Forty-odd years ago, Reagan defined the Republican coalition as a three-legged stool. These legs may not have pointed in entirely different directions the way that anarcho-communism, technocratic populism, or global nativism would, but they certainly didn’t hold the same centering base principles. Functionally, definitionally opposed and cross-purposed to one another, they all the same began…
Mary Rose Corkery on April 20, 2021 Former President George W. Bush commented on the present-day Republican Party on Tuesday and said it wasn’t what he had envisioned. “I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist and to a certain extent nativist,” Bush said on “The TODAY Show.” The former president said that the GOP’s platform…
After the 2020 election, there were several articles on the future of the Libertarian Party (LP) fighting to be heard in a controlled political duopoly system of Democrats and Republicans. In “Guerrilla Politics,” the author argues that the LP should admit it cannot win significant elections, that ballot access is a “vanity project,” and the…
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Congress voted to approve the American Rescue Plan, President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. Contrary to its name, the plan does little to ‘rescue’ average Americans. Much like the CARES Act, the American Rescue Plan is an omnibus budget bill, which allows Democrats to use the budget…
Robin E. Best, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Steve B. Lem, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Election Day delivered a presidential victory for the Democratic Party and narrowed the partisan split in the U.S. House and Senate. But it was nevertheless a victory for Republicans in the battle every decade to draw state…
In the weeks following the election, many on the left—Democrats and Never-Trumpers alike—have been reveling in claiming victory for their candidate, Vice President Joe Biden. This is somewhat understandable. Political victories are often like sporting events. One team wins over their rival, and they have bragging rights until the next time they meet (in this…
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -H.L. Mencken Libertarians are sometimes described as being “conservative on economic issues” and “liberal on social issues.” Sometimes we even describe ourselves that way. I’ve never been really comfortable with this, for several reasons: There is often a fine line between an “economic” issue and…
“You’re going to find really wonderful, well-meaning, well spoken people, and then people who are just bat-shit crazy.” -Gov. Gary Johnson, 2012 and 2016 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, when asked about the Libertarian National Convention Libertarians, whether they are in the Libertarian Party or skulking about the fringes of the Republican Party, are a notoriously…
Nancy Pelosi was caught having her hair done indoors at a salon in violation of California’s COVID-19 lockdown mandate. BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi's office has confirmed the speaker got her hair cut indoors in a San Francisco salon, but released a statement claiming she didn't know she'd done anything wrong. https://t.co/cEEr1p074r — KTVU (@KTVU) September 1,…
Joe Biden’s pick for VP pick shouldn’t sit well with anyone who cares about criminal justice reform or Black Lives Matter as he announced Kamala Harris would be his 2020 running mate. As I predicted @JoeBiden picked @KamalaHarris for his VP running mate. This should be the kiss of death for his campaign. Obviously black…