Jefferson should be concerned.
In the past four years, things have happened in the highest precincts of our national government that at one time we would have never imagined.
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Absence of trust.
There are two institutions in our country that cannot operate effectively in the absence of public trust. Both institutions – acting almost as if in concert – have aggressively forfeited that trust.
No solutions.
Less appreciated than it should be is the fact that government at every level – with no operation of any legislature or really any semblance at all of representative government – assumed micro-level control of our daily lives.
Abundance of malice.
A small group of high-ranking Washington insiders is guilty of what is perhaps the most brazen political misconduct in our history.
COVID-19 and the blue state blues.
(Blue) states were in desperate financial trouble long before COVID-19.
Made in China.
For 30 years, presidents and political leaders of both parties have led us around the fence on the subject of China.
What’s the mortality rate of economic collapse?
Having imagined the mortality attendant to a runaway coronavirus pandemic, have our policy leaders taken the time to also imagine the mortality attendant to a shutdown of the American economy?
On China Trump has been right early and often.
We suddenly are aware of the fact that untold numbers of things – things that are absolutely essential to the health of our economy as well as to our very bodies – are manufactured in a totalitarian country that will stick it to us the first time it suits their convenience.
On the subject of coronavirus.
It has been a rough week but here’s the good news. We’ll get through this. And we’ll be smarter and we’ll be stronger for having done so.
Trump, Sanders and the ruling class.
In a single generation, the ruling class and the elite media have each managed to squander their inheritances.
Hey Dems, is this really the best you got?
Six candidates and yet not a scrap of Clintonesque or Obamaesque political skill in a contest in which nothing less will do.
Dems and the middle class.
Promises of government palliatives don’t resonate with middle class voters who are, on their own, doing better than they have in years.
And these people want to run the country?
The entirety of the fiasco Monday night in Iowa is an allegory on the Democratic Party’s impulse toward top-down command and control for the benefit of party insiders.
Civil discourse.
For as much as civility is a nominal good thing, of what use is it if it’s not reciprocal?
The Schiff Show
It is becoming possible to believe that the Democrats are hoping that Senate Republicans, desperate to be relieved of mind-melting boredom, will vote to remove President Trump from office just to make it stop.
A heads-up comparison.
So, there it was, on the same night. Rocking, pulsating, electric energy in Milwaukee. Sleepy, predictable leftist policy pabulum in Des Moines.
Now what?
The Dems have thrown everything they could get their hands on at Donald Trump and every last bit of it has bounced off.
The Trump economy rolls on.
In the midst of the never-ending impeachment circus, the Department of Labor released the monthly jobs data last Friday.
Democrats should be ashamed.
On a day in the future when impeachment might actually be necessary, it will be harder to obtain public and bipartisan support, impeachment having been so trivially pursued in this present instance.
Trump the un-punctilious.
To a broad swath of American voters, Trump’s disdain for Beltway punctilio isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.