Turns out it’s not glass, but wood. This is not about Donald Trump, but Hillary’s ongoing difficulties with her own voter base, as expressed in both ongoing polling but more importantly, measured against real performance by real liberal candidates in…
Category: Republican Party Establishment
Rush Limbaugh and the End of the Ancien Regime in America
The “Ancien Regime” was the name given to the French dynasties from the 15th Century until the monarchy was thrown down by the French Revolution in 1787. It was a bloody and cruel affair, producing a Bonaparte instead of democratic institutions, which…
How the Tea Party Replaced National Review as the Intellectual Standard Bearer for Conservatism
In March 2011 I suggested that the Tea Party had become the intellectual antidote to the Left, which was never really that difficult. But it was not so much to tweak the Left that I wrote that as to serve notice to “some conservatives”, as I postscript’d in the title,…


