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A Profound Tension Point for Conservatives
News that Steve Bannon is the latest casualty in the palace intrigue inside the Trump White House dominated the news cycle last Friday and throughout the weekend. The news came off of what many believe (this author included) was the …
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Watch Reihan Salam on Face the Nation
Reihan Salam, the executive editor of National Review, went on Face the Nation to discuss the big issues of the week. He commented on President Trump’s reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Steve Bannon’s departure from the White …
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I never expected to be thinking about Susan Rosenberg this weekend. But Andy McCarthy writes of her in his excellent piece about Charlottesville, Trump, etc.
As you may recall, President Clinton was very busy during his last few hours in …
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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 (Including Steve Bannon, who now has more time on his hands),
Normally, …
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Krein Is Wrong: Trump Supporters Always Expected a Pivot
The New York Times published a column yesterday — “I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It.” — by Julius Krein, the man who last year founded a journal dedicated to advancing the intellectual case for “Trumpism.”
The column …
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Report: Steve Bannon May Be Fired Imminently
Jonathan Swan of Axios, a very fine reporter, has just written that Chief of Staff John Kelly’s review of White House staff is coming to an end — and that Steve Bannon appears to be on the chopping block.
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The fabled golf teacher Bill Strausbaugh Jr. used to say, “I may bore you, but I hope never to confuse you.” In other words, he may have repeated himself, but he always wanted to be clear. (And he was.)
Once …
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If Van Jones was right that a moving tribute to the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL in a speech to Congress earlier this year was the moment Donald Trump became president, Trump’s news conference on Tuesday was the …
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Donald Trump, Scourge (?) of Tabloids
Yesterday, the president’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said something eye-popping: “The president is focused on what Americans care about … not tabloid gossip, which the media seems to care so much about.”
Oh, the media, huh? Donald Trump has …
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Conservatives Need to Remember, Presidents Affect Culture
Last night there was an important exchange on Fox News, one that highlighted the growing divide on the right. In one corner was Trump supporter Laura Ingraham, in the other Trump critic Charles Krauthammer. Their exchange is below:
The entire …
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Anything Trump says or tweets is going to being contextualized in the worst light, even when he does not venture into Cairo-speech–like historical mythologies. The ensuing controversy usually results in yet another tactical defeat for the media, which further …
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Bannon’s Out, But Was He Ever Really In?
Hey, anything big happen while I was gone?
Making the click-through worth your while: A couple of tough questions about what, exactly, Steve Bannon brought to the White House; why proud Southerners need a unifying symbol beyond the Confederate Flag; …
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On Charlottesville, Trump, and Anti-Americanism
Susan Rosenberg was a terrorist in the early 1980s. Like her Weathermen comrades, she would have killed many people had she been a more competent terrorist. She was a fugitive plotting more bombings when she and a co-conspirator were captured …
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Bannon’s Ouster, the Latest Episode in a Show about Nothing
Michael Brendan Dougherty
There’s a mismatch between the political press and the White House it is intended to cover. Political scribblers like myself are primed to greet the news of Steve Bannon getting bounced from the White House as an event with …
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Trump Accurately Blames Both Sides for Charlottesville Mayhem
How dare he?
President Donald J. Trump stood before journalists on Tuesday and said the unsayable: “I think there is blame on both sides.”
Rather than denounce only the execrable white supremacists and swastika-wielding neo-Nazis who organized Saturday’s hate-o-rama …
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Re: Balls, Strikes, and Trump
If I could weigh in on this one. Of course, I agree that we need to call balls and strikes on Trump, since that’s been NR’s editorial approach to his presidency and I’m the editor. On the merits, though, I …
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Rebuilding the Public Square after Charlottesville
The riots and violence in Charlottesville accentuate, like the tired chorus of a far-too-long song, the dangerous effects of racism, bigotry, and misrule by mobs. Whatever “white nationalists” call themselves, no rebranding can wash the moral taint from doctrines of …
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Krauthammer’s Take: Bannon May Not Survive
Charles Krauthammer explains how Steve Bannon may have undermined the president and endangered his own job with his reckless comments to a reporter:
I think that [Bannon] just got Scaramucci-ed. Actually, he was self-Scaramucci-ed, kind of a Japanese version of …
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Trump’s Disastrous Mishandling of Charlottesville Will Have Consequences
Michael Brendan Dougherty
After Charlottesville, Donald Trump’s presidency is entering a new phase, and it is his own fault. It was Trump who decided to throw away prepared remarks on Saturday in favor of an equivocal statement that once again proved racists …
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Repeating the question of a French interlocutor, Jay asks: “Is there someone who can defy the two major parties, capture the imagination of the country, and be elected president?”
The good news is: Yes, there is.
The bad news is: …
