Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Why We Are Winning

    Roland Fryer, WSJ, The Economics of DEI and MEI. (Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence) Victor Davis Hanson, Five Ukrainian Fables James Piereson, New Criterion, Too Many Democrats Kimberly Strassel, WSJ, Trump's School Choice Paul Craig Roberts, Every Vote for a Democrat is an Attack on America.  HT: Tony Flood who writes, "Salient line (for me): 'And…

  • In-Lieu-of-SOTU: Trump’s Congressional Address

    Fabulous address by Trump to both houses of Congress last night. It kept me up beyond my monkish bedtime. So I got up 'late' this morning at two a.m. How good was it? The boneheads of The Bulwark are going bonkers.  Can I say anything bad about it? Well, our boy spoke of two genders…

  • A Coordinated Assault on All Fronts in a Fight to the Death

    I don't pretend to understand Trump's battle plan, but it may be that this guy does: The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. As last week’s various lawsuits sprouted restraining orders like early buds emerging all over the willow trees in springtime, most commenters expected Trump to take a necessary pause for defensive retrenchment. Surely,…

  • Could Kamala Explain the Difference between True and Magnetic North?

    I doubt it. She thinks 'the cloud' in cyberspeak refers to a physical object in the sky. Remember that howler? Why are the Dems so dumb? They lack both a message and messenger. The think they failed to 'get their message across.' But they had no message to get across, and no one to get…

  • Steve Bannon and Megyn Kelly on FAFO

    Here. Megyn Kelly, being relatively young, may be forgiven for referring to Elliot Ness as Elliot Nest (ouch!), but Steve Bannon, whose superannuation shows, and who ought to know better, either missed her mistake or let it pass, being the gentleman that he is.   In all other particulars, however, the short video is delightfully on…

  • Scott Johnson on Richie Havens

    Powerline: Havens grew up in Brooklyn singing with a choir in church and with doo wop groups on street corners. He crossed the river to figure out how to make a go of it in Greenwich Village as a performer. He recorded two albums on Douglas Records before he signed a contract with Verve Forecast…

  • MAGA, Majority Rule, and Consent of the Governed

    Here: In short, the political battle between the Left and Right is best understood as an existential fight over what America will be. The Left pushes for a metanoic transformation, while the Right tries to catalyze an epistrophic one. Metanoia is a forward-looking change — a recognition that one’s past way of life was flawed…

  • Encouraging Trends

    The acquittal of Daniel Perry. He should never have been charged with a crime. Although there are instances of toxic masculinity,  there was nothing toxic about Perry's manly behavior. He ought to count as a hero in the mind of anyone who can think straight.  The decline of race-delusional BLM bullshit. The death of DEI. …

  • An Appeal to Democrat Voters

    Righteously pissed off by the depredations of our political enemies and their long train of  outrageous lies,  abuses, and slanders, my tendency is to urge a girding of the loins for a long battle in which we give them a taste of their own 'medicine.'  But there is a complementary approach that may work with…

  • The Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable

    I have been using the title phrase for some time now to refer to Trump-supporting conservatives. But what makes us sane and reasonable? Victor Davis Hanson compiles a list in The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity. In an earlier post I referred to the take-back of our country as a National Sanitation Project,…

  • Elections Have Consequences

    Conservatives are hobbled by their virtues, one of which is civility: we are loathe to "give as good as we get." But now that our side has power, we must not hesitate to use it against our political enemies. The destructive swine will squeal but we should show them no mercy.  There must be no…

  • Should Trump Use the DOJ Against his Enemies?

    Would it be 'revenge' or would it be a wholly justifiable upholding of the rule of law?  Would success be 'revenge' enough, as Trump has suggested? His enemies accused him of violating 'norms' when they themselves violated the norms that matter, those rooted in the rule of law and the Constitution. Doing so, they engaged…

  • Morning in America!

    Hats off to all the patriots who did their civic duty.  But this is no time to gloat over the defeat  of our enemies. They will not give up or give in. For these totalitarian dogs, the political is everything.  They do not suffer, as we do, from The Conservative Disadvantage. The war is just…

  • Religious Liberty and David Brooks

    Top o' the Stack

  • Terrorism and Anti-Semitism

    Two more reasons to vote for Trump.  Ask yourself two simple questions. Will the likelihood of terrorist events in the homeland be greater under Trump or under Harris with her open-border policy? Will there be more anti-semitic acts under Trump or under Harris with her casual and tolerant attitude toward crime?  The questions answer themselves,…