Patrick Ruffini, Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP, Simon & Schuster, 2023, 336 pp. Patrick Ruffini, co-founder of the data analytics firm Echelon Insights, believes that the future of American conservatism lies not with the founding European stock, who are growing increasingly liberal…
One of the new features of life since Trump came back to town is that things move quickly and if you are not careful, they will move without you. Ten thousand USAID employees learned this in week one. One day they were organizing the resistance and then the next…
Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’. Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort…
Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned the Ukrainian president against attacking President Donald Trump, saying that ‘badmouthing’ him in public would only backfire. Vance spoke to DailyMail.com hours after Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Trump of living in a Russian-made ‘disinformation space.’ The extraordinary language on both sides comes at…
For many years alternative economists and “conspiracy theorists” have argued that, according to the evidence, there has been an organized criminal cabal operating a long running agenda to exploit and eventually destroy western culture. We have suggested that much of this agenda was being funded with our own tax…
What in the hell are these GOP fiscal frauds thinking? The whole point of the 1974 budget act and its mechanism of budget resolutions and reconciliation instructions was to enable elected politician to curb their propensity to spend and borrow, and to thereby put an effective lid on the…
Elon Musk’s DOGE discovered that Joe Biden’s EPA awarded $2 billion to a firm linked to failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Even worse, the firm only reported $100 in revenue in its first three months in business in 2023. How did a brand new firm that only…
President Donald Trump has ordered his agencies to scrub their regulations and spending programs to ensure illegal migrants are not getting taxpayers’ funds via hidden channels. Trump signed the Executive Order titled “Preserving Federal Benefits for American Citizens” late on Wednesday. The policy could save tens of billions of…
Last week, leaders of European governments got very upset with the new Trump administration. First, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said a return to pre-2014 Ukraine-Russia borders was an “unrealistic objective” in the coming peace negotiations and that European leaders shouldn’t assume American troops would be present on the continent…
Preface: we’re about to live through some wild times. this can cause orientation failures and the kind of fear that keeps a mind from processing what it is seeing. overton windows become phantasmagoric terror tracks when they move too fast. people lose grounding and i think it’s coming, at…
