Impeachment is a bad bet for everyone
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Democrats are so fixated on bringing Trump down that they continue to ignore why he was elected in the first place
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Tuesday
Tuesday
John Bolton is gone — Boltonism isn’t
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
Monday
Mark Sanford’s hopeless politics of debt
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Libertarianism can’t deliver when it’s so indifferent toward nationhood
Monday
Joe Biden won’t beat Donald Trump
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
Tuesday
Liberalism cannot stop the shootings
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These murderers do not have a conscience; they do not have any reflexive empathy or sense of humanity
Wednesday
The Democrats’ stillborn revolution
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The tepid centrists may not be inspiring, but they signify a problem for the likes of Sanders and Warren
Wednesday
The nationalist surprise
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The movement is beginning because conventional politics is at an end
Tuesday
Ross Perot was the populist who betrayed populism
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By failing to team up with Pat Buchanan, he set back his cause by 20 years
Thursday
Justin Amash is the anti-Ron Paul
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He ’ s teaching libertarians how to lose
Friday
The Democrats are too fake for 2020
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The politics of recitation is enough for ordinary time. But America is in the midst of serious change
Monday
After 30 years of bad wars, who thinks one with Iran will be good?
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Trump, Bolton, and the pathological cycle of failed conflicts
Friday
Is Roy Moore the post-Trump future?
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In the deepest red of Republican states, an accused pedophile is more popular than the GOP’s leadership
Wednesday
Facebook is the world’s worst coffee house
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The social media giant is bad for the press and bad for freedom
Thursday
America’s war games
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
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Washington and Moscow should be careful what they wish for
Wednesday
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
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
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The former Massachusetts governor is entirely a figure of the past. Why is he running?
Monday
How Biden loses
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He’s just a familiar face who entails the fewest risks
Thursday
Has Trumpism hit the wall?
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Trump remains the strongest force in the GOP. But what comes after him?
Why Beto is a Beta
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He might think himself the next Bill Clinton, but he’s probably the next John Edwards