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NYT: FBI Find No Links Between Trump & Russia
From Breitbart: After a months-long, deep investigation into suspected foreign meddling in the U.S. election, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has determined that Donald Trump has no ties to the Russian government. Federal officials conducted a wide investigation throughout the … Continue reading
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Politico: On Upcoming GOP Civil War
‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’ is a Politico piece with the subtitle: “In back rooms and think tanks, Republicans are already mourning their party—and plotting the fight over who’s going to be in it after Trump.” … Continue reading
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After November: George Packer
Writing in The New Yorker, which by definition means a liberal perspective, George Packer has a long piece with some interesting passages (“Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt: The Democrats lost the white working class. The Republicans exploited them. Can … Continue reading
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Principles
Let’s see… Last week, Bush Sr. told a Kennedy™ that he’s voting for Hillary. Then we had that viral photo of Michelle Obama hugging W. Today, we see that Jeb! apparently intends to vote for… drumroll…. Donald Trump… Hillary Clinton… … Continue reading
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Charles Murray on Future of GOP
Charles Murray, whose work on I.Q. as well as his sociological work on working class white America are seminal, is nonetheless a #NeverTrumper. Here he is in a recent interview: Interviewer: You are a self-described libertarian, and your latest book … Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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