Do Americans have the moral courage to do what is right and choose leaders who will refrain from antagonizing their fellow Americans on partisan grounds?
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A Short Word: Choosing Barabbas
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But Isn’t Trump Worth It?
Should conservatives of conscience continue to oppose Donald Trump's crony corporatist presidency or, given what Donald Trump has allegedly accomplished over the last two years, accept his glaring character flaws and manifest corruption as simply the price of admission?
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The End Of The Bad Old Days
While the economy continues to churn along even into 2018, well beyond what I had predicted, two recent events indicate that the gravy train may finally be coming to a long overdue halt.
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From Bad to Worse: The Post Obama America
As bad as Obama's eight year tenure may have been, the well meaning incompetence, naive mismanagement, and embarrassing diplomacy of his presidency pales next to the rolling dumpster fire of Donald Trump's moral turpitude, naked crony corporatism, and manifest legal malfeasance.
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Red State of Denial: Paul Manafort Rolls
Paul Manafort, long time confidant and 2016 campaign manager for president Donald Trump, has finally rolled.
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The 4 Leaders of Morality and Wisdom
In American parlance, however, the gist of all great Chinese works is neatly, if bluntly, summarized with the English truism: The tone is set from the top.
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Is “Anti-Intellectual” The New Patriotic?
Many simply don't know what to believe anymore, so they believe the avalanche of nonsense just to have something, anything, to believe in.
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Dow Jones Loses Third of Gains since 2017
As of yesterday, the DJI has only 24.64% of its gains since that date, representing a loss of roughly a third of its gains.
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A Typical Week in the Trump Era
Does anyone else feel like they are going slowly insane?
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Brain Drain: Trump Derangement Syndrome
The choice between Trump and the good was not a hard choice. It is tragic so many have chosen their idols over the truth.
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Tyranny Actual: Trump’s Border War
Once upon a time in America, conservatives believed our borders should be "open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here", but that time seems to have passed.
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America Descending: The Reality TV Presidency
Remember when Trump's handlers and supporters claimed that the Republican Party would work with Trump to keep him focused on "making America great again", doubling down on the promise that the men and women around Donald Trump would be capable of driving Trump's agenda while allowing "Trump to be Trump"?
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The Generation Gap Will End The GOP
In less than 4 years, the Republicans destroyed what it'd taken them 8 years to build.
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Rustbelt Politics & The Death of America
The only rational path to solving America's Rustbelt isn't going to be punishing the rest of the world for not adopting the same bad policies that have put millions of American workers, largely minorities, out of the workforce for generations and seriously damaged our ability to compete in an increasingly global economy.
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The GOP: All-In on the Wild Card
For better or worse, the Republican Party has placed its bet on Donald Trump, and the fate of the party is inextricably linked with his.
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The Sinkhole of Freedom: Politics and Social Media
Abandoning all pretense of holding political ideals of freedom and equality, Trump's supporters have dragged American politics down into the ideological sinkhole of Trump's "say anything about anyone" populist nationalist politics.
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The Case for #NeverTrump in 2018
Has the time come for principled conservatives to stop opposing Donald Trump's presidency?
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Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles
It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.
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A Healthy Dose of Skepticism
Skepticism, not trust, of our political class is the American tradition, and those who demand political fealty to their political leader betray that tradition.
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Follow Truth, Always
Conservatives have an obligation to be truth tellers, holding fast to principles of rationalism and honesty, even if we do it alone.
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Take Them At Their Word
Take Trump supporters at their word that Trumpism necessarily assumes White Nationalism, because it does.
