Author Archives: Max West

A Nationalist Eastern Europe

In Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky has a column titled “A Nationalist Eastern Europe Could Reshape the EU”: Post-Communist nations have taken two decades to decide what they are, and the decision is almost unanimous: They are countries based on strong national … Continue reading

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Flashback: The Kid From Brooklyn

Here’s a couple of oldies but goodies from ‘The Big Man’ (RIP).

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Trump is a Bonobo Hitler

At the top of the NYT.com site, adjacent to other word associations that Trump is Hitler — e.g., Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” comment; yet another NYT story (in 2016, no less) on David Duke — is a story on Grrl … Continue reading

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The Flight 93 Election – Redux

I just read “The Flight 93 Election” by Publius Decius Mus, a very well written ‘Trump By Default’ position piece, which Rush Limbaugh essentially advertised to millions earlier this week. In The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf has an entire critique of … Continue reading

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Charlie Don’t Surf!

When they’re not molesting girls in European swimming pools, they’re drowning: Record numbers of migrants are dying in Germany’s rivers and lakes as they enter the waters despite being unable to swim, according to the country’s lifeguard association. The German … Continue reading

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#BasketofDeplorables

Here’s a whopper in HC’s continually uplifting, inspirational, and aspirational campaign theme: New York (CNN) – Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors Friday night that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into “the basket of deplorables,” meaning people who … Continue reading

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What Unites Conservatives

“I think that, in the end, there is something that unites all conservatives, which is that they are pursuing something they love. My view is that the Left is united by hatred, but we are united by love: love of … Continue reading

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Trump Immigration Speech (1995)

Here’s Bill Clinton in 1995 (Hat tip: S. Sailer). How things change. What happened between 1995 and now? Political Correctness. And way more illegal immigration.

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How Youth is (Not?) Wasted on the Young

From CNN (of all places!): It might be time to rethink the millennial voter. A new paper suggests that Americans are more politically polarized now than they’ve been in the past 46 years, and millennials are guiding this trend. The … Continue reading

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The Flight 93 Election

The most talked about Alt Right piece this week was inarguably “The Flight 93 Election” by Publius Decius Mus. (I haven’t had a chance to read the piece, but intend to.) At VDARE, James Kirkpatrick fills us in: [The late … Continue reading

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