Senior Writer @NRO. author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Making sense of the disruptive politics of the 21st century.
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Column today: Why did National Populism Disrupt the Right?
tl;dr Globalization sets economic integration against national sovereignty and democracy.
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The primal screams that have been suppressed for ten years are finally coming out and no, they don’t make a lot of sense when translated into little essays and arguments.
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Warren Buffet, 2006
Fun day at @NRO. We’ve launched a new website, returned to our original brand identity and for the first time time, we’ve put the entire archive of National Review online. nationalreview.com/corner/a-…
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Robert Kagan: “Iran does not have the capability to strike American territory, and Trump's FP should be focused on national security: I don’t see how Iran threatens those interests..." [The war] "has been conducted essentially in Israel’s interest.” foglioeuropeo.ilfoglio.it/en…
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Consider: I'm far smarter than you and far more malevolent, and yet I still haven't taken over your life.
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51% of **Republicans** want Congress to pass legislation ending the Iran war
No no, what voters dislike is the Vanceguard wreckers and the MOU.
The Real Wages of Delusion.
Contra a politically correct narrative circulating on the right, the war put real wages into decline, and voters are very clear that they think the war itself was a problem, and wanted it ended even if it doesn't achieve the president's objections.
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There goes the “nobody is denying the war was a part of it” talking point. wsj.com/opinion/it-was-the-e…
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I've been won over pretty much completely to Douthat as TV interviewer. He not only extracted more information than most people do when sitting down with this president, but he managed to drop some pretty funny asides without making the conversation about himself.
Two thoughts on this:
1. A man so consumed with hatred that he’d rather go to hell than forgive his enemies is a tragedy. I’d pity him if he was my neighbor or president.
2. This is the most interesting Trump interview I’ve seen in a long time. Feeling good about my prediction that @Douthat60 would be great on 60 Minutes.
Having looked carefully at the polls, the second term slide for Trump started on inauguration day. Conclusion: Republicans should not inaugurate their next president.
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The accumulating data showing that it was the collapse of Trump turnout, rather than crossover voting, that wiped out the GOP further undercuts the idea that tariffs were the main culprit. Trump ran on tariffs; would his voters stay home because of them? Iran better explains.
