To win, the Democrats need to be more like Trump
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Beyond hating the president, the party has little to offer. That needs to change if they want success in 2020
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Beyond hating the president, the party has little to offer. That needs to change if they want success in 2020
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They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one
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Name recognition and star power split the 2020 field
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The 2020 attempts to ‘primary’ Donald Trump will be even more pathetic than 2016
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The progressive media doesn’t care about what really happened when it has white boys in MAGA caps to hate
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The quality that counts in a president is whether he suits the needs of the country at a given moment
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War brings our elite together
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Its value lay in the fact it was an insider magazine
This article was originally published on Spectator USA. George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s 41st president, became a figure of nostalgia long before he died Friday night. He was already a symbol of the Oval Office’s lost dignity within months of his departure from the White House, following his loss to Bill Clinton in the 1992
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In 2020, if Trump prevails in either Michigan or Pennsylvania, and holds Ohio and Florida, he is almost assured victory
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In defense of third-party voters
The Trump economy has defied all sceptics and naysayers. Unemployment is at half-century record lows, wages are up, and Wall Street opened November by bouncing back from a rocky October. Trump was supposed to be a reckless leader who would panic the markets. He hasn’t. His tariffs were supposed to torpedo the economy. They haven’t. If Americans
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The Democrats’ broad interpretation of the 14th Amendment is not a winner with the American public
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Violence should not be a cudgel with which to beat political opponents — but it is
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Reagan, Gingrich and Trump all transformed their parties. The Democrats don’t have anyone that can do that
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Midterms simply are not a reliable verdict on a president’s job performance or re-electability
This article was originally published on Spectator USA. With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court has a solidly conservative majority for the first time since the New Deal. Just how conservative this new majority is remains to be seen: Chief Justice John Roberts disappointed the Republican right when he voted to uphold the
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The new alerts are likely to prove harmless, if unnecessary
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Kanye West’s message could do for black America what Trump’s did for the people of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin
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What won’t help Brett Kavanaugh are the kinds of arguments that many right-leaning commentators have made over the past week in response to Ford’s claims