Recently, Hillary Clinton gave her take on the Bernie Sanders voters, as being wide-eyed naifs still living in their parents’ basement. Since conservatives have partaken of these kinds of jests about those kids for years, but for other reasons, the distinction between the…
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Donald Trump and the People’s Existential Threat
This is an update on a theme I raised in February 2016, “Donald Trump and the People” as I think the people see their existential threat more clearly now than they did seven months ago. In that article I tried to…
Putting the #NeverTrump Syndrome on the Couch
On closer inspection, it appears that NeverTrumpism is more than just a vanity built on elitism and status protection. It’s not unlike that choice between comfort and gut-check with My Generation, when our best and brightest came to its crossroads (Vietnam) and the best went…
The Missing “Buckley-Factor” in Publius Decius Mus’ Historic Essay
If you haven’t heard, a fellow (I assume) named Publius Decius Mus penned an anonymous, 10-page essay at the Claremont College website, entitled the “Flight 93 Election“ It’s a near-masterpiece, even historic. While I have argued virtually every point raised…
It Seems Black Voters are Hiding From Fox News Pollsters In the Same Places White Voters Are
In plain sight As Donald Trump gave a rousing speech to black churchgoers in Detroit, where blacks are known to sit on their hands if they don’t like a candidate, a timed Fox News Poll reported only 1% of polled…