Biden’s Pyrrhic victory
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Blocking Sanders with Biden is tantamount to writing off the Democratic party’s own youth activist wing
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Blocking Sanders with Biden is tantamount to writing off the Democratic party’s own youth activist wing
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The revolution is complete. The old revolutionaries are now the establishment
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The Democratic establishment’s problem with Bernie Sanders is really a problem with democracy
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The future isn’t young Andrew. It was never old Joe
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If Biden was spared bad news last night, it was only to suffer another day
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Their arguments about why the Senate needed to call witnesses were contradictory
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Far from damning Trump, his intervention suggests the president was acting in a reasonable manner
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The emotional anti-war right is susceptible to its own wishful thinking about the irenic intentions of Iran
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Why are the Democrats committing constitutional suicide?
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What force on earth can reform a corrupt or incompetent elite, one that serves itself and its dreams rather the citizens of the country?
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Maybe Trump’s critics are just as wrong as they’ve been every other time
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
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The party is struggling to adapt to the 21st century
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The Democrats could tackle Trump in more effective ways. But they are too interested in the political theater
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Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be
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America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has
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
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The divide in politics is increasingly between secular liberalism on the one hand and a coalition of faith and nation on the other
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There is no market on the right or the identity-politics left for what anti-populist Republicans are advertising
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The ruling class still believes in a consensus that doesn’t exist. Their legitimacy is vanishing