Author Archives: Max West

Georgetown Prof: Trump Does Have Ideas

Joshua Mitchell, Professor of Government at Georgetown University, has a piece in Politico titled “Donald Trump Does Have Ideas—and We’d Better Pay Attention to Them”. Mitchell begins with the basic assumption of GOPE #NeverTrumpers: Most of the commentary about Trump … Continue reading

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There Are No Barriers

From Fox News Latino (sigh): UNITED NATIONS –  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday defended the need to protect migrants and noted that “history shows that there are no barriers that can stop the movement of people.” “There are … Continue reading

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Trump Shatters GOP Records with Small Donors

From Politico: Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented deluge of small-dollar donations for the GOP, and one that Republican Party elders have dreamed about finding for much of the last decade as they’ve watched a succession of Democrats — Barack … Continue reading

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Larry Summers’ Radical Idea

Larry Summers’ “How to embrace nationalism responsibly” op-ed, cited in my previous post, contains the following elemental axiom: A new approach has to begin from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of citizens, … Continue reading

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Michael Lind on ‘Liberaltarianism’

In National Review, of all places, Michael Lind has good piece on “The Open-Borders ‘Liberaltarianism’ of the New Urban Elite”: Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in the United States and Europe, and the crack-up of the old center-left … Continue reading

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General Election Rule #1

As the events of this weekend attest to, there is nothing that can happen (in the world) between now and November 7th that benefits Hillary. In other words, can you think of anything likely to happen in the world between … Continue reading

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Kristof: Muslim ‘Refugees’ = Jewish Refugees of WW2

One of the NYT’s more effeminate columnists (bested, perhaps, only by Frank Bruni and Charles Blow) is Nicholas Kristof. His latest column in “Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis?” Take a wild guess if Trump is referenced. Sigh. … Continue reading

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Gallup: Trust in Media at All-Time Low

More good news for Trump: Trust in the media has reached another all-time low, according to a Gallup study. “Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media ‘to report the news fully, accurately and fairly’ has dropped to its lowest … Continue reading

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Sluts With Herpes 4 Hillary

Among Hillary’s Coalition of the Fringes are sluts with herpes: Hillary Clinton sent a thank you letter to a woman who gained notoriety for celebrating the fact that she was a “slut” and had contracted herpes, a sexually transmitted disease… … Continue reading

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Aeroplane – It’s So Better (1971)

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