Trump won’t be dragged into a regime-change war
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He isn’t going to repeat his predecessors’ folly
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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He isn’t going to repeat his predecessors’ folly
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The battle on the streets of LA is between two very different ideas of government
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At home and abroad, the question is no longer ‘which system is best?’ but ‘whose land is this?’
President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made a good sheik: he doesn’t drink, he loves developing flashy properties to show off his power and wealth, and he’s brutally realistic about the role of oil (and other commodities) in world politics. In his
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There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does
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The next 1,361 days (or more) will be as wild as the past 100
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If this is a new Cold War, it’s one that’s very different from the contest with the Soviet Union
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What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started
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The Trump of 2025 wants something larger than the presidency
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America has been lecturing other nations about how they keep their own houses — if indeed they are their own — for decades
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He’ll lose some battles in the courts, perhaps a great many. But what counts is how many he wins
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Donald Trump didn’t just win an election last year, he performed an exorcism
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At the start of this century the party had a very clear picture of what the future was supposed to look like. Trump proved it a mirage
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We have to look at history and give careful thought to the world’s complexity
Donald Trump’s victory this time may not be the surprise that his 2016 win was, but for his critics it’s even more of a shock. Trump has been impeached, arrested, convicted, shot at, and relentlessly demonised as a ‘fascist’ over the last four years. None of that was enough to stop him. Just the opposite:
What can the 2020 and 2016 elections, the previous votes in which Donald Trump was the Republican nominee, tell us about today’s race for the White House? There are three layers to a presidential election, only two of which really matter. The overall ‘popular’ vote only counts for bragging rights. Trump has never won it.
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Freddy keeps up Americano tradition by speaking to Daniel McCarthy ahead of the election. On the podcast they discuss how Trump’s get-out-the-vote project is working and the impact low-propensity voters could have on the result, whether this election will be plagued by inefficiencies in the American electoral system and if J.D. Vance is actually the
Hillary Clinton has a simple but bitter lesson to teach Donald Trump’s supporters in 2024: the best way to lose an election is to assume you’ve already won it a week before it happens. The MAGA movement – aiming to Make America Great Again, namely by Making Trump President Again – has never been more
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America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
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Abortion opponents will have to bring about a change in the public’s values as profound as the one wrought by supporters of same-sex marriage