technocrats and judges are democracy’s guardians, are exceeding their constitutional authority.
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Trump Already Has an Affordability Agenda: Reduce Immigration
The administration would do well to stop dismissing the cries of Americans about affordability and remind them that immigration enforcement is the surest path to making America more affordable again.
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Trump Hasn’t Lost Hispanics (Yet)
MAGA is more compelling to Hispanics than the halfhearted compromises Republicans served up before Trump. But there is no room for tone-deafness.
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The Neocon Wooing of Josh Shapiro
Understanding the motivations behind the sudden urge of neoconservatives to fluff Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Who’s Afraid of Christian Zionism?
Some thoughts on the various incarnations of ‘Christian Zionism’ and what we need to resolve the intra-familial quarrel now poisoning our politics.
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A Grand Old Bloodbath
Denying voter sentiment on the economy is a strategy for more GOP defeats.
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From Giuliani’s Golden Age to Mamdani’s Sanctuary Gangland
Extreme sanctuary policies will turn New York and other like-minded cities into shooting galleries.
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Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff ‘Dividends’ and 50-Year Mortgages
Americans don’t want token stimulus and a half-century of debt slavery, but an end to the crushing burden of inflation and high energy prices.
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The Off-Year Elections Say Little About GOP Prospects in 2026
There are plenty of reasons not to overreact to the “disaster” of the off-term elections.
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You Can’t Purge Tucker
The establishment conservative movement will not be able to stifle Tucker Carlson in the same way that it did Sam Francis and others.
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In Defense of the So-Called ‘Woke Right’
The right must not fear being labeled “woke” by those who are not using the term in good faith and whose conservative principles amount to capitulation to the left.
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The Computing Arms Race of Cold War 2.0
As nations compete over access to advanced AI technology, they will need the cool-headed restraint that prevented the first Cold War from ending in tragedy.
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Explaining Mamdani’s Appeal to the Young, With Polling
Establishment Republicans have no effective answer to the kind of populism promoted by Zohran Mamdani.
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Just Deserts for a Once-Coddled Neocon Elite
The confusion exhibited by onetime neocon allies of Bill Kristol’s for his support of Zohran Mamdani is an occasion for schadenfreude and reflection about the state of conservatism.
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JD Vance’s Dilemma
If he wishes to be elected in 2028, Vance must find a way to unite the now-fractured coalition that elected Trump.