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Politics Enters the Fast Lane
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader (especially those of you feeling unsatisfied by the lack of a Dear …
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On Russia, Can Congress Save Trump from Himself?
It doesn’t happen very often, but on at least one issue, Donald Trump is acting like a normal president. Unfortunately, in this rare instance, he’s actually doing something not only wrongheaded but self-destructive. Instead of letting Trump have …
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What If Donald Trump Doesn’t Sink the Republican Party?
What if Republican voters who don’t particularly like President Donald Trump are also able to compartmentalize their votes? What if they dislike Democrats more than they do the president? What if, rather than being punished for Trump’s unpopularity, …
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Are Things Getting Better?
I do not fear much correction when I say that my columns of the last few years have not been characterized by an overabundance of cheerfulness and optimism.
For instance, about a year ago, I endorsed a Twitter personality for …
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Can Conservatives Be a Loyal Opposition?
What hope is left for conservatives who oppose Donald Trump? If Michael Gerson is a reliable barometer of what the Never Trump crowd is thinking these days, it’s clear from his latest Washington Post column that he has as …
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Don’t Look to Georgia’s Sixth for 2018 Clues
Marietta, Ga. — Exactly two months ago, politicos around the country counted down the final hours until polls closed in Georgia’s sixth district, anticipating the results of a special congressional election widely perceived as a referendum on the fledgling …
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Team Trump Cannot Fear the I-Word
Impeachment.
See, it’s not that hard. All together now: Impeachment#…#impeachment#…#impeachment.
Don’t be fraidy-scared. It’s okay to say the “I-word.” Really.
Apparently, Team Trump doesn’t think so.
It was painful to watch Trump apologists fan …
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Tillerson’s Successful Retrieval of Otto Warmbier Drowned Out by the ‘Witch Hunt’
In an alternate universe, Donald Trump could be having a fantastic week. After 17 months of imprisonment by the North Korean government, American student Otto Warmbier has returned to the United States. Over the past week, emerging details have highlighted the …
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The Reality-TV Presidency
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader (especially those of you with a fetish for interspecies romance),
I used …
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Donald Trump, the erstwhile Democrat, independent, and member of the Reform Party, finally has a fixed partisan identity.
The president may be besieged, unpopular, and prone to lashing out self-destructively, but all of this cements his bond to his party …
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Evidently, the Left Hasn’t Calmed Down Yet
Johnny Depp, acclaimed American actor, producer, and musician, recently played with the notion of assassinating President Trump. At the Glastonbury arts festival in England on Thursday, he asked “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” He followed …
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GOP’s Special-Election Sweep Bodes Well for Trump Agenda
Sweep!
With U.S. representative-elect Karen Handel’s victory in Georgia and Ralph Norman’s in South Carolina Tuesday night, the Grand Old Party has won four of four contested special elections for the U.S. House since President Donald …
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A Democratic Blind Spot on Culture
How much do Democrats really want to defeat Donald Trump?
It’s worth asking in the wake of the latest Democratic failure to notch an electoral victory for the resistance, this time in the Georgia special election.
There’s no …
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How Badly Do Democrats Really Want to Defeat Trump?
I wrote about this question today in the context of the Georgia special election:
There’s no doubt that Democrats want to watch TV programs that excoriate the president. They want to give money to candidates opposing him. They want …
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The Architecture of Regime Change
The problem with the election of President Donald J. Trump was not just that he presented a roadblock to an ongoing progressive revolution. Instead, unlike recent Republican presidential nominees, he was indifferent to the cultural and political restraints on conservative …
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If a Trump Supporter Had Shot Democratic Congressmen …
What would have happened if a Trump supporter had shot Democratic congressmen?
The answer is obvious.
The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media, and the Democratic party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American …
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Leftist Violence Reaches Its Nadir
‘Pretty soon, all of this assassination talk will get someone shot,” I told my Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson on Tuesday afternoon.
And on Wednesday morning, it happened.
James T. Hodgkinson, 66, opened fire on an Alexandria, Va., baseball diamond where …
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Yes, Trump May Face Credible Obstruction-of-Justice Claims
Before we dive in to the tangled and only partially revealed web of facts and allegations surrounding Robert Mueller’s investigation of Donald Trump, allow me to make two things clear. First, at present, I do not believe that sufficient …
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From Americans to Americans
After the attempted assassination of House Republican whip Steve Scalise by a Democratic activist and Bernie Sanders supporter, a peculiar turn of phrase began to be repeated: “The cold civil war is heating up.”
There are those who dream of …
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Can You Obstruct a Fraud?
On March 30, 2017, by his own account, then-FBI director James Comey told President Donald Trump that Trump himself was not under investigation — the third time he had given him that assurance. In fact, Comey told Trump that he had just …
