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Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 17, 2026
To those U.S. military veterans who were once friendly readers of my writing but turned against me when they fell under the spell of the dumbest and most corrupt man ever to run for commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and who pooh-poohed my criticisms of said dunderhead with refusals to accept his own frequent pro-despot words (and later policies) at face value,...
For a generation or more, Republicans have built a substantial and ardent, albeit frustrated, grassroots voter base largely on the mantra, implied or directly stated, that the Democrats are trying to shift America toward despotism. The entire array of opinion sources that are generally collected under the term “conservative media” have built their considerable audience on the more explicit form of that mantra....
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