Plumbing the depths of Donald Trump’s voter base, I wonder if maybe Mr Trump thinks it’s bottomless. It isn’t, and while a master chess player in the art of negotiation, I hope he remembers that most of his voters are better at checkers.…
Category: Conservatism
The Jefferson-Hamilton Handshake, The 2 x 4 Version
The bulk of this essay was first written in 2010 when serious conservatives saw the GOP Establishment merely as shameless cravens, part- Stockholm Syndrome to their more masculine Democrat betters, across the aisle, and part what I’ve referred to elsewhere…
War-Gaming the Coming War IV; The Bureaucracy
Of all the inside-enemies Donald Trump has, the bureaucracy is the one he knows best, for he has been butting heads with it for well over forty years. Therefore, he’s saved me a thousand words in telling you what he…
Foreward to the Revised Edition, “How the American People Found Donald Trump”
March 2017, Richmond Donald Trump has been president now for less than two months, and remarkably, he seems to be keeping to his promises despite legions of opponents lined up to turn his path away from keeping those promises. The coming scuffle…
Riff Raff Runways
(First written in 2010 at RedState.com, reprised, without edit, by popular demand. A little dated but still a good tale.) Are riff-raff runways in America’s future? I’ll bet you didn’t know that Europe has had them for years, at least…