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Even a pessimist would have reason experience surprise and consternation by the extent of our institutional crises. It’s revealed that American students know nothing of the history of the Holocaust and the story of the Jewish people in its aftermath. We’ve seen our government progressively possessed by the whims of influencer representatives. Even today’s guest Yuval Levin, who’s painstakingly documented this descent, is a bit bewildered. He joins Rob, James and Peter as they cover everything from Jewish students being forced to hide in a library, to priorities for Israel and of course on to the People’s House and the hopes we may yet hold out for it.
– Audio from today’s opening is new Speaker Mike Johnson’s first address to Congress.
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Everyone knows how they “lost the party.” It’s because the college educated professional class has gone Democrat at the same time that the traditional blue collar labor class has gone Republican. Why the constant need for this acknowledgement? It reeks of insecurity.
That’s a result, not a causation.
During the 2016 campaign I came to the conclusion that the pundits were suffering projection when they called Trump a con man. I asserted that the post-Reagan GOP had been running the con. It was 40 years of promising balanced budgets, ending abortion, shrinking the size of government, etc., etc., only to do the opposite. In that time I was willing to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt.
Only in the last year have I embraced the idea that both things could be true at the same time.
That’s something I hadn’t considered before, but it’s probably accurate. By pushing kids through high school where they need their hands held for everything, they’ll be seeking that same direction in college when they’re supposed to be flexing independent thought for the first time.
They’re delaying emotional and intellectual maturity, for the purpose of indoctrination.
Bush 41 got rid of Paul Volcker. Why in the hell would you do that? Because they wanted an inflationist, Alan Greenspan. You can’t control government spending when the central bank is goosing the economy so much. Not only is there too much inflation, they should have run with deflation.
Yes please