Category Archives: Politics

Colin Powell Quotes

Today we learned Colin Powell emailed a friend the following: “I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year-old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband … Continue reading

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Hindsight

Saw this one via Mickey Kaus:

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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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#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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The French Right: Living in Liberals’ Heads, Rent Free

From a NYT book review of Mark Lilla’s book The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction: The second half of Lilla’s book explores recent reactionary thought on both sides of the Atlantic, on the political left as well as the right. … Continue reading

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