And now it’s America First time again—the inevitable outcome of the GOP’s descent into populism. Mr. Cruz, who used to be fond of calling Mr. Trump “my friend Donald” when it seemed opportune, now presents himself as the only man…
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Andrew Sullivan: America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny – NYMag
…[T]hose Democrats who are gleefully predicting a Clinton landslide in November need to both check their complacency and understand that the Trump question really isn’t a cause for partisan Schadenfreude anymore. It’s much more dangerous than that. …[T]hose Republicans desperately…
Louis René Beres: America Becomes What Its Founders Feared – The National Interest
For Edmund Randolph, the evils from which the new country was suffering had originated in the “turbulence and follies of democracy.” Regularly, Elbridge Gerry spoke of democracy as “the worst of all political evils,” and Roger Sherman hoped that “the…
Critchley and Webster: Hegel on Hamlet – spiked
‘But death lay from the beginning in the background of Hamlet’s mind. The sands of time do not content him. In his melancholy and weakness, his worry, his disgust at all the affairs of life, we sense from the start…
Prince’s Life of Faith – The Stream
A 2008 interview Prince gave to The New Yorker suggests this “clean, simple approach” left the singer a relatively strict social conservative who held the Bible as authoritative. “So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want…
Jay Cost: Republican Party Down – The Weekly Standard
In sum, the Republican party is in a very bad way. Bereft of good organization—nationally, in many states, and in Congress—it is struggling to field and support principled, electable candidates for office and cannot hold them accountable to those principles…
Emily Crockett: Why Congress’s investigation into Planned Parenthood has scientists terrified – Vox
The letter to the committee from StemExpress also said some of the last-minute “exhibits” were unverifiable, out of context, possibly doctored screenshots of their website. One screenshot makes it look like StemExpress was advertising fetal tissue as “profitable,” they said,…
Nate Silver: It’s Trump’s Nomination To Lose* – FiveThirtyEight
[T]he Republican race has not only defied “momentum” but often contradicted it. Whenever Trump seemed to be on a glide path to the nomination (such as after Super Tuesday or March 15), he’s had a setback. When he’s seemed to…
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JE Dyer: Trump soars; die is cast for a GOP crack-up… – Liberty Unyielding
Trump may be a plurality candidate, overall, not a majority candidate, but there is no question that he’s the front-runner. The nominating rules allow picking someone else, but they don’t mandate picking someone else. If the party picks someone else,…
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Mollie Hemingway: 11 Takeaways From Hearing On Baby Parts Trafficking – The Federalist
5) Aborted Baby Parts Are Valuable One of the most interesting things about the revelation that abortion clinics sell fetal body parts is that the unborn child is not considered a valuable human when it comes to ending her life…