Is Roy Moore the post-Trump future?
In the deepest red of Republican states, an accused pedophile is more popular than the GOP’s leadership
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Friday
Wednesday
Facebook is the world’s worst coffee house
The social media giant is bad for the press and bad for freedom
Thursday
America’s war games
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Trump, believe it or not, is smarter than the last two presidents, who started fires they couldn’t extinguish Donald Trump has an itchy trigger finger, and his name is John Bolton. The President’s national security adviser is a lifelong war hawk who, unlike Trump, was a diehard supporter of the Iraq War. Now
Monday
The great folly of US-Russia misunderstandings
Washington and Moscow should be careful what they wish for
Wednesday
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
From our UK edition
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political life: he first ran in 1988; he ran again 20 years later. Now we’re more than a decade past his last grab for power, and Biden, as he nears 80, thinks his day has come
Tuesday
The curious candidacy of William Weld
The former Massachusetts governor is entirely a figure of the past. Why is he running?
Monday
How Biden loses
He’s just a familiar face who entails the fewest risks
Thursday
Has Trumpism hit the wall?
Trump remains the strongest force in the GOP. But what comes after him?
Why Beto is a Beta
He might think himself the next Bill Clinton, but he’s probably the next John Edwards
Friday
To win, the Democrats need to be more like Trump
Beyond hating the president, the party has little to offer. That needs to change if they want success in 2020
Thursday
Why libertarians are wrong
They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one
Wednesday
The Democrats don’t have a star
Name recognition and star power split the 2020 field
Sunday
The NeverTrumpers never learn
The 2020 attempts to ‘primary’ Donald Trump will be even more pathetic than 2016
Sunday
What makes a liberal want to punch a child?
The progressive media doesn’t care about what really happened when it has white boys in MAGA caps to hate
Monday
How character counts with Donald Trump
The quality that counts in a president is whether he suits the needs of the country at a given moment
Thursday
Donald Trump is a man of peace – his enemies are a war machine
War brings our elite together
Friday
Don’t blame Trump for the demise of the Weekly Standard
Its value lay in the fact it was an insider magazine
Saturday
Mourn Bush Sr, but don’t celebrate him for what he did to America and the world
From our UK edition
This article was originally published on Spectator USA. George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s 41st president, became a figure of nostalgia long before he died Friday night. He was already a symbol of the Oval Office’s lost dignity within months of his departure from the White House, following his loss to Bill Clinton in the 1992
Sunday
The way Trump wins again
In 2020, if Trump prevails in either Michigan or Pennsylvania, and holds Ohio and Florida, he is almost assured victory
Friday
Don’t blame Libertarians or Greens when your party loses
In defense of third-party voters
