Calls for “bipartisanship” from Conservatism Inc. manage only to elevate positions from the left that a healthier age would have recognized as madness.
Tag: Republicans
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Democrats Face Midterm Disappointment
The Republican Party is in better shape for the midterms than many suppose.
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The Left Doesn’t Want an Alliance With the Right
Dimwitted right-wingers seeking an alliance with the left because they are angry with Trump will discover how little they get and how much it costs.
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An Adolescent Attack on College Republicans
While it’s true that College Republican leaders need to refine their rhetoric when they take on the neocon establishment, the attacks on them by disingenuous critics exhibit even more jejune hysterics.
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It’s a Shame We Can’t Trust Our Elders
The New Right views the old neoconservative establishment as a disinterested father who cannot be trusted.
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The Midterm Elections: A Matter of Common Sense—Or Else
Republicans in Congress are in danger of being subsumed beneath a gathering electoral wave in the coming midterms if they don’t get their act together and start listening to their own voters.
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The Talking Filibuster Is the ‘Anti-Nuclear Option’
If Republicans want to keep their governing majority, enforcing the talking filibuster would be one way to do that and make the Senate great again.
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Elites Versus Ordinary Americans on Voter ID
Voter ID isn't a restriction on election integrity—it's a safeguard for it.
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Virginia Democrats Are Not Playing Beanbag
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” or so the saying goes. These days, the only people who seem to understand that are Trump … and the Democrats.
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Virginia’s New Governor Offers a Stark View of Leftist Rule to Come
Republicans should think hard about what’s happened in Virginia before becoming complacent about the coming midterm elections.
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Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline
Until Democratic populism can match Republican populism on immigration and cultural norms, the decline will continue for that party.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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King, James, and Amos
When the New York Post accused Letitia James of plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., the paper exposed its own serial ignorance.
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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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The Charade of Federal Budgetary Showdowns
The drama playing out in Washington stems from the unwillingness to confront the hard choices posed by our ever-growing mountain of debt.
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The Politics of the Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime and Deportations
The Republican approach to solving these problems is often labeled cruelty but it is rooted in an acknowledgment of reality and of doing what works.
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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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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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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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Gerrymandering: Obama vs. Obama
Not surprisingly, at various times, Barack Obama has been on all sides of the gerrymandering question.
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Democrats Need Populism, But Not Zohran’s Sort
Democrats trying to point their party back to Middle America are shunned in favor of the extreme and unpatriotic populism of the far left.
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Unwelcome Allies
Although it made sense to support Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, the narrative surrounding it from neoconservatives, and especially their attacks of the bombing’s critics, are tired and preposterous.
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The Ritualized Confrontation Between MAGA and the Neocons
If the necons are for it, MAGA is against it; but sometimes even our enemies can be correct, as I think the neocons are about Iran and the danger it poses.
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Libertarian Grandstanders Target Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
President Trump never promised to eliminate the $36 trillion national debt that took us decades to accumulate. So what gives?
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Why ‘Tit for Tat’ Lawfare Is Necessary
Public trust in the judiciary is collapsing. To restore it, conservatives need to stop restraining themselves in the face of leftist lawfare.
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How Glenn Youngkin’s Miracle Became a Curse
Viginia Republicans stood for competition in all things but their own primaries, and it is going to cost them in November.
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Another Thing Folks Like About the South: Public Education’s Revival
A reform movement, dubbed the Southern Surge, is allowing education reformers to work around political resistance, improving literacy and overhauling failing schools.
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Lawfare Isn’t Beaten—In France or America
Trump is right to pressure law firms to avoid falling into the trap of lawfare.
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Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?
Good economic policy calls for a cool head, and Wall Street fears the president is letting his passions set the nation on a dangerous course.
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A Plea to DOGE: Please Keep Those Axes Sharp and Swinging
A taxpayer’s lament for government overspending.
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Jan. 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Hymnody
The resistance to tyranny is something to sing about.
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Make a Resolution to Fix Social Security
Calling attention to the fiscal realities that apply throughout the federal government has never been more essential.
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Trump Draws the Map to 2028
Donald Trump destroyed the Democrats’ blue wall and, with it, their hopes for 2028.
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A Harris Presidency Will Give Sanctuary to Gang Members, Victimize Law-Abiding People
If Kamala wins, so do the gangs.
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Does America Deserve to Be ‘Great Again?’
It will take more than an economic revival to make America great again. We’re going to need a moral revival, too.
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Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People
If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issues—and above all, the economy, inflation, immigration and crime—then they stand a strong chance of prevailing.
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Donald Trump Has to Run Like It’s 2016 Again
Social media didn’t elect Trump in 2016, showing up in the flesh did. The contours of the election have shifted and that’s what Trump needs to do again to win in 2024.
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Let’s Make America Weird Again: J.D. Vance vs. the Left
If Vance’s record and achievements at so young an age constitute something weird, then let’s figure out a way to bottle this magic potion and serve it up to every teenager in America.
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Who Should Blacks Vote for in November?
If looking strictly at policies that best serve the interests of blacks, the electoral calculus may surprise. It’s not the party of the donkey or the elephant, but that of the porcupine.
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Is Trump Running Against Harris—or Donald Trump?
Trump can regain the momentum he’s lost since the convention—but only if he defines Harris in voters’ minds, so he’s running directly against her, not his party, his allies and himself.
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Attacking Kamala Harris as the DEI Candidate for President is Fair Game
Suggestions that Republicans cease noting the obvious about Kamala Harris being the DEI candidate for president are rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the American electorate.
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Kamala Harris’s ‘Mean Girls’ Election
The trouble for Harris is that her most enthusiastic supporters are the media’s mean girls, not parents or working-class stiffs, who probably seem “weird” to the kids who support her.
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How to Debate Kamala Harris if You are Donald Trump
Trump is a hot media presence. He needs to become a cooler one, while instilling rational fear of Kamala Harris’s hard left views.
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Republicans Have the Wind at Their Backs
More voters now identify as Republican than Democrat, out of disgust with pro-inflation, pro-criminal, open-border policies.