In the 1990s, the GOP Got a Hard Push to the Right

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By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump’s stand on a border wall,” Patrick Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan White House aide and Republican presidential candidate, wrote in 2019. “Why? Because mass migration from the global South … is the real …

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Americans Souring on Biden -- and Washington

Americans Souring on Biden — and Washington

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With Biden’s numbers underwater overall and on the three major issues — the economy, foreign policy and his handling of the coronavirus — Democrats have to be looking nervously at November 2022. The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer …

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America's 'Great Leap Forward' Into Socialism

America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism

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This weekend, a bipartisan group of senators crafted a $1 trillion measure to repair and expand the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, airports and broadband. Last week, this trillion-dollar infrastructure plan got a green light from 17 Republican senators, including Sen. Mitch McConnell. Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden …

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Joe Biden's Bid to Remake America

Joe Biden’s Bid to Remake America

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The bait to lure Republicans into embracing this $2.3 trillion in Great Society II and Green New Deal spending is the modest fraction to be allocated to infrastructure — airports, bridges, roads, ports, public transit. Most of the rest is to be used to grow social programs and launch new …

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Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?

Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?

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The succession struggle in the GOP is now underway. But as for now, Donald Trump is The Man, and he is not going anywhere… Still, even if Trump cannot unite the Republican Party, he brings, far and away, the largest pile of chips to the table. “Our historic, patriotic and …

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Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party

Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party

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There may have been a worse 90 days in Republican Party history, but it is difficult to recall exactly when. It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party. On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump seemed to have lost the White House by narrowly losing three crucial …

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Are 'Never Trumpers' the Future of the GOP?

Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOP?

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If the past is any guide, not only are the reports of the death of Trumpism premature, the probability is that Trumpism has put down roots in our national politics that are not soon, if ever, going to be pulled up. Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a …

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Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue?

Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue?

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Eventually, the country is going to go with law and order, for, no matter how the liberals’ recoil from the phrase and its associations with Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, without law and order there is no justice and there is no peace. What Nixon said in ’68 remains true: …

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