Jay Nordlinger
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If your gang or your institution would like a speech from me, here's a menu: "What Is Conservatism?" "A Culture, If You Can Keep It." "Adventures in Journalism." "Politics on Campus: Yes and No." "William F. Buckley Jr." Amiability and charm -- variable, but largely dependable.
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Trust me, my friends: If a Democratic president did this, all of us conservatives would explode in rage -- this usurpation, this defilement of the people's house -- and we'd be right.
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From a conservative who has been disgusted by the Trumpified GOP: “I didn’t think I could drag myself to the polls. But after the Left’s performance in the Kavanaugh affair, I would crawl across broken glass.” I believe this sentiment is common.
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Reminder: McCain was shot down on his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam. Fractured his arms and a leg, almost drowned. Tortured, for years. Two years of solitary confinement. Endured more than most of us could ever imagine. Very, very tough guy. Patriot. Hero. A real man.
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A short while ago, men such as Robert Mueller, William Taylor, and Alexander Vindman would have been pin-ups for (us) American conservatives: decorated combat veterans; patriots; straight arrows. The urge to prop up Trump changed all of this. A heartbreaking and infuriating era.
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Listening to these hearings, you can see why Republicans, both in electoral politics and in the media, worked so very hard to keep them from ever coming about.
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This morning, I passed my neighbor, who was walking his dog. He uses a walker now and moves very slowly. He is incredibly tough. On his forearm is a tattoo -- not the kind the kids get. I stared at that faded number this morning, and my stupid, shitty problems melted.
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Josh Hawley calls for a "new nationalism." I have a feeling that this is a politics that does not respect our democracy, including our election results. This strikes me as a politics that pumps its fist in encouragement of the mob. Keep an eye on Hawley and his ism. 1/2
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If a Democratic president called his critics and opponents "human scum," all of us conservatives would say that this was outrageous and ominous from a leader in a democracy. We would say that this was reminiscent of Communists, fascists, and other such types. What say we now?
The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!
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Don’t kid yourselves, chillen: If a Democratic president asked a major American adversary — a Communist dictatorship — to investigate his domestic political opponents, we on the right would be howling at the top of our lungs — with good reason.
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Before they hanged him, Eichmann looked at Eitan and said, "Your time will come to follow me, Jew." Eitan replied, "But not today, Adolf, not today." Good goin', Rafi. R.I.P.
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Hard to keep track of the Biblical themes at CPAC this year. If I have understood correctly: They canceled a pharaoh and brought in a golden calf?
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GOP congressman Dan Crenshaw, on the Trumpian claims about the 2020 presidential election: "It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up."
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I have read what Trump said at the G-7 about Russia, Crimea, etc. I have read it but can hardly believe it. This is the U.S. president? Why is he talking like an RT host? Just when you think things might be slightly normal -- you're jolted back into reality. A head-spinning time.
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"Mitt Romney, a Man Alone." I hope he knows, however, that he has his appreciators.
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No one should expect politicians or parties to be pure. Anyone lookin' for purity should stay away from politics. But it is not too high a standard to expect politicians not to be pathological liars, and parties not to be festivals of lies.
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May I just point out that, if we're the wealthiest country in the history of the world, it's because we have steadfastly rejected the system that Senator Sanders would impose on us?
We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. How is it possible that 2 months after Hurricane Maria half the people of Puerto Rico don't have electricity?
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Unfit. Utterly unfit. The nomination of this man for president, for a third time, is a blow to America.
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The case of Herschel Walker has infuriated me. Because the guy is clearly not playing with a full deck. And the U.S. Senate is an important body. And the Republican Party and the Republican media have pretended that the guy is within normal parameters.
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Before Liz Cheney spoke last night, Republicans filed out of the House chamber. During the impeachment trial last February, most Republicans would not look at the video of the Capitol riot. I like to think it’s because they know it is all true.
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I don't know what this woman's politics are (although I bet they're different from mine) -- but I know this is classically American. Long may it be.
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I'm sure I go overboard on Lincoln -- am guilty of some idolatry. But I consider the Fox News thing, with Trump, a bit of a profanation. I wouldn't like it if a president I loved -- Reagan, say -- appropriated that setting. It makes me sick, frankly.
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Given my studies and interests, I'm sure I'm too sensitive to this stuff -- "enemy of the people," etc. But "Great Patriot Farmers"? Pure Soviet. I mean, Americans don't talk this way, ordinarily. This is a little creepy to my (tender?) ears.
....We will then spend (match or better) the money that China may no longer be spending with our Great Patriot Farmers (Agriculture), which is a small percentage of total Tariffs received, and distribute the food to starving people in nations around the world! GREAT!
#MAGA
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In the olden days, pre-Trump, conservatives prided themselves on a certain maturity. Frankly, we considered ourselves the grown-ups of the country, while others were bratty children. We were like the parents. The present era is incredibly embarrassing, among other things.
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Also, Hawley likes to use the phrase "in the name of the people." This is Marine Le Pen's slogan, of course: "Au nom du peuple." Hawley says "new nationalism," but what he's selling is very old. When demagogues claim to be acting "in the name of the people," watch out. 2/2
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Evidently, the White House thought the transcript would not be damning. This says a lot about the numbness in our politics today -- the rock-bottom standards. The transcript is damning as hell. "I would like you to do us a favor, though." The thing reeks of the Mob. Disgusting.
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I wish people could know that the course of a pandemic -- a worldwide plague -- is not a political plot.
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Republicans keep telling me how tough Trump was with Putin. Where to begin? Maybe with this: For four years, Trump called for Russia's reinstatement to the G-7, making it the G-8 again -- though the reasons for Russia's suspension (e.g., war in Ukraine) still held. Get serious.
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There is a band of people in Mariupol, taking a stand, trying to hold on, as the beast bears down on them. This is real-war stuff. Real heroism is on display. Not the playacting that we do in our "culture wars," day after day. Forgive me for being totally disgusted.
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All "dunking" aside, this is a rather amazing film --a document of an era.
Here is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus.
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I think
@DavidAFrench
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I've seen Peter Meijer described as a "moderate." He's not, really. He's a full-on American conservative, of the pre-Trump variety. It's just that he's not a seditious liar. So people think of him as a "moderate." Strange times, these.
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Be clear: If a foreign intelligence operation had worked to elect the D, not the R, conservatives would talk of nothing else. Rightly.
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I'm gonna write a tweet that's gonna tick a lot of people off. Reagan conservatives like me have been called racists -- falsely and maliciously -- all of our lives. So, to many Americans, every charge of racism, no matter how legitimate, rings hollow. Good job, wolf-criers.
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Advice to young people: Never want it so bad -- never want to be or stay in the game so bad; never want to hold power, or be near it, so bad -- that you end up like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, et al. Your honor and fidelity will mean a lot more in the end.
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So, this Biden aide said "bunch of f***ers," in reference to R's. Lot of howling, understandably. But -- President Trump referred to the Speaker of the House as "Crazy Nancy," routinely. Part of me feels that no R has the right to say anything ever about anything. You know?
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After 30-some years, I left the Republican Party on the night of May 3, 2016, when Trump clinched the GOP presidential nomination. But I could not have told you how deep and wide the rot would go.
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I'm used to Trump's tenderness toward murderous dictators (Putin, MBS, Erdogan, Kim, et al.). I am not yet used to others' acceptance of it, or indifference to it. That will take some more time. And some of these guys used to be wild about Reagan. Unfathomable.
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The Petersburgers, reclaiming some of their country’s honor. I think of José Martí: When many lacked honor, a few had enough honor for many.
Putin is going to find it difficult to arrest all these people with his jails overflowing.
Well done, brave Russian people of St Petersburg. 🇷🇺✊
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Let’s face it: If a Democratic president did what Trump has done — joining a Communist dictator, and enemy of the United States, in trashing a domestic political opponent of the president’s — we conservatives would be at the White House gates, howling. And we would be right.
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One reaction to the impeachment hearings: As a conservative, I like the judges, the deregulation, the energy renaissance, and more. I have a deep-seated, healthy fear of the Left. But Trump & Co. are such g**damned liars. This cannot be gotten around. Character counts -- a lot.
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Look up his statements on COVID-19. Or on evolution, say. For a major party to put him forward for the U.S. Senate is just disgraceful. It spits in the face of our system. It is LOL, nothing-matters, end-of-the-republic stuff. Please. Stop it.
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I wish I could tell people, especially the young: This isn’t conservative. It has nothing to do with conservatism. It’s just being a jackass.
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A reflection on today’s GOP: There’s no chance ex-president George W. Bush would be asked to speak at the convention. The ‘12 nominee, Romney? No. The ‘08 nominee, McCain, if he were alive? No. What if 41 were still here? No. Reagan? Hmmm. Would he be a member of the GOP today?
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There is much to ponder in the below tweet: the indulgence of North Korea's missile tests; the buddying with Kim against Biden; the "low IQ" stuff; the credulousness. I have to wonder: Why does the author of that tweet deserve the allegiance and respect of American conservatives?
North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?
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He died at 99 on the Fourth of July. Fought in a segregated unit, on D-Day. "I did my duty," he said. "I did what I was supposed to do as an American." God, have we been lucky to have such people.
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Ron DeSantis calls the Ukraine war a "territorial dispute." In fact, it is an attempt by Russia to obliterate the Ukrainian nation and re-subjugate it -- to drag it back into an empire ruled by the Kremlin. DeSantis betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of a crucial issue.
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He was one of the three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation. He was national chairman of the American Conservative Union. He was in the House Republican leadership. And now he has left the GOP. Fascinating.
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Many, many conservatives will hate Romney for saying these things -- not because they think he is wrong but because you're not supposed to say them, and you make others look bad for not saying them. Romney has broken a kind of agreement (a tacit one). Good for him.
Policies and appointments are only a part of a presidency. A president must also unite us, inspire us, and defend our vital institutions.
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Holy-moly.
GOP Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan: "We let ourselves put a person in front of the party and that, I assure you, should never happen again in the Republican Party."
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Trump likes to call people "third-rate." Jonathan Karl: "third-rate reporter." Rep. Thomas Massie: "third-rate grandstander." Hugh Hewitt: "third-rate radio announcer." And now
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One of the big talking points of Trump Nation--I've heard it from Nikki Haley and a hundred others--is, "Oh, they got their military aid anyway." Yes, only because of the whistleblower's complaint. The administration released the aid two days later. If not for the complaint ...
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Trump on Putin: "A great guy." "A terrific person." Trump on Xi Jinping: "A great guy." "A terrific guy." Trump on Kim Jong-un: "A great leader." "Very talented." "Very honorable." Etc. The old conservative movement would have been repulsed by all this. I am of that movement.
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CrowdStrike is not a Ukrainian company, despite what Trump continues to allege. It is an American company, one of whose founders was born in Moscow (and came to America as a teen and went to Georgia Tech). Moreover, CrowdStrike is used ... by the NRCC.
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Peter Meijer was noble. In his first days in Congress, he voted to impeach a president of his own party — a president who had incited a mob to attack the Congress, for the purpose of stopping a constitutional process. Noble, Meijer was. He can hold his head high — unlike others.
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The more Trump & Co. squawk at the New York Times, the more I think there may be something to the Russia questions ...
For first time the failing
@nytimes
will take an ad (a bad one) to help save its failing reputation. Try reporting accurately & fairly!
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Erdogan is, of course, a dictator who had his goons beat up democratic protesters on American soil and who, for going on two years, has imprisoned an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, who had ministered in Turkey for 23 years. Can we wake up, please, and uncover a conscience?
Trump fist-bumped Turkish leader Erdogan, said he "does things the right way"
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Sign after you get through security in the Milwaukee airport. My favorite sign in all of America.
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Take a look at Trump's statement on the death of Colin Powell. It says a lot about Trump -- his emotional maturity, his character overall. Tens of millions of people think Trump ought to be president. This says something very important about our country.
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The thing about what Trump is selling -- it really does sell. I saw it happen in 2016. GOP voters could have had Jeb, Cruz, Rubio, Walker, Jindal, Christie, Carly, et al. -- no, they wanted Trump, by overwhelming numbers. That is what's to be reckoned with, not one man.
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She is a conservative Republican in every traditional respect. But she will not lie for Trump -- which is why she's persona non grata in the GOP. "The Republican Party is more than Trump!" some people say, with annoyance. Oh? Not by the evidence.
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Many people, defensive of Trump, like to knock Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, et al. This is understandable. But Trump is the issue. The president of the United States. Everything else is a sideshow. What we are seeing, and have been seeing, stems from Trump, period. You know?
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They are not very fine people. They are murderous dictators. Americans, please stop this man from being president again.
Trump says Nikki Haley is not smart enough to deal with Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un. He adds they are “very fine people”
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Trump has ridiculed DeSantis relentlessly. DeSantis, of course, rewards him with an endorsement. This is emblematic of the GOP today: emasculated. Funny, for a party that beats its chest about how manly it is.
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I don't expect every senator to be a Daniel Webster or a Henry Clay. Or even a Hubert Humphrey or a Howard Baker. But there ought to be a minimum amount of respect for that body. And the nomination of Herschel Walker -- toward whom I harbor zero ill will -- is insulting.
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Things like this never bought Bush an ounce of good will -- not an ounce. But they were still right, and Bush is a real man.
Today is
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Bush began his 1/23/2007 SOTU:
"In his day Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr from Baltimore saw Presidents Roosevelt & Truman at this rostrum. But nothing could compare with the sight of his only daughter Nancy presiding tonight as Speaker"
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Here’s one way: I live in a country where I can tell your smelly, rotten, murderous dictatorship to go to hell.
What is the best way to prove liberalism is alive?
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A word about
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Midst the general horror, it's good to know a little about the victims, individually. And to see their faces. Otherwise, it's all too abstract.
In Memoriam: Yulia Zdanovskaya, a 21-year old mathematician, was killed on March 8th, 2022 during a Russian forces attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2017, Yulia represented Ukraine at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad and won a silver medal at the competition.
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Ukrainians have reminded the West of the concept of sacrifice, says Garry Kasparov (
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Man is a herd animal, as you see. As we regularly see. This makes Mitt Romney’s stand, in February 2020, all the more impressive. He is the only person in history to vote against a president of his own party in an impeachment trial.
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Consider Trump’s statements in the last couple of days. I ask those who are still Trump-friendly: Do you really think he’s fit to be president, in mind and character? What would he have to say or do for the answer to be no?
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The patriot on that flight is Mitt Romney -- who I think is the most admirable person in American politics today.
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The bar for Trump is so low -- anything less than forthright criminality is considered kosher. This is of great advantage to him.
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For decades, some of us have been campaigning against political correctness. We don't mean, "Behave like a jackass instead." You know? Thx.
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Putin tortured Magnitsky to death real slow. He shot Nemtsov in the back. Etc. A Free World leader should not be citing him with glee.
Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!
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Every day, I hear people on the right denigrate Reagan-Bush conservatism. Or they say its time has past. We were anti-Communist, patriotic, constitutionalist. We knew the importance of free markets. We emphasized character in office. These things are timeless, and right.
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Yeah. Doesn't seem very American to me, frankly. I knew a lot of WWII vets when I was growing up. They were tough. They had seen and done a lot. They owned firearms. But they would never have gone in for displays like this. They would have thought it was childish.
I'm for the 2nd Amendment.
I also think it's appalling and scary for any American to participate in a protest demonstration armed and dressed like a paramilitary militia.
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Important. Don't get numb. The Ukrainians need help. They are doing the fighting and dying. They are losing the limbs. But they are in a battle between civilization and barbarism -- a barbarism that will spread -- and they need money and weapons. "Give them the tools."
No, these aren't WWII images. It’s Russian missiles in Pokrovsk, another frontline city that Russia aims to erase.
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David Koch was an odd person to demonize. The Koch company employs more than 100,000 people. David was unstinting in his support of free markets, which are indispensable to prosperity, individual and collective. He gave lavishly to the arts, especially ballet. Well done, David K.
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Overheard in a diner, NYC — a woman saying to the cashier, “I just became a U.S. citizen today, so I wanted to have something especially American.”
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President Trump has labeled the Hong Kong protests "riots" and stressed that Beijing has been patient over a long period of time. If you can't support democratic activists risking their necks in the street -- at LEAST don't side with their persecutors. The barest minimum.
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Mitt Romney was the first person in history to vote against a president of his own party in an impeachment trial. He has independence. He has courage. I admire him. We need more like him.
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I am not greatly sympathetic to Rep. Omar (surprise surprise). But really, someone ought to have given her a clue who Elliott Abrams is. The guy has been championing freedom and human rights his entire life (and taking unholy sh** for it from the illiberal Left and Right).
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Part of their job is to tell the executive to go to hell. This is a republic, with separation of powers.
Sarah Sanders tells Senate Republicans to "do your job" and back Trump's emergency declaration
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Trump chortled with Kim Jong-un about Joe Biden’s IQ. After congratulating the CCP on the 70th anniversary of its dictatorship, Trump asked the Party to investigate his domestic political rivals. This is not the conservatism I signed up for. We were anti-Communist and patriotic.
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Last year, in a private talk to alumni of his administration, Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration. Word of his criticism leaked out. Mitch McConnell said, "I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut." Will R's apply the same standard to Donald Trump?
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This is the crux of it, really. More than anything else, it's the lies. The bromide that "all politicians lie" won't cut it. This is a very special case. Come on.
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One of the most important stories in America is the threat of violence against GOP politicians who cross Trump and his movement (i.e., the whole party). That story is not nearly well enough known. Read about Anthony Gonzalez. Put yourself in his shoes.
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Last month, the president declared, "We have defeated ISIS in Syria." Now four Americans, among others, have been killed by ISIS in Syria. The word "outrageous" is overused, but this is outrageous, and the president should get his act together, damn it.
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He was the first person in American history to vote against a president of his own party in an impeachment trial. Dude doesn’t mind standing alone.
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A time for conservatives and Republicans to ask themselves: Who are we? What do we stand for? What are our values? What do we believe?
Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!
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The pictures of Notre Dame Cathedral are unbearable. But nothing material lasts. Matter is born to die. The ideas that inspired the erection of Notre Dame will live and live, and human beings, when they are free to do so, will keep conceiving and building such marvels. For sure.
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This is really Dear Leader territory. It is -- I'm going to revive a McCarthyite term -- un-American.
Leaving this here without comment. A senior administration official to reporters on Air Force One:
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Trump says of Kim Jong-un, "Why shouldn't I like him?" Because Kim is at the head of a Communist tyranny, a gulag state, the worst place in the world for people to live. Murder, torture, and starvation are the lot of countless North Koreans. The U.S. should stand for freedom.
Trump on Kim Jong Un: “He likes me. I like him. Some people say ‘oh, you shouldn't like him.’ I said, ‘why shouldn't I like him? I like him.’”
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I have been against political correctness since I was born. But taking a Confederate general’s name off a U.S. military base and renaming it “Liberty” is not PC, at least in my book. It is morally sound, and American. The Confederate project was abominable—deserving of no honor.
Pence: We will end the political correctness in the hallways of the Pentagon and North Carolina will once again be home to Fort Bragg.
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In the future, I believe, the war in Ukraine will be generally known as a struggle of freedom versus tyranny, decency versus barbarism. But some will be very slow to acknowledge it as that. Some people never will.
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This morning, a Ukrainian friend told me a joke. A Russian tourist is at an airport, passing through immigration. The agent asks him some standard questions, including, "Occupation?" The Russian answers, "No, just visiting."
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