Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Widespread Lying about Trump’s Speech

    NRO: Senator Tammy Duckworth says that, during his address at Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.” This is a flat-out lie. It is entirely untrue. It is invented from whole cloth. You can read the speech here and see for yourself. It was a magnificent speech as…

  • Dan Bongino

    Last night on Judge Jeannine. I quote from memory: Half of the Republicans are Democrats, but all of the Democrats are Democrats. Related: Bongino Report

  • President Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech

    Roger Kimball appreciates its magnificence and writes about it brilliantly: The president was especially strong in challenging what is perhaps the most obnoxious manifestation of our petulant antinomianism—that species of politically correct intolerance that has come to be called “cancel culture.” In essence, cancel culture is the malignant inversion of liberalism’s defining virtues, openness and…

  • What Can a Sane individual Do in the Present Political Situation?

    This is a repost from last November. Given how fast things are unraveling, what I wrote then sounds  a bit lame now. Still, I think my suggestions are sound. They are things I do. Whether you should do them is your call. ………………………. What can an individual do? Not much, but here are some suggestions.…

  • No Fool Like an Old Fool

    Ed is an 80-year-old neighbor of mine. We've been casual acquaintances for years, running into each other on the trails, exchanging greetings and snatches of conversation. The other day politics came up for the first time, and to my surprise I learned that Ed, originally a Republican, had become an Independent, and was now a…

  • Anthony Flood Reviews David Horowitz, Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win

    An Amazon review by our long-time correspondent. I award it the plenary MavPhil endorsement.  Tony coins a brilliancy, 'academedia complex.'  I would add a qualifier, 'academented.'  Anthony Flood 5.0 out of 5 stars The Blitzkrieg the Berserkers Have Coming to Them Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020   “The virus and its…

  • David French, Donald Trump, Christianity, and Politics

    David French maintains that Christians cannot, if they are to remain true to Christian teachings, support Donald Trump: The proper way for Christians to engage in politics is a rich subject . . . but there are some rather simple foundational principles that apply before the questions get complex. For example, all but a tiny…

  • Bernie the Buffoon’s Borscht Belt Bushwa

    We will hear it no more. His is the last spasm of state-side socialism that speaks its name plain. The coming brew will be of the stealth-ideological variety. Comrade Bernie has bowed out to make way for Biden the Senile.  Long ago, my friends, in the fabulous and far-off days of Camelot and for some…

  • Nancy Pelosi and other Corona Meltdowns

    Victor Davis Hanson lays into Nancy Pelosi with severity, but with justice: Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party’s cursus…

  • An Upside of the Pandemic

    Suddenly, even globalists are big on borders.  Well, whatever it takes.

  • Anthony Flood Reviews David Horowitz, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America

    Excerpts: Cultural Marxism is but the latest form of the cultural cancer now metastasizing throughout the body politic. (Marxism-Leninism was only the deadliest form, not the first, but even today old-fashioned Communism does not lack adherents.) That the Democratic Party is now this malignancy’s host is the grim, but well-documented, conclusion of Horowitz’s long literary…

  • Great Articles at American Greatness

    Gorka, Hanson, Kimball, et al.  

  • Was Jesus a Socialist?

    No way! He actually fed people. ………………….. I came to this witticism via Karl White who got it from someone unnamed.  It is too good not to repeat and propagate.  So do your bit and spread it around. You can't battle the Left effectively with just one weapon: the whole arsenal has to be brought…

  • Break Contact with Political Opponents?

    Should one break off contact with those whose social and political views one finds abhorrent?   Let me mention one bad reason for not breaking off contact.  The bad reason is that by not breaking off contact one can have 'conversations' that will lead to amicable agreements and mutual understanding. This bad reason is based on the…

  • Why We Defend Donald Trump

    Replying to a young friend who loathes the man, Malcolm Pollack explains why so many of us stand with President Trump despite his manifold and manifest faults: I make no case that Donald Trump is any kind of a saint. He is enormously vain (as all presidents are, with the possible exception of Calvin Coolidge),…