Gerard Baker
@gerardtbaker
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Editor-at-Large & Columnist @WSJ. Telling people what they don’t want to hear.
New York, New York
Joined December 2010
It’s a central cultural component of the American morality tale. The bad guy in almost every American movie has a British accent.
It is interesting how salient Britishness is in America when someone's angry with you (I say this without any familiarity or affection for Will Lewis specifically!)
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I’m confused. Surely the difference this time is that the winner was the country whose government grabs stakes in private companies, directs investment to favored industries, imposes taxes on citizens without legislative authority and tries to muzzle domestic opponents?
Amazingly enough, 46 years later, the U.S. once again defeated the best hockey team a hostile, communistic power could put on the ice!
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I get that Lowry is trying to make a joke here, but he’s not a witty guy, so it doesn’t land. Leaving politics—as we must—to the side: Of the NR guys, Dan and Jeff are genuinely funny; and Ponnuru has an amusing droll/dry sensibility. Lowry’s EIC for life gig kind of baffling.
Amazingly enough, 46 years later, the U.S. once again defeated the best hockey team a hostile, communistic power could put on the ice!
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Glad to see this.
VARNEY: You said the economists behind a NY Fed study that said 86% of tariff burdens falls on American businesses and consumers should be disciplined. What's your issue? HASSETT: Yeah, you know, I probably got a little emotional when I said that and I regret if the people who
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I have a feeling we will quickly see that the Mammon of Arabia looms rather larger in this president’s mind than the Biblical claims of Christian Zionism. I wouldn’t want to be Huckabee this weekend.
#Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses its strongest condemnation and complete rejection of the statements made by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he recklessly suggested that Israel’s control over the entire Middle East would be acceptable.
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“Potential congressional scrutiny”? You’re having a laugh.
Trump CANNOT legally impose a 15% global tariff because the US doesn’t meet the clear emergency economic conditions envisioned by Section 122. If Trump tries to invoke it, it would certainly face immediate legal challenges, economic pushback, and potential congressional scrutiny.
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OK, that’s a crazy answer for a US ambassador to offer. It’s fine for a dispensationalist minister from the Deep South. But a US diplomat? Cuckoo.
BREAKING: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East. “It would be fine if they took it all.”
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Indeed. Can you imagine Kavanaugh writing “whether or not X state’s legislation to confiscate all its citizens’ guns is lawful, it would be a “mess” for the government to try and return them all.”
Kavanaugh implies in his dissent that a President is free to exceed his authority and continue doing so, provided the action is not easy to undo. I'm no legal scholar but that seems ... wrong.
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It is literally this sort of smug, ad hominem dismissal of an argument that both characterizes the FT-reading elite’s failure to understand populism and explains why populism has become so potent.
Dog bites man. A white South African attacking multiculturalism.
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Premature triumphalism is a condition to which we should all have been immunized by now. But some folk just can’t seem to help it.
“I don’t think anyone really understands the scale or capacity we have because no one’s ever seen it before.”
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On this episode of #TheStateofItUSA, @katyballs and I discuss #Munich fallout and media spotlight on AOC, the US presidential #election in 2028 and the passing of civil rights #activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson. #TheTimes
https://t.co/pNAMNxcs6n
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Are these the new faces to lead the US Democrats? Faced with a choice between Biden-era centrists and the radical left, the party may look to popular TV for its new star. #TheTimes
https://t.co/FxivMwIWO4
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Faced with a choice between Biden-era centrists and the radical left, the party may look to popular TV for its new star
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They need to be disciplined.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Global Tariffs
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Then pass a law. You’re a legislator. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
SCOTUS’s outrageous ruling handcuffs our fight against unfair trade that has devastated American workers for decades. These tariffs protected jobs, revived manufacturing, and forced cheaters like China to pay up. Now globalists win, factories investments may reverse, and American
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In Munich, Marco Rubio makes a forceful case for Trump’s policies without his stylistic excesses, writes @gerardtbaker
https://t.co/wdKX2xdx4M
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The secretary of state makes a forceful case for Trump’s policies without his stylistic excesses.
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On this episode of #TheStateofItUSA, @katyballs and I discuss #Munich fallout and media spotlight on AOC, the US presidential #election in 2028 and the passing of civil rights #activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson. #TheTimes
https://t.co/pNAMNxcs6n
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Are these the new faces to lead the US Democrats? Faced with a choice between Biden-era centrists and the radical left, the party may look to popular TV for its new star. #TheTimes
https://t.co/FxivMwIWO4
thetimes.com
Faced with a choice between Biden-era centrists and the radical left, the party may look to popular TV for its new star
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Do you think he’s sweating now?
Out in time to make his birthday reservation at Pizza Express
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I’ll say it again: can you point me to the evidence that indicates that anyone in the US government committed a crime?
Listening to @BBCWorld. They are of course giving the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten massive coverage, but they are also expressing (understandable) pride that their legal system deals with the rich and powerful in a way that the United States never has and never will.
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Great idea! Let’s add a global financial crisis to an all-out war in the Middle East. Just for the LOLS.
It'd be a shame if the dollar swap lines were cut and a couple of UK pension funds went belly up. A real shame.
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