Current Affairs
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I feel like I ought to preface any remarks about the election with the statement that I did not support Trump, and thought he was entirely unfit for the presidency. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that, but here it is again for anyone who didn't know it. But I admit that I was…
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From Damon Linker: There's a small, irresponsible part of me that would like to see Trump win. From Richard Brookhiser: Neither candidate is fit to be president. There is no possible good result of their contest. Our only hopes are federalism, and that Bismarck was right. I assume the Bismarck reference is to a remark…
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So the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series since 1908 last night, breaking a supposed curse. Good for them. It has just come to my attention that 1908 was also the year of the Tunguska impact event. Hmm. I wonder if Trump may win after all. Or maybe even:
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A month or so ago, in this post, I said of the election campaign that I had begun to feel as if everyone else had gone to see a movie and I had decided to stay home. In the comments, Art Deco objected to the analogy, saying that unlike a movie the election will have…
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For a long time I've been saying that it was only a matter of time before white people began to band together openly precisely as white people. Only someone who is ignorant either of recent American cultural and political life, or of human nature, or both, should be surprised at this. The writer who calls himself…
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"Cliché" is not an adjective. How did this get started, anyway? Maybe they aren't accustomed to reading and don't hear the "d" in "clichéd".
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One personal silver lining in the dark cloud that is the Trump candidacy is that I no longer have to try to defend the Republicans, or at least those who don't really deserve it. I've been voting almost exclusively for Republicans for a long time despite never having had the slightest inclination to register myself…
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At First Things. "The doors of our churches remain open."
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From James Piereson's review of The Fractured Republic by Yuval Levin, in the June issue The New Criterion: Mr. Levin views the post-war era—roughly the period running from 1945 to the year 2000—as following a coherent trajectory that has left us in a situation in which it is impossible to put into place the grand designs of…
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That is, attempts to fiddle with the rules and create the possibility of picking someone else have been defeated, and Trump is definitely going to be the Republican nominee. "Looking to those colleagues, [Iowa committeeman Steve ] Scheffler admonished them to acknowledge their errors and unite around Trump." Ha. As someone or other said somewhere or…
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