Category: MAGA Matters!
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Sartorial Incongruity and TDS
There’s President Trump in his expensive bespoke suit with a ridiculous red cap on his head, a “prole cap” — one size fits all! — emblazoned with “Trump was right about everything.” Gaucherie, braggadocio, exaggeration. Lefties and never-Trumping righties are ‘triggered,’ albeit in different ways, by these low-class characteristics and hate him in consequence. Their…
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Left and Right Opposition to Trump
The Left’s opposition to Trump is at bottom opposition to our system of government. Trump stands for the preservation of our republican form of government; the Left stands for its “fundamental transformation” (Obama), which is to say, its abolition. The never-trumping Right’s opposition to Trump is mainly to the man himself and his style which…
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What Our National Survival Depends On
Our great founders understood that immigrants bring their culture with them, and that some cultures are toxic to our own. They understood that there can be no comity without commonality, that immigration without assimilation is a recipe for disaster, and that unity, not diversity, is the source of our strength. As Alexander Hamilton warned, America’s survival…
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The ‘Paranoid’ Dems: Is Trump’s D. C. ‘Takeover’ a Prelude to Something Worse?
You decide. If you want my opinion, Dementocrat 'paranoia' is but a manifestation of TDS. Never forget: our political enemies are ever at work bringing Trump's 'inner Hitler' to light. Related: No Entity without Identity Addendum (8/22): Trump's One-Week D. C. Clean-Up. Does it show that the Dems are destroying their cities by choice? It…
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The Sam Tanenhaus Biography of William F. Buckley
I came across it at the local library but the sheer weight of the thing dissuaded me from checking it out. I borrowed Jake Tapper's light-weight (in both senses) Original Sin instead. I cannot recommend it. William Voegli's review of Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future, I can recommend. It raises the question:…
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Why Do We Support Trump?
Charlie Kirk, six months in to the second Trump term, sets forth what sets Trump 2.0 apart. His astonishing accomplishments include, in Kirk's words: 1) Completely and instantly securing the U.S.-Mexico border after the four-year Biden invasion. 2) The stock market hit record highs this very week and blue-collar wages are rising faster than they…
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Trump has Made News Great Again
Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye: The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life. Mercifully brief, and very interesting. In Foreign Affairs, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments. Elon Musk…
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Is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ a Concentration Camp?
It is according to the author of a TNR article. I don't disagree. After all, the bad hombres are being held against their will in one place prior to their deportation. The conclusion to draw, of course, is that some concentration camps are morally justified. This one is also legally justified. President Trump is merely…
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Is Trump Still the TACO Man? Or is he now THE HAMMER?
VDH, Ten Iranian Questions: Trump had warned the Iranians on numerous occasions. They never got the message. They were apparently listening to the American Left’s smears of Trump as a “TACO” (“Trump Always Chickens Out”)—a silly slur phrase that just died Saturday night. And die it did. To hell with the American Left with its…
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Trump, Nukes, and Nation-Building
It is blindingly evident that Ayatollah Khamenei and the rest of the radical Islamists in control of Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Donald Trump has been clear and consistent about this during the ten years he has been in the political spotlight. He may speak of diplomacy and agreements but he…
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Dems and Deportation
Democrats upset over deportations ought to look in the mirror. Prior to Biden-Harris they did little to secure the nation's borders, and by supporting Biden-Harris they embraced the destructive open-border policy of that administration. That nations need enforceable and enforced borders not merely to flourish, but to continue to exist, is well-nigh self-evident. Those in…
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Trump’s Magnificent MAHA Team
MAHA goes back a long way. Some of us are old enough to remember John F. Kennedy's stirring call to national fitness. It made a difference in our lives. If only Uncle Jack could see his nephew Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. teamed up with four distinguished medical doctors, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and…
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Ronald Radosh on David Horowitz: A Critical Appreciation
On very rare occasions, something surfaces at The Bulwark worth reading. Radosh, who is well worth reading, gives his take on Horowitz's flipping of his ideological script, and takes him to task for his late extremism. But how is this judgment by Radosh not itself extreme: What David is being celebrated for is the opposite…
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How Trump Won the Canadian Election
Philip Cunliffe: In electing a consummate globalist to defend Canadian sovereignty, Canadian voters exhibited a voluble national pride more commonly seen south of the border. In that sense, even if Trump may not get his 51st state of the Union, he has nonetheless imposed the value of sovereignty and national independence on the archetypal post-national…
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Stephen Miller Scorches the Dems
Watch this video, five minutes. I saw Miller live yesterday deliver this speech and tear the Washington press corps to pieces. He blasted the bums as they deserved to be blasted. Thank you, David Horowitz, for mentoring Miller. Rest in peace, you fought the good fight.