There were many factors that decided Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 Republican primary and general election: his panache (both figurative and literal), his appeal to independents, and his anti-establishment and national populist attitude all set him apart from the other candidates. But what also stood out and magnified those other aspects were his new ideas, or at least ideas that both sides of the political establishment had tacitly agreed to avoid. (more…)
Tag: Donald Trump
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Trump: “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION”
Donald Trump is being compared to Hitler yet again, but as always, it doesn’t seem to be hurting him in polls for the Republican nomination or the 2024 general election. (more…)
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In December of this year, Ilya Somin reviewed Christopher Zurn’s book Splitsville, USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking up the United States, which was published in May. Somin offers several good-faith critiques of Zurn’s position on national divorce, and even praises Splitsville as “. . . the most significant, fully developed, and intellectually respectable, defense of the claim that breaking up the union is actually a good idea.” Somin’s main concerns are the feasibility and effectiveness of a national divorce. As a staunch proponent of national divorce myself, I would like to reply to Somin’s counter-arguments. (more…)
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Interesting times, methinks. We have Mr. Trump, per the Washington Examiner, vowing to rid the country of illegal immigrants by rounding them up, storing them in concentration camps, and deporting them at “millions per year.”
Saith Mr. Trump to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday: (more…)
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November 29, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 561
An All-Star Thanksgiving Weekend SpecialLast weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a Thanksgiving weekend all-star extravaganza, where Greg Johnson and co-hosts Gaddius Maximus (Telegram), Cyan Quinn, and David Zsutty were joined by The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram), Sam Dickson, Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), Friedrich, Jim Goad, James Kirkpatrick (Substack), Tim Murdock (White Rabbit Radio), Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and Keith Woods. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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We use case studies in law and business to learn about how rules and principles work in real life. This is apparently not so in politics — or at least Republican politics. Trump’s victory in 2016 should be the model for any Republican candidate who is serious about winning, especially since that victory was buttressed by a string of defeats both before and after it.
The special elections earlier this month continued the trend of the GOP snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Andy Beshear, the incumbent white Democrat who is the Governor of Kentucky, defeated his black Republican opponent, Daniel Cameron. (more…)
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Hamas fighters attacked Israeli military positions and settlements near Gaza on October 7 and took the Israelis completely by surprise. Around 1,400 Israelis, many of them soldiers, were killed, and hundreds of Israeli civilians were taken captive to be used as barter in the eventual ceasefire negotiations. (more…)
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There is a vast gap between MAGA populism and the “radical” Right. Despite the fact that we have common enemies and are both supposedly nationalist, this gap only seems to be growing.
This was recently highlighted by the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who was endorsed by Donald Trump and hysterically attacked as “Christo-fascist” by the media. But Mike Johnson has an adoptive black son, worships Saint Fentanyl Floyd, and made sending even more aid to Israel his first priority. Christo-fascist? More like Judeo-Bolshevik. (more…)
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A month into the 2023 Israel-Palestine war, the Zionists maintain control of the media but the anti-Zionists control the Internet and the streets. The Zionists have lost the sympathies of vast segments of the Left who are now turning the Jews’ anti-white indoctrination back on them. (more…)
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In a 180-degree reversal after years of celebrating Bio-Leninist rejects, the US Army recently released a recruitment video featuring white chads jumping out of an airplane. Emma, their previously-lauded girl with two moms from California, is nowhere to be seen — presumably because a real war is brewing. (more…)
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In any effort to fundamentally change society, it is necessary to mobilize the young. The rhetoric on the populist Right often invokes notions of the people rising up, yet it rarely dwells too deeply on the exact profile of a person who is meant to suddenly spring into rebellion. (more…)
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I confess that I am a bad American. Yes, I pay little attention to Congress. Why? Because it seems to me little more than a storefront operation for the powers that count in America: Big Pharma, the military industry, Wall Street, and so on. They make policy. Congress just announces it. Nor do I much read the Constitution, a document in tatters that has little obvious connection to American life. (more…)
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The eighth wonder of the modern world might be Hillary Clinton, the “wonder” being how someone with such massive deficits of character, ability, and self-awareness has been taken seriously by enough people to make her so dangerous to the rest of us. Like much of what is presented to us by the professional reality managers as true, the opposite is usually the case. (more…)