Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.

What Donald Trump must learn from Boris Johnson’s triumph

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

Democrats don’t want to impeach Trump

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