The energetic dispatch with which liberals throw -ism charges at conservatives and Republicans is no surprise, and the targets are right to invoke civic principles in response. But sometimes it’s better to raise the other side’s past as a worthy contrast to its degraded present. This isn't how Democratic politicians have always talked.
Many conservatives did not see that Trump had framed the 2016 election as a choice between two mutually exclusive regimes: multiculturalism and America. What I call “multiculturalism” includes “identity politics” and “political correctness.” If multiculturalism continues to worm its way into the public mind, it will ultimately destroy America. Consequently, the election should
For the past few years, members of the media have called Donald Trump a threat to democracy and a treasonous traitor, all while repeatedly intimating that he is mentally unfit to serve as president. And that was just what was printed in the New York Times. CNN and MSNBC, as a matter of
The Democrats’ trashing of the Constitution did not end with the Kavanaugh confirmation battle but now rambles on with their denunciations of the fundamental institutions of American republican government. They will continue their attack on the electoral process with their disparagement of the Electoral College. Next up, we hear rumblings about the supposed
We are one American nation. We must unite. We have to unify. We have to come together.” Every faction in our irreparably fractious and fragmented country calls for unity, following events that demonstrate just how disunited the United States of America is. They all do it. Calls for unity come loudest from the
One of the greatest feats of 20th-century military engineering, has gone down in history as a byword for futility. During the 1930s the French government, preparing for a resurgent Germany, created a massive system of fixed fortifications along its border with Germany that became known as the Maginot Line. All of the lessons
On the morning of March 16, 1916, with World War I already raging in Europe but America still neutral, the Mexican bandito Pancho Villa led a military raid on the dusty border town of Columbus, New Mexico. At that time, New Mexico had just passed the fourth anniversary of its statehood and remained
We live in strange times. Since the election of Donald Trump, it has often seemed as though half the country has gone blind or, more likely, lost the ability to see beyond their noses. The divisions that have resulted are so deep they have split us effectively into two nations, damaging and destroying
The Left has never understood what made “Make America Great Again” resonate with so many people. We heard their mystification at the notion loud and clear from Democrat front runner for 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who actually said, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”
Sometime around 2009, the term “basic bitch” or—with extra salt—“basic white bitch” began to creep into common American parlance. In essence, it means “a female who conforms to her surroundings and claims she is unique.” The more clueless she is about her basic tastes, the more basic she is. And as with all
