Category: conservatism, Page 53

Sen. Rick Scott: Ground Troops In Ukraine Should Still Be An Option

Republican politicians are hopeless warmongers and interventionists. This is especially true of Republican senators. Lindsey Graham has doubled down on assassinating Vladimir Putin. A few years ago, Little Marco threatened to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro and did everything in his power to install a puppet regime in Venezeula headed by Juan Guaidó. Dump assassinated General […]

Iraq: Destruction of a Nation

Kevin McCarthy: Putin Is Evil

We’re not going along with a return to Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush’s foreign policy.

Mike Pence: There Is No Room In The GOP For Anti-Imperialists

Mike Pence gave a speech to the GOP donor class last night. He wasn’t speaking to the voters. They don’t have any say over the matter. We sell our foreign policy and bureaucrats run it anyway. CNN: “(CNN) – Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday condemned Republican “apologists” who have used positive language to […]

National Review: Putin Is No Model For American Conservatives

Who is modeling themselves on Vladimir Putin? Russia has always been an autocratic multicultural empire. Ukraine was a part of the Russian empire and later the Soviet Union from George Washington’s presidency through Bill Clinton’s presidency. The argument here is between those of us who accept Russia as it has always existed in this world […]

Hannity Calls For Regime Change In Russia

Want to say he’s gone senile, but actually sounds like he always has. pic.twitter.com/yjKkLhBSe4 — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 28, 2022 If you tuned out this evening after Tucker Carlson, you missed out on this on the Boomer Power Hour. Even Hillary Clinton wasn’t this emotional and deranged tonight on Rachel Maddow. Note: This is […]

David Brooks: The Dark Century

David Brooks is in a dark and foreboding mood tonight. New York Times: “In the early 1990s I was a roving correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Europe. Some years it felt as if all I did was cover good news: the end of the Soviet Union, Ukrainians voting for independence, German reunification, […]

DCCC: GOP Culture War Attacks “Alarmingly Potent”

This is the first election cycle in which the GOP quit worrying about being called “racist” by “journalists” and started framing Democrats as anti-White. It is working for them. Politico: “Democrats’ own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is “preachy,” “judgmental” and “focused on culture wars,” according to documents obtained by POLITICO. […]

The Bulwark: The GOP’s Ongoing Insurgency

Charlie Sykes is 67 years old. He has never experienced a real election until the last three. The chimp that tries to rip your face off was the norm in American democracy for most of the 19th century before the Great Hushing in the Progressive era. We’re also back to that level of immiseration and […]

The Bulwark: The GOP’s Ongoing Insurgency

Charlie Sykes is 67 years old. He has never experienced a real election until the last three. The chimp that tries to rip your face off was the norm in American democracy for most of the 19th century before the Great Hushing in the Progressive era. We’re also back to that level of immiseration and […]

Red Eagle Politics: The Palmetto Pushovers

This ought to be good. I’ve been looking forward to this. Jaye Ryan has been wondering about this for years. Why does South Carolina have such awful politicians these days? Note: The history of South Carolina is glorious … the Barbadian expansion, the first state to leave the Union, Fort Sumter, Calhoun, Rhett, Preston Brooks, […]

Thomas Edsall: Status Anxiety Is Blowing Wind Into Trump’s Sails

Thomas Edsall thinks status anxiety is driving rightwing populism. New York Times: “What is the role of status discontent in the emergence of right-wing populism? If it does play a key role, does it matter more where someone stands any given moment or whether someone is moving up the ladder or down? In the struggle […]

Will Christianity Save the West?

Every time the conservatives in America get ahead, they are forced to make a difficult decision: “who are we?” It is one thing to say that you are a conservative, so you conserve the past, but the question then becomes which parts you conserve. Do we want the recent past, with slavery and mercantilism, or […]

Brion McClanahan: What Is American Equality?

There goes the “lumpen intelligentsia” again denying that the American Founding and 19th century liberalism are the same thing.

Mitch McConnell: 1/6 Was a Violent Insurrection

Why is someone who is so deeply unpopular with his own voters and who has no agenda the most powerful elected Republican in the United States?

John Avlon Explores Alabama’s Rigged Redistricting System

So, Alabama is going from 6/7 House seats controlled by Republicans to 6/7 House seats controlled by Republicans. Basically, nothing is changing with a black majority seat in West Alabama based on Selma and Birmingham. Meanwhile in New York, aggressive gerrymandering is cutting the number of Republican held seats in half from 8 to 4. […]

The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

I’m currently reading the book. None of this is news to me. I’m going to review the book here though since it is so relevant to “the rise of illiberalism.”

Karen Questioned By Republican Congressman

Sir, Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss (aka Karen) of PERIL will settle for nothing less than totalitarianism as a solution to the rise of ” rightwing domestic extremism.”

Breaking Points: White House Pushes Spotify To Censor Joe Rogan

Once again, it is a funhouse mirror world. The people who are jumping up and down and stomping their feet and having a tantrum and demanding censorship are the “liberals.” The people whose instinct is to say calm down, relax, get a grip and let him speak are the “authoritarians.” It is not the White […]

New York Times: New York Democrats Are Leading a ‘Master Class’ In Gerrymandering

You’ve probably heard the party line by now in coastal media. “The Democratic Party is America’s only small-d democratic party.” – Eric Levitz, New York Magazine American democracy is in peril. It is on the verge of death or something. Civil War 2 is just over the horizon. We’re descending from “democracy” into “anocracy” because […]

Tucker Carlson: Airbnb Banned White Nationalist Michelle Malkin

Tucker Carlson calls Airbnb “an aggressive agent of authoritarian social change” for banning individuals associated with hate groupshttps://t.co/AvIUs1YZIt pic.twitter.com/nrbquPfHUy — nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) February 4, 2022 I’m probably banned too. I’ve never used Airbnb before, but this blog is listed as a “hate group” on the SPLC’s official enemies list. This is why I […]

RNC Set To Censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger

Of all the predictions that I made about 2022, the easiest call was that these two clowns would be dumped by the end of the year.

Chris Hayes: The Mississippi Way

I watched this clip several times last night. As far as I can tell, there are three points of views here: 1. Sen. Roger Wicker thinks it is ironic that Joe Biden is appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court since affirmative action is on the chopping block again at the Supreme Court and […]

Axios: The Making of a Modern Republican

In retrospect, I got too blackpilled during the Trump era. After everything that happened when Trump was president, I find it stunning to say that now. For a variety of reasons, I have flipped though over the past two years from pessimism to optimism. Axios: “Who had the power: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce The […]

Sen. Luján’s Stroke Torpedoes Senate Majority For Democrats

Before this happened, Senate Democrats only had a few months at most to overcome the hurdles of Manchin and Sinema to pass their agenda. In theory, the Democrats could have passed a scaled down version of Build Back Better before election season kicked in.