The media have been fascinated with the incredibly rare anti-Trump Republican. While polls find 90% of Republican voters intend to vote for Trump, reporters continue to ignore them and obsess over the rare outliers. These intrepid souls, willing to endure overexposure, are lavished with lucrative commentator roles, flattering profiles, and renewed relevance. However, as the […]

Traditional conservatives must incorporate the populists’ genuine concern for working-class Americans before it is too late Joe Biden is already positioned to be the most liberal president in America’s history, if he were elected, and yet is still moving further to the left after winning the primary. Yet, the more interesting changes are actually happening within […]

The coronavirus pandemic is changing everything. Liberal partisans confidently predict the pandemic conveniently confirms their long-held beliefs about the need for a larger and stronger central government, with less discretion for local and state governments, much less private actors. They decry Trump for not setting one-size-fits-all federal policies on testing and reopening and belittle the […]

The U.S. government has spent trillions of dollars attempting to mitigate the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, but concerns overspending are starting to mount, along with the national debt. The nation’s debt now stands at $25 trillion as spending concerns have naturally taken a back seat to the recovery effort. As most of the country […]

A comparative look at population growth and spending over 10 years. Democrats want a $915 billion budget bailout for states and cities, and the leading lobbyist is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. His main public antagonist on the subject is Florida Senator and former Governor Rick Scott. Both men were first elected Governor in 2010, […]

The Cuomo–Scott cage match replicates the American debate in miniature. With the debate over additional epidemic aid to the states simmering, Florida senator Rick Scott and New York governor Andrew Cuomo are taking a special interest in one another. Senator Scott used to be Governor Scott. He took office in Florida in 2011, three days […]