Trump redefines the race
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Trump is using Biden’s inertia and lack of a positive agenda to define the Democrat
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Trump is using Biden’s inertia and lack of a positive agenda to define the Democrat
Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts. Anger is the only thing that gets through, even when he’s trying to be hopeful or inspiring. And his acceptance remarks at the Democratic convention were well short of inspirational: the nominee didn’t seem tired,
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The rich will do well in Biden-Harris America, the middle class will be in life support and the violent will be unhampered
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Progressive liberals get a psychic reward from incanting the right words
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Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs
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With Daniel McCarthy, contributor to Spectator USA and editor of Modern Age. On the podcast, he talks to Freddy Gray about how Sessions was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old, and what this means for Trump’s re-election prospects.
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He was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old
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The attempt to prettify history is ugly
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Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him
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Corporate America wants you to know it totally rejects imperialism and racism. Just not the Chinese variety
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This is the most sterile rebellion any country has ever seen
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He was just too scared of upsetting the gatekeeper class
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$1,200 isn’t going to stretch very far for workers who have lost their jobs, or even for those still employed
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The Democrats need a VP nominee who represents the future. They don’t seem to have one
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This preening egotist is the anti-Ron Paul
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The divide between the professional and servant classes has never been more stark
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The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
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The pandemic will recede, and so will the panic it has touched off — though bad policy precedents will stick around
The 2020 struggle for the White House is shaping up to look a lot like the 2016 contest. Once more the Democratic field is narrowing to Bernie Sanders and an establishment Democrat who lays claim to Barack Obama’s legacy—this time Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, rather than his first secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. And
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A vote for her is the clearest possible vote against the war party