Category: Political Tactics
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When the Exercise of Rights Contributes to their Loss
Civil courage and prudence are competing virtues. At times competition become collision. Top o' the Stack.
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The Second Amendment and the Origin of Rights
Over at Substack.
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Don’t Vote for ANY Democrat
That may sound extreme, but it is not extreme at all. The Dems vote as a bloc. They are under party discipline. They are made to toe the party line and punished if they don't. To understand the contemporary Democrat party you need to study communism. Frank S. Meyer's The Moulding of Communists is one…
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Harvard Will Pay a Price . . .
. . . when its super-wealthy Jewish benefactors withhold their support. Mark my words. The most effective way to combat the preternaturally destructive Left is by refusing to fund them. For the common currency of human-all-too-human understanding is the lean green, the filthy lucre, money. Everyone, no matter how twisted, nihilistic, or demon-driven, understands it.…
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Ever Hear of Gene Sharp?
A symposium on Gene Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
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Conservative or Counter-Revolutionary?
Christopher Rufo made an excellent contribution to Mark Levin's "Life, Liberty, and Levin" last night. I will put one of his points in my own way with my own additions and 'flourishes.' One can conserve only what one has, not what one has lost. We conservatives have lost control of our institutions including the universities,…
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Political Action
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien The French saying is attributed to Voltaire. "The best is the enemy of the good." The idea is that one should not allow the pursuit of an unattainable perfection to impede progress toward an attainable goal which, while not perfect, is better than the outcome that is likely to…
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We Need a Broad Coalition to Defeat the Left
Substack latest. Tony Flood comments, with characteristic erudition: A good case, Bill. I wouldn't say I'm looking for atheists to work with, but a conservative's atheism would be no barrier to my doing so. While reading, I thought of Antony Flew (not to be confused with Anthony Flood), once a target of academia's cancel culture. In…
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Political Tactics: Downplay the Culture War Pro Tempore?
I tend to side with Kari Lake on the wisdom of a pro tem tactical downplay as we head for 2024. But here is the other side of the argument. Put simply, the big mistake in thinking the culture war isn’t the most critical issue heading into 2024 is that all of American politics is now…
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How the Dems Will Win in 2024
Victor Davis Hanson explains. Here's an alternative scenario from Paul Kengor. "If RFK [Jr.] goes third party, it would be doomsday for Democrats. It could bring Donald Trump back to the White House. And if that happens, Democrats [will] have only themselves to blame for their idiotic, authoritarian policies on everything from vaccine mandates to…
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Trump the Only Way Forward
Conservatives Lost the Culture War and the Trump Agenda is the Only Path Forward Refreshingly realistic but also deeply troubling. I fear the author is right. Conservatives lost the culture war and so now: Conservatives do not have a viable path to political power any other way. The issues of national survival are of primary…
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DEI and Crash Dummies
DIVERSITY demands that crash dummies be of all sizes, shapes, races, ethnicities, animal species including trans-species hybrids such as the Cat Man, and also 'genders' including trans-dummies, and let's not exclude living humans who 'identify' as crash dummies the better to facilitate their exit from life's freeway. EQUITY will then be served: an equal outcome…
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The Only Way Out is Through
The urge to retreat is tempting, but the only way out is through. To float above the fray in the manner of a Rod Dreher is not the way; the only way out is through. Minervic flights and the consolations of philosophy cannot be enjoyed when the barbarians are at the gates of one's stoa. Now…
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Trump, Adultery, Morality, and the Alinskyite Left
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