Landlord Trump, the tenants’ best bet
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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
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Thursday
Monday
How Trump is revolutionizing Washington
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He’ll lose some battles in the courts, perhaps a great many. But what counts is how many he wins
Friday
Shooing away the ghosts of Clinton and Blair
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Donald Trump didn’t just win an election last year, he performed an exorcism
Thursday
The Democrats need a new rulebook
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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
Thursday
Panicking over the planet and population is pointless
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We have to look at history and give careful thought to the world’s complexity
Wednesday
How a Latino wave carried Trump to victory
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:
Tuesday
A ripple, not a wave, will decide the US election
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.
Monday
Can Trump ‘Get Out the Vote’?
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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
Wednesday
Vibes don’t matter. Donald Trump is still the underdog
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
Monday
The classroom panopticon
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America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
Thursday
The pro-life problem
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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
Monday
Is the fate of democracy truly at stake?
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The deepest threat to democracy in our time comes from progressives who reject localized self-government itself
Thursday
Soviet America’s revolutionary wars
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The Evil Empire failed to avert its destruction by exporting revolution beyond its borders. A self-righteous liberal empire will fare no better
Monday
What is war good for in the twenty-first century?
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Israel and Russia — very different countries, morally and otherwise — should be asking themselves today
Anne Applebaum’s solutions to the ‘threat’ of autocracy
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Autocracy, Inc. is woefully inadequate to the times in which it appears
Wednesday
Biden’s base rebels over Gaza
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Progressives hate Trump. But they hate Israel’s war more
Tuesday
Israel and the making of nations
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The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
Sunday
Lessons from costly wars past
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American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true
Thursday
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
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Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
Tuesday
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
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In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
