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America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published February 8, 2026 · Last modified February 9, 2026
Donald Trump is trying to execute in the 2026 midterm elections the same strategy he used in the 2020 presidential election: Start telling people months ahead of the election that the Democrats are planning massive voter fraud, though without providing any evidence to support this; on election night, stand up and declare that the election fraud he predicted has really happened, though without...
America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost / What is The Establishment?
by Daren Jonescu · Published September 25, 2025
Back on November 9th, 2020, in the immediate aftermath of Joe Biden’s election victory (known to this day among Trump loyalists as “The Steal”), I wrote here of the short-term future of America’s two main political factions. In that rumination, I posed a couple of questions about the prospects for the respective factions in 2024, questions which time has now firmly answered, though...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / What is The Establishment?
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 1, 2025
In the past few days, Donald Trump has publicly floated the idea of granting a presidential pardon to a convicted serial sex trafficker and child abuser, even sending his own personal lawyer, who also happens to be the deputy attorney general of the United States, to meet with that vile creature to discuss her terms. Now, as an obvious adjunct of this transparently...
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...
Remember how, back in the formative days of the so-called Tea Party conservative movement, the Republican grassroots mocked and ridiculed a woman who infamously gushed about how, if Barack Obama were elected president, he would pay her mortgage and put gas in her car? Today, these same Tea Partiers are listening to Donald Trump’s spokescheerleader answering a reporter’s question about whether the White...
Sleep tight.– All this, so that seventy million frightened children may dream unto their graves, and finally unto their own private parcel of hell, in the warm cocoon of the most shameful mass delusion in world history. If their idol dies first, what will they do? I almost typed “frightened American children,” but decided not to sully the memory of a great country...
Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 20, 2025 · Last modified March 27, 2025
Since my website has essentially become a repository of judgments and reflections that almost no one currently alive on this planet will ever read, let alone care about, why not open it up today for the words of another man in a similar situation, though one whose voice speaks with considerably more practical urgency than mine? His pleas will fall on ears at...
America is over now. That is sad, and I do not relish this tone of catastrophe, but I believe nothing can save it from here on out. Wealth exists there, and may continue to exist for a while, because the country has been reduced to little but wealth production, and the government is owned by people who, to put it mildly, will not...
Victor Davis Hanson, the favorite historian of American conservatives, continues the magic thinking of the MAGA cult’s educated minority, which finds ever more imaginative ways of persuading itself and its lobotomized audience (the MAGA majority) that Donald Trump is somehow the solution to all the problems he causes. The key to this magic thinking is the not-so-subtle art of obscuring or denying the...
Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped out of the Republican Party primaries in a manner that perfectly completes the first stage of his campaign to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate. He is the one primary candidate who at no point in the process had any intention of winning the primaries or setting himself up as a serious contender. His whole purpose all along,...
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