Category Archives: Politics

NYT: Trump’s Success Carries Lessons for Democrats, Too

With Trump dominating the night, the NYT just posted this nameless, disembodied Editorial: With Trump surging to his highest delegate count (and highest national polling rates to date), and his path to the nomination increasingly imminent, even the NYT is … Continue reading

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2016: GOP Lessons

“What Will Republicans Learn from 2016?” ask NR’s Jim Geraghty: If Trump wins the nomination, what lasting ideological impact will his success have on the GOP? Trump’s campaign represents nothing less than an attempt to completely redefine the Republican coalition … Continue reading

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The “Strange Viral Appeal” of NeoRx

Wow, things appear to moving fast. I never expected, not for another 15 to 20 years, a NYT columnist to devote an entire column, in this election cycle no less, on the Neoreactionaries (a subset of the Alt-Right). In his … Continue reading

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Nationalism Rising; The Oganizer Getting Worried

The Alt-Right has made electoral history in Austria: Norbert Hofer, the candidate for Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ), won 36.4 per cent of the vote, and will face an independent candidate in the final vote next month. It was the … Continue reading

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Effective Agitprop

A clever, and fitting, Trump graphic, from his Twitter site:

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Trumpism vs. Clintonism

In Vanity Fair, T.A. Frank writes on “Why Democrats Are Becoming the Party of the 1 Percent”: Will rich people suffer if [Donald Trump] is elected president? Well, yes. Yes, they will. Because we all will. But that’s a pat … Continue reading

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Boinie Was Kicked Out of a Commune in ‘71

Uncle Boinie, it’s alleged, was a pontificating blowhard, spewing theoretical Leftism to such a degree that even utopian, neo-communist hippies had enough: Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for “sitting around and talking” about politics … Continue reading

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The Organizer, Student Loans, and ‘Disability’

And so it begins: The Obama administration on Monday began sending letters to nearly 400,000 people with permanent disabilities, in an attempt to help them through the process of discharging their student loans. The U.S. Department of Education last week … Continue reading

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Garbutt, NY

Kevin Williamson’s pompous NR piece titled “Father-Fuhrer” (take a wild guess who the article was about) has rightly found legs amongst the Alt-Right commentariat, as Williamson’s smug cuckservatism perfectly embodies just how wide the gap is between GOP Inc elites … Continue reading

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Time Magazine on the Alt-Right

Time magazine — yes, Time magazine — has a profile of the Alt-Right, vis-à-vis Richard Spencer’s recent conference on Trump and White Identity. The article is currently only accessible with subscription (lol), but Radix Journal has some excerpts. “Trump has … Continue reading

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