Any faultless ant hill is still infinitely less than the most flawed human being, and it is the latter that our society and institutions should empower.
The establishment spent the past four years panicking, not that a demagogue might undo democracy in the West but that a Republican might remind the West that it is democratic.
The populists on the Left and Right are both knights and the establishment is a dragon. The two groups agree mainly on what constitutes America’s problems. Can they work together?
A dynamo with a role to play in the life of both the Republican Party and the conservative-populist renaissance now underway, Burra has spent his life leaning into fights . . . and into trouble.