When Simon & Schuster canceled their scheduled publication of US Senator Josh Hawley’s upcoming book “The Tyranny of Big Tech”, the Missouri Senator cried ‘cancel culture’! In the aftermath of the protest that turned violent on Capitol Hill, Simon & Schuster released a statement the same day, saying, ”We cannot support Senator Hawley after his…
Andrew Trunsky Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they meet in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities. The $618 billion package only slightly resembles that of the Biden administration, whose proposal is…
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…
As the dust settles after a tumultuous election year, the liberty movement faces an array of questions. Where do we go from here? How do we elect more libertarians to office? How can we bring policy discussions back toward the principles of individual liberty, smaller government, and free markets? In short—where can we be most…
Libertarians are fierce critics of what they describe as the duopoly—the dominance of just two major parties over electoral politics. And it’s easy to understand why. The Republicans and Democrats have presided over a decades-long increase in the size and scope of government at every level. If these two parties have failed to embrace the…
Andrew Trunsky on November 12, 2020 Republicans won crucial elections where Donald Trump failed, sometimes outperforming the president by wide margins. Polls leading up to Nov. 3 consistently showed Trump losing to former Vice President Joe Biden, the ultimate victor. GOP candidates similarly faced tight races, according to polls, but unlike the president, defied expectations and…
The Tea Party was born in February of 2009, shortly following the inauguration of Barack Obama. It was an opposition movement to the higher taxes and the proposed individual mandate to fund his promised ObamaCare proposal. It was a political wave that boosted Liberty Republicans into office in the 2010 midterms, such as Rand Paul,…
Andrew Trunsky on September 3, 2020 Rick Snyder, a former Republican Governor from Michigan, endorsed Joe Biden for president Thursday in an opinion column published in USA Today. Snyder, who said that he “will continue to stand up for Republican policies and values,” also said that he believes President Donald Trump has failed to unify…
We are in the year of the next presidential election. The Democratic Party is currently at its breaking point of deciding the direction of the party by choosing between candidates such as Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. These candidates each have their own path by which the Left may have to…
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) was unseated by Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) in the state’s gubernatorial race Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s race was a tight one. Beshear inched out a victory over Bevin, receiving just 49.2% of the vote. However, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is celebrating gaining 2% of the vote, which left…