Well, it should be obvious at this point... shouldn't it?
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Fighting the Tyranny of the Ignorant
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America’s Idiot Problem Is Just Beginning
Three out of every ten Americans actually believes that urinating on carpets and crapping on floors is "patriotic".
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2020 has revealed our dangerous nationalist biases
As far as 2020 is concerned, however, good riddance to this year of plagues, despots, and fascist paranoia.
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A Short Word: An Idiot’s Idiot
Now the Trump administration and his cronies have finally begun to take the pandemic seriously, but the reality is that it's far too little and far too late.
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The Trump-Ukraine Scandal Explained
There is a scandal, and it very much is impeachable.
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The Media Doesn’t Understand Trumpism
Trump's base isn't monolithic, philosophically, economically, psychologically, or even politically, though they all turn a blind eye to Trump's incompetence, his degeneracy, and his ignorance.
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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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Busting 4 of Trump’s Economic Myths
[O]ne thing Trump is very good at is claiming responsibility for the things that are going right for the United States economy, but these claims don't actually hold up to any rigorous scrutiny.
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A Short Word: Lost In The Crowd
If real conservatism, the kind that would be recognized by Buckley and Reagan, really be worth fighting for, conservatives should fight for it.
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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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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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The Case for #NeverTrump in 2018
Has the time come for principled conservatives to stop opposing Donald Trump's presidency?
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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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An Epidemic of Cowardice
Like all emotions, fear clouds judgment, but fear, from its seat deep within the brain stem, has more power to simply turn off rational thought than any other human emotion.
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A Short Word: Why I am NeverTrump
For the sake of posterity, here are seventeen reasons that I proudly remain #NeverTrump.
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In The Shadow of the Russian Bear
Abandoning a core tenet of western civilization is the opposite of conservatism.
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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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Pomp, Adulation, and Avarice
The Republic has been through this fire before and need not go through it again.
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A Short Word: Why the “Middle Class Voter” is Insane
As much fun as wasting precious days of our lives pushing a repugnant, center left moderate Republican in another doomed election would be, ideological conservatives have better things to do.
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A Short Word: Why NeverTrump?
The result of such a decision is as functionally irrelevant as the choice between being shot in the left temple as opposed to in the right temple.
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