By Wayne Allensworth The usual suspects are at it again, claiming that anyone who deviates from the globalist neocon-neoliberal foreign policy agenda is a Russian agent. As Glenn Greenwald said on his System Update podcast, an indispensable source in this election year, the loathsome David Frum, one time George W. Bush speechwriter, is sneering at Trump’s nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as Director...
By Wayne Allensworth As I wrote earlier this week, Trump 2.0 seems to have learned some things from his first term: Team Trump is far more organized than previously and appears to have a plan of action. Trump announced he would not bring in hawkish neoconservatives like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley for positions in his administration, which seemed to be a good sign. The Wall Street Journal, for...
By Wayne Allensworth The vibe of this presidential election is different. Something’s in the air, the almost tangible sensation of a seismic political shift. This election does not fit the pattern that the usual suspects expect or anticipate. The political realignment that began with 2016 is playing out with the neocons returning to the leftist fold from whence they came, with many of the most...
By Wayne Allensworth America is quickly shifting from being a high trust society with lots of “social capital” to a condition much more common around the world, one in which ordinary people don’t trust institutions, don’t trust the government, and increasingly don’t trust one another. Professor Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, reluctantly concluded that some time ago. In an atomized, hyper...
By R. Cort Kirkwood It’s bad enough that Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to look presidential, announced that the federal government would give victims of Hurricane Helena a whole $750. But adding insult to injury is what every citizen of Ukraine has received in federal aid since 2022: almost $5,000, nearly six times what the needy Americans who have lost everything will receive. And...
by Wayne Allensworth For some time, we have been reading about the United States and the United Kingdom’s possibly permitting Ukraine to use American and British long-range missiles against targets not only in the warzone, but also deep in Russian territory. The weapons mentioned most often are British Storm Shadow (France also uses a variant of this system called SCALP) and American ATACMS...
By Wayne Allensworth If I had only one reason to vote for Trump-Vance in November, this would be enough: Kamala Harris voted against requiring doctors to render aid to babies born alive after a “botched” abortion. That alone tells us all we need to know about her and what her party has become. The “abortion van” outside the DNC only confirmed the ghoulishness of the ghastly, and, yes...
By Wayne Allensworth I recently finished reading J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. The takeaways from that reading include: Vance’s rejection of fatalistic hopelessness. Hopelessness is pervasive among Vance’s people, and many have fallen into drug addiction, which has spurred on the collapse of the family. Encouraged by grandparents who expended so much of their lives and energy raising...
By Wayne Allensworth Ann Coulter, no fan of former President Donald Trump, says that she will nevertheless vote for him in November. What tipped the balance in his favor after Coulter said she had considered not voting at all? Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his running mate. If Trump had been true to past form and chosen Nicky Haley, Coulter would have sat this one out. But Vance is different...
By Wayne Allensworth Yes, it was just a speech, and Vance is a politician, but he went to the core of the problem we face in the political realm in his remarks at the Republican National Convention: Vance was heartfelt and, I believe, sincere in what he said last night. America is not an abstraction, we shouldn’t be asked to fight and strive and die for abstractions, but instead for a place and a...
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