Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • The Meaning of Trump

    Analysis so good that if I start quoting it I'll end up quoting most of it. You knuckleheaded NeverTrumpers need to read this.

  • Why We Like Trump Despite His Flaws

    We like him because he understands that politics is not a gentlemanly debate but war, and because he is uniquely positioned to punch back hard against vicious leftists who obviously see politics as war.   I can't say it any better than the great David Horowitz: The movement galvanized by Trump can stop the progressive…

  • If He’s Not Your President . . .

    . . . how can you impeach him?  (HT: Chris Cathcart)

  • Is Donald Trump Your President?

    The graphic infra  may help clear things up for those of you lefties who are not permanently lost to TDS. I will add that if Trump is not your president, then you are not my fellow citizen. You are a subversive element, and due no respect, if you do not accept our system of government…

  • So Much to be Grateful For

  • The Continuing Meltdown of Bill Kristol

    An excellent piece by Chris Buskirk

  • The SCOTUS Argument for Trump Vindicated

    Had he lost the election, Trump would be remembered mainly for his ugly words. But having won, he is redeemed by his already long string of ameliorative actions, the latest and best of which has been his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.   Gorsuch is the recipient of high praise from many…

  • Stupor Bowl Prediction

    V. Putin will hack the scoreboard the way he hacked the voting machines in November, tilting the tabulation of the vote in favor of fellow fascist, Donald J. Trump. (Adapted from a Dennis Miller riff.)

  • Paradoxes of Illegal Immigration

    This entry from 6 January 2012 bears re-posting in the light of current events. 'Light' indeed. A new day is dawning. Things are looking up. We now have a president with the cojones to take action, and he has. Who would have thought that Donald J. Trump of all people would be the patriot to…

  • Trump as Right-Wing Post-Modern Anti-Hero

    Excellent analysis by David Ernst. Excerpt: All this raises an uncomfortable question for people who have no use for PC’s agenda, and who value the freedom to think for themselves. How do you respond to someone who is determined to smear you for your alleged bigotry regardless of what you think and why? How do…

  • America’s Second Civil War

    Dennis Prager: [Paleo] Liberalism — which was anti-left, pro-American and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America; and which regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism…

  • The Central Dividing Line in American Politics

    Here: [Samuel] Huntington is most famous for arguing in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order that the post-Cold War world would not be defined by the universalization of liberal values but by ethnic frictions within nations and civilizational clashes between them (the most volatile fault lines, he said, were between the West and Islam and…

  • Vindictive Obama Sticks it to the Nation Once More on the Way Out the Door

    Krauthammer: Commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, one of the great traitors of our time, is finger-in-the-eye willfulness. Obama took 28 years off the sentence of a soldier who stole and then released through WikiLeaks almost half a million military reports, plus another quarter-million State Department documents. The cables were embarrassing; the military secrets were…

  • Trump is Thor’s Hammer

    My friend Mike Valle will be able to relate to Hugh Hewitt's comparison for reasons I won't relate.  Hewitt's column is entitled It's time to relax about Trump. Read it you hyperventilating libruls and cool your jets. The stroke you avoid may be your own. Related articles The Left's Hatred of Conservative Talk Radio

  • Less Than One Day to Go . . .

    What a wonderful legacy! Some people have a negative net worth. Can one speak of a negative legacy? In these waning hours of his (mis)administration, let us reflect on the foolish and destructive things Obama has said and done the better to savor the change and hope that tomorrow will usher in. Remember Arizona Senate…