Now that the Republicans have officially lost the presidency and the U.S. Senate, a big question making the rounds is: “What will the post-Trump Republican Party look like?” I see five possible ways it might all play out: Trump 2: Keep America Greaterer Again! The question itself is inherently faulty, because it assumes Donald Trump…
On Monday, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley continued his quest to crush Big Tech by releasing a radical plan to overhaul the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Hawley proposes replacing the FTC’s five-member commission with a single Director, who would report directly to the Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice (DOJ). His plan would also…
At first glance, the new nationalism of conservatives will seem benign and even uncontroversial. In his book “The Case for Nationalism,” Rich Lowry defines nationalism as flowing from a people’s “natural devotion to their home and to their country.” Yoram Hazony, in his book “The Virtue of Nationalism,” also has a rather anodyne definition of…
Liz Cheney and Rand Paul have been in a feud for years, and it seems increasingly apparent that the struggle is for the future direction of the party. Will it be Cheney’s interventionist conservatism? Or Paul’s libertarian brand of Republicanism? Cynthia Lummis is a liberty Republican who was quickly endorsed by Senators Rand Paul and…
In every presidential election, the Republican candidate runs as a conservative promising to reduce the debt and deficit. The promises have been made for so many decades that they have created a myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives determined to reduce the National Debt and the Democrats are crazy, uncontrolled spenders. In the 2016 election,…
At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Manners are missing; ethics are being eliminated; culture is corrupted; social attitudes are supercilious; virtues are vanishing; literature is mostly licentious; industry and commerce are materialistically crude and callous; and humaneness is hamstrung by greed and selfishness. It’s the…
Economic libertarians are people convinced of the practical and moral legitimacy of the commercial society. Here’s a warning to those who self-identify: you are seriously under assault from the left and the right, not to mention an army of regulators and tax-hungry bureaucrats, and moralists of all stripes. It seems incredible: Civilization has never been…
Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg have no prisons. They’ve never run an internment camp or seized anyone’s home for failure to mow their lawn. Their body counts are a combined zero. Yet in a recent keynote address at the National Conservatism conference, Tucker Carlson suggested that big corporations—like Google, Twitter, and Facebook—are a greater threat…
Nick Givas MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart called Mississippi a “fortress of conservatism” and “racism” on “AM Joy” Sunday and said the state has a reputation for “backwardness.” https://youtu.be/XtKiyn2OA84?t=228 Capehart was discussing the upcoming runoff election between GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy when he began bashing Mississippi voters and their values. “This is as much a cultural vote…
In Every Crisis… An Opportunity! As the nation turns its eyes towards my home state of Missouri to analyze President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit, the Republican Party faces an ideological and factional fork in the road. The conservative and libertarian movements have suffered grievous setbacks over the past few years, both ideologically, and one electorally….