Enjoying the view from Limbo
In the immediate aftermath of the Democratic Party’s massive sweep of the midterm elections, Donald Trump is out in public pushing three main motifs, namely that “I wasn’t on the ballot, and if I had been on the ballot we would have won,” that “I will work with the Democrats,” and that the Republicans — his National Trump Yes-Man Team — lost “because...
In 1998, Harry Jaffa began a critique of the new vanguard of the American conservative movement with the following pithy summation of what was at stake: The end of the Cold War has also brought an end to the remission of the disease of moral relativism that is corroding the life of western civilization. It would certainly seem that the salvation of the...
Where is Mitch McConnell? As for where his body might be, I have no idea, although since all evidence points to his having suffered a massive heart attack, it is likely that he will never be what he was before his disappearance, and this is granting that what he was for the last couple of years before his disappearance was, if I may...
Do you remember back in the days before 2016, when tens of millions of Americans, Republican Party voters, defended the right to bear arms, against all critics, arguing that the real reason for the Second Amendment had nothing to do with hunting or recreational shooting, but was all about the God-given right of a free people to arm themselves against a potentially tyrannical...
A few hours ago, Charlie Kirk, a young man with a family, was shot dead at a university speaking event in Utah. An ugly occurrence no matter how you cut it. I notice that video of the shooting is all over the internet. I have not seen any of this video, and will do everything in my power never to see it. I...
President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” has passed the United States Senate, surviving the No votes of the only three Republican senators who are apparently still able to muster a bit of shame. For the GOP, in abject obedience to the MAGA mob and its cult leader, has just produced one of the biggest and most beautiful instantiations of everything that is wrong with...
There has been no greater gift to the American Left than Donald Trump, for he and his personality cult embody everything that the Left tried for decades to pin, falsely, on American conservatives, without much success. Suddenly with Trump, every leftist lie about conservatism became an all too horrible truth, every untenably vulgar smear all at once an inescapably vulgar reality. Except for...
America’s Republican voters used to believe, with near unanimity, that nothing was more dangerous to their country than the threat of an executive branch that sought to circumvent the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers by legislating through executive fiat, i.e., without deference to Congress, and disregarding court rulings, such as by concocting phony emergencies to justify the expansion of presidential authority beyond the...
Donald Trump has nominated Tulsi Gabbard to be his director of national intelligence. Gabbard is an overtly pro-Putin propagandist, an apologist for communist China, a willing and unmasked agent for foreign tyrants with blatantly anti-American agendas. Does Trump know this, and is he choosing her because she will compromise America’s national security for the sake of furthering totalitarian goals in Europe and East...
2024 U.S. Election / America Descending / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published July 20, 2024 · Last modified July 25, 2024
I watched approximately thirty seconds of the Republican National Convention live on the internet. The first fifteen of those seconds were devoted to a careful examination of the first half of a sentence by Donald Trump’s former press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The second fifteen second block was my intensive study of the vice presidential nomination speech of J. D. Vance, which only...
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