Category Archives: Republican Party

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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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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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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The ‘Europeanization’ of U.S. Politics

Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, pens a NYT op-ed titled “America Hasn’t Gone Crazy. It’s Just More Like Europe.” Krastev is quite obviously a man of the Left but nonetheless sees the 2016 U.S. race for … Continue reading

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The Snake

Within a typical and rather mediocre New Yorker piece on Trump is this: In his rallies, he has taken to giving dramatic readings of the lyrics of a song, by Al Wilson, called “The Snake,” which he presents as a parable … Continue reading

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Erick Erickson: “Trump Voters Have Failed at Life”

From Breitbart: It seems like every day, Donald Trump compels someone in the Republican establishment or the conservative industrial complex to reveal their character, who they are, and what they really think. And it’s ugly. Today, Erick Erickson said that … Continue reading

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Mexican Flag on Trump Tower

Diego Saul Reyna, a (legal? Illegal? Does it really matter anymore?) Mexican construction worker has hung a Mexican flag on the roof of Trump Towner in Vancouver, Canada, and then posted a photo of it on his FB page: WHY … Continue reading

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Politico: “Watching My South Fall for Trump”

“Watching My South Fall for Donald Trump” is a featured Politico piece written by Issac J. Bailey. “His popularity has revealed a dark truth about the region,” intones the byline, quite ominously. It’s a piece that starts off like a … Continue reading

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Tablet: Partial Trumpenfuhrer Roundup

Tablet, one of the myriad online publications oriented towards Jewish audiences and interests, is All Things Trump these days. In “Who Are Trump’s Alt-Right Supporters?”, Armin Rosen writes: Among the many bizarre quirks of this presidential election is the fact … Continue reading

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