One can be overjoyed by the repudiation of a candidate without being pleased with the opposing candidate's victory. This election is an occasion for that reaction. An American (or anyone actually) is perfectly justified in taking pleasure in Kamala Harris's...
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Trump’s Election Could Be the Best Result for Zelensky
by Ted Snider | Nov 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, needs a way to lose the war with Russia. American voters may have just given it to him. In his victory speech early in the morning of November 6, President-elect Donald Trump said, “I will govern by a simple motto: Promises...
Why Trump’s Victory Matters…And Why It Doesn’t
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election. After winning back states he had lost in 2020, Trump performed well in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—states Kamala Harris needed to win. Trump has won more than enough electoral votes to...
The ‘Will of the People’ Post-Election Horror Show
by Jim Bovard | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
On the morning after elections, many voters wake up and instinctively quote Dorothy Parker: “What fresh hell is this?” “Will of the people!” is the correct answer—at least if a Democrat won the election. Actually, the notion that election results represent the “will...
The Dems Are What They Claim to Hate
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 2, 2024 | Blog, Politics
As I said in 2016 (or was it 2015?), I despise Trump and I despise most of the people who despise Trump. I will never forgive the Democrats for making it necessary for me to defend him against their lies.
TGIF: Election Reflections
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 1, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The history of the human race is one long story of attempts by certain persons and classes to obtain control of the power of the State, so as to win earthly gratifications at the expense of others. --William Graham Sumner, 1883 For advocates of individual liberty,...
Our Endless Elections
by Brad Pearce | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Democrats have been breathlessly insisting that if Donald Trump is elected again that this could be our last election. That is obvious nonsense, but as the journalist Walter Kirn recently pointed out, “with their wanton rhetoric, they've also made many of us never...
Beware of War Hawks in ‘America First’ Clothing
by Connor O'Keeffe | Oct 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
For the past eight years, the two major political parties have been gripped by a messy and ongoing realignment. It began with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, which was a major repudiation of the neoconservative-establishment coalition that had dominated the...