Is Greenland the new frontier? Is a new “Manifest Destiny” in the air? Are we seeing a revival of historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis?” Some Trump conservatives think so. Here is Ian Ward at Politico: But in the corner […]
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What does Reinhold Niebuhr’s “spiritual discipline against resentment” look like on the fourth anniversary of January 6th?
This is a question I want to start thinking about. Today I feel full of resentment and unhealthy anger. As the Senate certified the 2024 election results, confirming Donald Trump’s electoral college victory, I could not get over the fact […]
“Once he takes office, Mr. Trump will be positioned to finish refashioning Jan. 6 as a modern Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
Tyrants rewrite history. They do so to strengthen their claim to political power. The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was based on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump’s telling of what happened on […]
Joe Biden is leaving us a country “that by many measures is in good shape.”
Here is Peter Baker at The New York Times: To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship. âOur Country is […]
Did any evangelicals “hold their nose” and vote for Donald Trump in 2024?
At Baptist News Global, Robert Jones discusses the recent post-election findings from the Public Religion Research Institute. He writes: There is no evidence to support what I have identified as two âzombie mythsâ (because they just wonât die despite lack […]
The Washington D.C. Archdiocese to Sean Feucht: Please get off our lawn
Here is MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht: Here Ruth Graham at The New York Times “Trump Transition” blog: Sean Feucht, a prominent conservative Christian activist with ties to President-elect Donald J. Trump, announced this week that he would headline a […]
Now I’m really confused
Dinesh D’Souza apologizes for “2000 Mules”
In 2022, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza produced and narrated “2000 Mules.” a conspiracist political film that claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Here is a description of the film: The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by […]
Should felons be eligible for office?
Medieval historian Beth Allison Barr recently wrote: Current contributing editor and American historian John Haas sent along this response: I hear this sentiment from a lot of people, who just assume a blanket rule barring convicted felons from holding office […]
MAGA is not about issues. It is about owning the libs
Over at The Atlantic, Elizabeth Bruenig has a theory about why Trump is so popular. A taste: Consensus on the causes of Trumpâs sweeping electoral victory has formed around the idea that voters were responding to Democratic performance on material […]
Mike Pence: If RFK Jr. is confirmed he âwould be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history.âÂ
We’ve been saying it for the last twenty-four hours. Now Mike Pence has joined us. Here is the former vice-president: âThe Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS […]
Trump and RFK Jr. just lost the New York Post
One of the nations oldest and most conservative newspapers, the New York Post, opposes Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Here is a taste of its editorial: The overriding […]
What is a recess appointment?
Here is Stephen Groves at the Associated Press: As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip […]
Peggy Noonan: “As for Matt Gaetz being nominated as attorney generalâwell, this is just straight-out trolling, right?”
Here is the former Reagan speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist: The first wave of nominees to the Trump administration announced this week included normal RepublicansâSusie Wiles as chief of staff, Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations, Lee Zeldin at the […]
Are evangelicals “the cheapest date in politics?”
Some good analysis here from Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy. A taste: This is the broader point: There were two theories about evangelical voters in this election. One theory said that if we abstained or voted third party we were […]
Matt Gaetz for attorney general?
For Donald Trump it is all about loyalty, and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is a Trump loyalist. Trump said he wanted to use the presidency to go after his enemies. It looks like he really meant it. Gaetz once said […]
Trump nominates a Fox News weekend host as Secretary of Defense
Hegseth is not good enough to be a Fox & Friends weekday host, but he IS good enough to be Secretary of Defense. đ Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University where he wrote for the Princeton Tory and averaged […]
From Poland Spring to “Little Marco” to Secretary of State?
Marco Rubio was once a rising star in the Republican Party. In 2013, his party chose him to deliver the response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. This was the famous Poland Spring moment: He was the Cuban-American […]
Can the Democrats reclaim the populist mantle?
Michael Sean Winters has his doubts. Here is a taste of his piece at the National Catholic Reporter: Democratic donors on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in Hollywood, and among special interest groups don’t want a party that champions […]
“Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States.” Now how do we move forward?
Here is Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch: Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States. Weâll pay for it in years to come, over and […]