Middle Americans, feeling a gap in their lives, have chosen President Trump, much like they chose President Obama in 2008, to fill that gap, explains Timothy P. Carney in The American Conservative. Carney writes (abridged): If you’ve ever been to a Donald Trump rally, you’ll notice it doesn’t match the impression left by the […]

Before there was Obama, there was Woodrow Wilson, “the most dramatically progressive president we’d ever had,” writes Michael Walsh in American Greatness. Wilson morphed the annual State of the Union speech into what it has become today: “the hot air that keeps the Capitol dome inflated,” with its stupefying length and “a laundry list of […]

In The American Conservative, Daniel Larison outlines the loathing other administration officials feel for John Bolton, whom he calls reckless and incompetent. There have been rumors of possible replacement for Bolton as bad news line after bad news line piles up in the National Security Advisor’s wake. Larison writes (abridged): If Bolton(John) is “under attack” […]

At The American Spectator, Dov Fischer asks President Trump to keep the government closed for two years if that’s what it takes to get the funding he’s requesting for the wall on the southern border. Fischer writes (abridged): I don’t know about you, but I am enjoying the 25% Government shutdown. I really am. This is […]

In The American Conservative today, Pat Buchanan charges Mitt Romney with collaborating with the enemy of his party. The Washington Post, where Romney was allowed to publish an anti-Trump tirade, is the most “anti-Trump organ in the American establishment,” say Pat. He writes (abridged): If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment […]

Does the West have the will to survive? That’s what president Trump asked in a speech in Poland in July 2017. It would seem from the actions of the elite politicians of Europe and the United States that the answer is no. Unfettered immigration from the third world, and a globalism that places the interests […]

A lot has been written not only amongst progressives but also conservatives about Donald Trump and the issue of his character. One NeverTrumper at NRO writes, “(Trump’s) insults are not simply an act; they are the product of astonishing levels of narcissism, insecurity, and intellectual incuriosity. Trump’s Twitter account is simply a window into his […]

A skirmish has broken out between Ed Morrow, a writer who regularly contributes to the online publication, American Greatness, among others, and Jonah Goldberg, who writes for the National Review and is a fellow at the heavily neocon American Enterprise Institute. In the paleo-conservative oriented online version of The American Spectator, Morrow calls out Goldberg’s […]

The “government shutdown” is causing a lot of “bellyaching amongst the army of Democrat-voting bureaucrats, but what doesn’t occur to them is the last person who cares about offending these folk is President Donald Trump. As Michael Walsh reminds readers of American Greatness, “Trump has brought the nation to this happy pass: not simply for […]

In The American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord reviews a new book, Trump’s Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency, by former Trump aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie. Lord writes: President Donald Trump has enemies. So too has every president had them. But there is something about Trump that has created a veritable hornet’s nest of […]