While many may chalk the large field of candidates up to energetic opposition to Donald Trump, let's consider another possible explanation: incompetence.
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How NOT to elect a president in 2020
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The Immigration Issue is Racism
In post-Charlottesville America, we no longer have the luxury of trying to pretend that racism in politics is strictly an invention of leftist rhetorical dogma.
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Just Grow Up: Now Trumpism Doesn’t Like Nike
Why are these entitled, thin-skinned, red capped, Republican Party goons so triggered?
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Piercing the Republican Propaganda
The Republican pundit class is lying right into our faces, pouring falsehoods and delusions right onto the heads of the tens of millions of Americans so desperate to believe in the infallibility of their political movement that they believe everything that they're told.
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Salvaging the Conservative Movement
The legacies of Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman are simply too precious to sacrifice them for a party of cowards and political charlatans.
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Crocodile Tears: Politics in the Swamp
No matter how tugged our heart strings may be, a bad policy doesn't become a good policy and a deficit doesn't become a surplus.
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Winning the Battle. Losing the War.
The question Americans should be asking isn't "How much should the wealthy be taxed?", but should be "If government demonstrably fails to solve the problems that government is supposed to be solving, why are we forced to pay taxes for essentially nothing?".
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A Short Word: Common Ground
[W]hy are you still in a political party that no longer represents you?
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How to Fail at Being Conservative…
It's past time to separate the conservative wheat from the putrid chaff of Nationalism.
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Painting the Leopard: Never Means Never
Like many conservatives in 2016 and 2017, I believed the definition of "never" was well understood and generally accepted, and when people said it, I thought I knew what they meant. I was mistaken.
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How Pushing Price Over Principle Is Killing Conservatism
Whether you agree in whole, in part, or not at all with Reagan's politics, let's agree that Ronald Wilson Reagan could be considered a "subject matter expert" on American conservatism.
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Tug of War
The fight for conservatism has devolved into a fight for the very soul of the conservative movement.
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A Short Word: You Are Here
American voters have put a gun to the head of America's future in an ultimate game of Russian Roulette.
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The Measure of a Man
Our society depends on objective measures, whether physical or moral, and there exists one set of standards against which we can justly judge the words and deeds of men and women.
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Losing Washington
Only when we find ourselves again, when Liberty is written on the hearts of every man and woman, when we remember who we once were, only then will we deserve "the greatest man in the world".
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A Short Word: Americanism
To the first generations of American citizens, personal virtue, especially in the leaders of the day, was often more important than their political beliefs.
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A Short Word: Tearing Down The Wall
Ideological conservatives must separate themselves from the philosophical barbarism of nationalists, because we ultimately have nothing in common with their brand of blind nationalist collectivist nativism.