Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Politics

    Representative Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) tears former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle  to shreds. Mace has the political cojones that Milque Toast Mitt and his sickening RINO ilk lack. "That's bullshit." (1:22) Why be civil to the anti-civilizational? Sage advice from a former Speaker: don't underestimate Kamala.

  • The New Politics: A Battle of Billionaires

    Some cynics (Moldbug?) will say that it has always been like that: the essence of the political is captured in the Golden Rule: Those with the gold, rule.  If that is so, let the battle proceed. I am glad we have Trump and Musk on our side. You don't defeat transgender Unsinn with calm arguments…

  • RINOs are Worse than Democrats!

    Thus spake Leo Terrell on Mark Levin's show on Saturday night. True. Here's my two cents. Trump's unification of the Republication Party must include the purging of the RINOs. Start with Loony Liz and Milquetoast Mitt. Not so long ago the 'circular firing squad' was an apt metaphor for the behavior of Republicans among themselves,…

  • On Settling: Political and Marital

    In politics, as in marriage, at some point you have to settle on the best available candidate, not the best. Politics is about better and worse, not about perfect and imperfect. Qui habet aures audiendi audiat. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."  

  • Donald Trump, Gunslinger

    This nails it. After all, who is the greater threat to democracy?

  • Open Thread: Last Night’s Trump-Biden Debate

    I wrote something about it but lost the post when my connection failed as I was uploading it. What did you think of the 'debate'?

  • Are We Safer under Biden or under Trump?

    In case it is not obvious, VDH will explain it to you in under six minutes.

  • On Mixing Politics with Philosophy

    I have been asked why I intersperse political entries with narrowly philosophical ones.  But in every case the question was put to me by someone who tilts leftward.  If my politics were leftist, would anyone complain?  Probably not.  Academe and academic philosophy are dominated by leftists, and to these types it seems entirely natural that…

  • A Question about Donald Trump

    Things are getting interesting. How long until we collapse into hot civil war? The replacement of the rule of law with the rule of lawfare is a bad sign. The following repost, slightly redacted, is from January 2022, and more relevant that ever. ………………………….. This from a reader: It would be very interesting to hear…

  • Black Lives Maga!

    The South Bronx comes out for the Orange Man.  The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old "Joe and Eddy" tune from the early '60s, There's a Meeting Here Tonight.  Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black citizens understand that an endless influx of illegal aliens…

  • Trump in the ‘Hood

    Amazing video. Historically significant.

  • Biden Chases ‘Death to America’ Vote

    David Harsanyi: Biden, it should be noted, is a vacuous political zombie who has never met a position he hasn’t dropped for a vote. Today, he is surrounded by Obama-era advisers and Hamas sympathizers . . . who have long wanted the U.S. to be aligned with mullahs of Iran, as a counterbalance to colonialist Western…

  • Resuming the “Never-Trump Mentality” Thread

    Tom Tillett often leaves very good comments, but he is 'slow on the trigger.' As a result, his contributions often get buried and go unread. I get the impression that he is someone who actually works for a living [grin].  Today he left two long but very good comments on the Never-Trump Mentality post.  Here…

  • The Never-Trump Mentality

    Top o' the Stack

  • America First!

    I explain what it means over at Substack.  I refute the fragile Kristol and articulate what the inarticulate Trump cannot. But to this man of action goes the credit of having put paid to Kristol and others of his pseudo-con ilk as well as to the Bush and Clinton dynasties. Jeb! is toast and Chelsea…