Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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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
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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
America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
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
The deepest threat to democracy in our time comes from progressives who reject localized self-government itself
The Evil Empire failed to avert its destruction by exporting revolution beyond its borders. A self-righteous liberal empire will fare no better
Israel and Russia — very different countries, morally and otherwise — should be asking themselves today
Autocracy, Inc. is woefully inadequate to the times in which it appears
Progressives hate Trump. But they hate Israel’s war more
The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true
Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
When voters go to the polls in November, everyone will know that with Trump on the ballot the regime is on trial
The country is facing today a dilemma that the West will face tomorrow
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Amber Athey and Daniel McCarthy editor of Modern Age Journal and columnist at The Spectator join the Americano podcast to breakdown the long House speaker battle which has finally culminated in Trumpist Mike Johnson getting selected.
The winner Democrats picked in 2020 has turned them into long-range losers
The alliance is fighting for its life — and dying
Rejecting populism led the post-Reagan GOP to defeat and disaster
All Trump has to do is stay out of jail long enough to get back into the Oval Office
