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This week, some rumination on Trump’s tete a tete with Putin (along with a history lesson for Rob Long), we introduce you to Elizabeth Heng, who is running for Congress in California’s 16th District, we get some #MeToo education from our good pal Mona Charen, (stop whatever you’re doing and buy her book Sex Matters right now) and the city of Santa Barbara declares that if you use a straw in that fair city, you’ll do time. Which sucks. Also, the Word of The Day is spizzerinctum.
Music from this week’s podcast: Sex Bomb by Tom Jones
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Don’t worry, the end is near.
George Will’s Libertarian Evolution
The nation’s most syndicated columnist talks about political philosophy, drugs, isolationism, optimism, and his political development over four decades in Washington.
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But…but… Gorsuch! (Has anyone said that yet? Just thought I’d throw that in.)
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
A great article. I didn’t read anything I didn’t like,and I read a lot that I did like.
We would have gotten Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and ACB with President Rubio or Cruz or Kasich.
That’s as much proof for [Gary’s new favorite word] as anything else you’ve got.
I don’t suppose you’d be interested in any of the Trump administration’s policies and actions that have cut against Russia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-actions-against-russia-sanctions-2018-3#trump-officials-repeatedly-criticize-moscow-6
http://ricochet.com/537361/trump-is-a-stooge-of-putin/
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/17/despite-botched-summit-putin-trump-administration-still-pressuring-russia/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/13/trumps-russia-policy-is-better-than-obamas/
Our of control, excessively centralized power is a real b**** except for Max Boot types. Discuss.
Your point?
Literally all of the anti-Trumpers except for George Will, in effect, love the dysfunction of centralized power and interventionism.
I can’t figure out how to google it, but a bunch of these guys just founded an anti-populism research center. Hilarious. They don’t care about improving governance, they just want what they want.
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You are simply wrong. What you call the anti-Trumpers understand the disaster that is centralized government more than Trump ever can.
What you are referring to is the Left.
Do you think that Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, or even David French love centralized power? What’s going on here? #JustAsking
Found it.
Listen to the DC MCaliister interview on Whisky Politics. None of the GOP have ever done anything to head off where we are now. ZERO. Then throw in the cultural marxism or whatever you want to call it. Interventionism is a proven disaster.
Of course not!!! They are all conservatives.
The issue is, how are they different from the others? What do the others want?
This is silly. People are different. You’ve got to stop not being able to differentiate them. Conservatives, like me, do not believe that Donald Trump is good for the country, despite most of his policies being good. Liberals have a different agenda. There is nothing wrong in trying to understand that.
I completely disagree with this. There are “conservatives” that actually love centralized power and interventionism (for various reasons) and they can’t accept the reality that it has all become unmanageable. It is a very big deal. Then, like I said, no one is doing anything about the media and cultural marxism. If you don’t like populism look at that.
Angelo Codivilla, Mises.org, David Horowitz, David Stockman are right about everything etc. etc. etc.
I will not be back. I promise you. I just want to say that we must be willing to debate issues not people. Nobody is right about everything, least of all David Stockman. And Horowitz just hates anybody who doesn’t follow Donald Trump.
What does that mean?
I think I’m doing that.
The Tea Party was started for good reason, it got totally thwarted, and then everything went haywire. Next stop, Trump and Bernie.
How off is that analysis?
Gary: I just think that those guys like political class perks, centralization,interventionism, and want to will the stuff that has clearly quit working to “work”.
What we need is a nice bond market collapse and then the tractional way has a shot. JMO.
It may take that.
People don’t get how our crappy Fed and financial system screws up incentives and people’s behavior. There are some GOP in the Hose that want to repair it, but I fear it takes an exogenous event or something.
Say what? Can you expand on that? What more can we expect of a conservative politician than good policies?
A nice pants crease? A normal hair color? Suits that fit? A fulsome vocabulary? Essays in National Review instead of tweets?
He needs to lose the comma between “conservatives” and “like me” for that sentence to make any sense at all.
Nothing I can say will convince you. It is one of those things that you either get or you don’t.
I’ve written several Posts about conservatism since joining Ricochet. Briefly stated, conservatism is not just about policy. Morals + Manners + Policy = Conservatism. If you don’t agree, that’s fine. Just don’t make fun of something I take very seriously.
The problem is, critical theory and Keynesianism is killing conservatism and libertarianism. It’s a different era. The Tea Party was there last chance for normal strategy to work. The statists and the statist media have too much power.