Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Donald Trump has reason to feel good about the British election. The success of the Brexit referendum in June 2016 was the harbinger of Trump’s own sensational victory against Hillary Clinton five months later. Will history now repeat itself, with Boris Johnson’s triumph heralding Trump’s re-election? What connected Brexit to the Trump-Clinton race was the stagnation
The party is struggling to adapt to the 21st century
The Democrats could tackle Trump in more effective ways. But they are too interested in the political theater
Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be
America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has
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Democrats are eager for the 2020 election to be defined by something other than the issues. The impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 is well remembered as a partisan fiasco. Yet the attempted impeachment of President Trump is off to an even more partisan beginning: Republicans in 1998 succeeded in winning over many House Democrats
The divide in politics is increasingly between secular liberalism on the one hand and a coalition of faith and nation on the other
There is no market on the right or the identity-politics left for what anti-populist Republicans are advertising
The ruling class still believes in a consensus that doesn’t exist. Their legitimacy is vanishing
Democrats are so fixated on bringing Trump down that they continue to ignore why he was elected in the first place
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John Bolton is out. It was a long time coming — Trump resisted hiring him in the first place, passing him over in favour of a military man, H.R. McMaster, at first. Bolton is a near-synonym for war and regime change, a hawk’s hawk. That was an obviously awkward fit for a president who got elected by campaigning
Libertarianism can’t deliver when it’s so indifferent toward nationhood
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Joe Biden has led Democratic polls since day one, holding the kind of consistent lead within his party that Donald Trump held heading into the 2016 primaries. The numbers say he will be the nominee. They also say he will beat Trump. They’re wrong: you should still bet against Biden getting the nomination or getting
These murderers do not have a conscience; they do not have any reflexive empathy or sense of humanity
The tepid centrists may not be inspiring, but they signify a problem for the likes of Sanders and Warren
The movement is beginning because conventional politics is at an end
By failing to team up with Pat Buchanan, he set back his cause by 20 years
He ’ s teaching libertarians how to lose
The politics of recitation is enough for ordinary time. But America is in the midst of serious change
Trump, Bolton, and the pathological cycle of failed conflicts
