Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Predictions

  • Repost from Election Day, 2016: Catholics Must Support Trump

    This is an unredacted repost from 8 November 2016.  My opinion of Trump is higher now than it was then.  But the piece is basically on the right track and I stand by it. I threw the dice for Trump and the sequel showed that I was right to do so.  I was vindicated in…

  • Slouching Toward Totalitarianism

    Can Trump save us? Klingenstein: Is our regime totalitarian, emerging or otherwise? What makes it so? How far along are we? Can we fight back? Ellmers: I think the essay that Ted Richards and I wrote for your website, and the several excellent responses that you published, cover this pretty well.  Klingenstein: How much can Trump fix it? Ellmers: Very hard…

  • The Greatest Risk We are Taking

    Pat Buchanan warned us six years ago. Substack latest.

  • Annus Horribilis in Excelsis

    That is what 2024 is shaping up to be. Ben Shapiro: All of which means that 2024 is going to be the most insane and ugly presidential election in American history. And that’s saying a lot, since 1968 and 2020 are both years that existed. Under what circumstances, precisely, would Democrats accept the result of…