If he wishes to be elected in 2028, Vance must find a way to unite the now-fractured coalition that elected Trump.
Tag: Donald Trump
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Trump’s Tariffs on Trial
Only the president can act toward the world with a singular vision when it comes to global contests.
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Yes, President Trump Can Blow Up Drug Boats
The president has both the constitutional and the statutory authority to carry out operations aimed at designated terrorist groups engaged in drug trafficking.
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Shutdown Reveals Illegal SNAP Scam
SNAP funds were designed to assist struggling American families, not to serve as a global buffet for illegal aliens.
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MAGA Makes Allies Great Again
There's no contradiction in nationalists from different nations working in parallel to make their own countries stronger individually and more secure collectively.
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Modi’s India Is Not the Ally America Needs
The Indian prime minister’s actions betray the Beltway’s wishful thinking.
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Washington, D.C. Now Boasts Abundant Patriotism—Just Not at No Kings
The contrast between the crowds and the programming at last weekend’s No Kings rally in D.C. and events at the Kennedy Center could not have been starker or more telling.
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Welcome to the Poastocracy
Increasingly, public opinion and political action are no longer shaped by the old institutions but are influenced by citizens talking directly to each other through new forms of media.
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How Trump Changed Conservatism
Trump understood something the conservative movement didn’t: Ideas are worthless if you no longer live in a world where they can be realized.
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Americans Are Right to Say ‘No’ to Subsidizing Foreigners
The fight over subsidies to Medicaid for foreigners raises important questions about who belongs to America’s political community.
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Desperate for Relevance, Legacy Media Is Turning on Academia
The legacy media is finally realizing that its unquestioning defense of academia’s dogmatic progressivism is a losing proposition.
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Bull Connor’s Spirit Lives On in Chicago
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s defiance of federal immigration enforcement echoes previous attempts to deny the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
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True Legacies and Fake Awards
Trump was elected to secure America’s borders and restore American greatness—not to win fake awards or advance diplomatic breakthroughs.
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Charlie Kirk and the Rhetoric of the Saloon
The American right must come to grips with the nasty fact that it is not in a polite debate, but rather in a rhetorical bar fight.
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Eric Adams’s Departure Will Not Stop Mamdani
New York City is going to have a jihadist Marxist mayor in November as the departure of the current mayor from the race appears to have done little to quell Mamdani’s momentum.
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The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
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Hush, Queen
The political left hates standards because standards are necessarily exclusionary and require judgments. No wonder their domination of the U.S. military has been a disaster.
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Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a fantastical exploration of an old moral universe where totalitarianism presents itself without complications or nuance and thus leaves us unprepared to confront evil as it actually exists.
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Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again
Putting a little faith (and money) behind American factories and workers will sometimes defy the laws of globalization.
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What Will It Take to Squash the Pending Insurrection?
There is no reason to believe that yet another Republican victory at the ballot box will be enough to put a stop to the insurrectionist behavior of the global left.
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Free Healthcare for Illegals Would End America
Anti-borders politicians are shutting down the government to fight for a policy that would destroy the solvency of America and the quality of life of its citizens.
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An Unpopularity Contest Ahead of Midterms
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have a handle on what the electorate really wants ahead of the coming midterm elections. Their best strategy may be to be hated the least.
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Donald Trump Has Triggered a “Time of Troubles” for Canada
America’s neighbor to the north is living on borrowed time, and its next crisis may be just around the corner.
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Conservatism Amid the Signal Flood
Every medium and every change in technology generates new fears about the same old problem—the human tendency to ideological and political theater born of our inevitable and incomplete understanding.
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The Poison in America’s Heart
Online radicalization, whether from the left or right, seems to be the real root of the recent spate of political assassinations.
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What Is the West?
For many, "the West" is uncommonly hard to define. One universal characteristic all Western nations share is that they are all being targeted by mass illegal immigration.
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Transhumanism, Tech Bros, and the Impulse to Escape Our Humanity
A new book explores the disturbing intellectual roots of transhumanist thinking.
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D.C. Judge Would Protect Fed Governor Lisa Cook Even If She Robbed a Bank
An astonishing opinion from the D.C. District Court and the implications it may have for interest rates and inflation.
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Five Stories That Show the Left’s Control of the ‘Truth’ Is Slipping
The days of the left controlling the “narrative” and spinning events to suit it are very plainly slipping away as five events from recent days demonstrate.
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Who’s Accountable for Autopen Pardons?
Joe Biden’s autopen commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federally incarcerated offenders—including many with a history of violence.
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Democrat Extremism Underwrites Trump
The issues Democrats lost on last November are the same issues they continue to fight Trump on now.
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Trump’s National Guard Deployment and the Art of the 80-20 Issue
Donald Trump sees and is ready to fill the leadership and quality-of-life vacuum that Democrats readily tolerate.
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MN Gunman’s Pot Use Is Further Evidence Against Rescheduling Marijuana
The argument against rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug couldn’t be any clearer in the aftermath of last week’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.
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The Law Allows Trump to Expand Federal Law Enforcement to Other Cities
Blue jurisdictions that do not shape up should expect to be visited by feds who have the law on their side.
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A Tale of Two Stools
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.
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If Lisa Cook Committed Mortgage Fraud, Then It’s a Crime Still in Progress
The president is fully within his rights to fire a high-ranking public official credibly accused of financial crimes.
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The Political Divide Is More Dangerous Than the Right Thinks
The wokeified rhetoric of the left still wins over a substantial number of voters in Western countries who will not be won over by the good results of conservative governments.
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When Joey Met Leni
Remembering Joe Biden’s hate speech and a warning for the American people moving forward: The left hates you.
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Yes, President Trump Has the Authority to Fire Lisa Cook
Trump must be able to fire members of the Fed's Board of the Governors—or else the Fed is structured in an unconstitutional manner.
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Lack of Will
Today’s comedy is lacking in the kind of mastery of mediums and an understanding of mankind that made Will Rogers an all-time great.
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Trump’s Claim to Be Country’s ‘Chief Law Enforcement Officer’ Has Precedent
The media is slamming the president’s claim but did not object when other presidents and scholars used the same terminology.
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President Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
For brokering peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Congo and Rwanda, and his ongoing efforts between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. president has a claim beyond all others.
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Is It Time To End Mandated ‘Majority-Minority’ Congressional Districts?
It is time to end court-ordered majority-minority districts, exclude illegal aliens from congressional apportionment, and get an accurate census.
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The Myth of the ‘Good’ Immigrant
At a time when America is struggling to meet the needs of the native population, importing millions of outsiders makes little sense and leads to explosive political outcomes.
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A Fed Governor’s Shady Home Purchase May Lead to More Money Printing
President Trump’s hopes to lower interest rates and grow the economy may get a boost from the pending exit of one of Biden’s shady appointees to the Fed.
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The Art of the Deal, Russia-Ukraine Style
Trump, the sober and emotionally detached realist, stands a better chance of making peace than his ideologically inclined White House predecessor.
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The Right Wing’s Institutional Problem
Given the left’s long march through our institutions, we cannot trust that those beholden to such institutions—even if they are on the right—can prevail in politics without a new understanding of the game.
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The Cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome? Success!
Trump’s approval now surpasses that of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama at this stage of their second terms and only shows signs of growing stronger.
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Trump’s Takeover of D.C. Is Working
The Democrat-led disaster city is finding out what happens when the laws are enforced.
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Pam Bondi’s Crackdown on D.C.’s Sanctuary Policies Is Long Overdue
The failures of sanctuary cities are a choice they don’t have to make. Cleaning up D.C. will help expose this truth.