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…
Jonathan Schulman, Northwestern University No matter the outcome of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, the Republican Party must now decide whether to maintain or abandon Trump-era policies during the Biden administration. Among them is Trump’s “America First” foreign policy agenda. Trump portrayed the United States as a dominant, self-sufficient world leader that needs little but subservience…
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…
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…
Trump 2024? Forget it. President Donald Trump has lost to former Vice President Joe Biden. The Democrats ran their second worst candidate in the 21st century, and Trump could not pull it out. It would be malpractice to say that in four years he should run against Biden again. He already did that—and lost. But,…
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…
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,…
Following the Thursday night Republican National Convention, Senator Rand Paul and his wife Kelly Paul were swarmed by Black Lives Matter protesters after attempting to leave the event. Rand Paul has been fighting for police reform since he got to Congress.. and it didn't matter tonight. — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 28, 2020 The…
Democratic Presidential hopeful and Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders joined The Joe Rogan Experience podcast yesterday to discuss his candidacy and hot topics in today’s policies. Joe Rogan is a liberal with libertarian leanings – nuanced like most people. For example, he supports both the right to bear arms and universal healthcare. Some of his past…
When a Republican group asked Mark Cuban to come speak at an event, the very first thing he did was to attack not only the Republican Party, but parties in general. “Why does anybody join a political party anymore? It’s not the 1800s, when you needed to assemble. It’s not the 1900s, where you almost…