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No, but I think they are ever-evolving and that the right has increasingly sought to strictly define what they are. That’s not good or bad. My point is that the left should seek to challenge that definition if they want to appeal to voters they’ve lost.

They were written and passed by Americans elected to public office by other Americans to govern America. Those are fundamentally American policies, whether you support them or not. So when asked if you’re proud of being an American, it’s easier to answer yes if all the things you hate about the...

It’s part of it, yeah. Both sides continue to escalate things based on escalation from the other side, both real and perceived.

A whole lot of national Dems are going to once again learn the hard way that Primary participation and enthusiasm is not necessarily indicative of trends in the general election. The only potential positive indicator I can see for the left is that low turnout on the Republican side could be...

I think there’s a clear ideological divide on this but that it’s driven as much by the political messaging of the past 30 years that sees Republicans explicitly frame their supporters as Patriots who must take America back from foreign, anti-American influences. It’s easier to be proud of...

Tell me more about how important it is that we practice using less violent rhetoric.

The only thing missing is the left complaining about how they can’t believe Trump would do such a thing, but that Biden was right to claim the prize for sending a man to Venus.

If you hold this view, there’s no inherent value in the established reputation of a publication such as Forbes. Much of today’s popular conservative discourse hinges on both a rejection of and appeal to institutional reputations depending on whether that institution agrees with them.

Contributor section, by the way.

For this particular issue, the problem is that I find the totality of the problem so maddeningly complex. I cannot possibly rationalize a broad “elder parole” program based solely on an outcome such as this, and I’m not sure how you stop this particular outcome on a practical level without a...

I think the past 72 hours of US-Canada hockey activity has shown me the light on the Donroe Doctrine. We essentially just earned the rights to Canada.

Case in point right here. Not only have I been willing to question many of the left’s policies and criticize their effectiveness, I’ve agreed that even on things they’re technically right about right now, such as the Epstein Files, federal and executive overreach, anti-foreign interventionism...

This is getting so fucking obnoxious and repetitive that I’m beginning to hate posting in this damn forum. In the marketplace of ideas, I frequently just don’t have the desire to argue about how we should sentence child molesters. It does not mean I’m afraid to have a debate or that I explicitly...

I dunno man, that’s a very interesting way to define the use of soft power. A sailor on a submarine got sick and the Danish military supported our troops by assisting in getting that sailor timely medical care. The President in turn invented a fake pretense for a fake action he was taking to...

Yeah, you’re right. I made the mistake of forgetting this is ultimately still Mike Johnson’s fault.

Why must it be implied that everything I post about is so dire? The President was being an asshat and I felt like calling him an asshat. Not entertaining any thoughts of self-harm or revolution as a result. I was satisfied to just call him an asshat.

Again, you are conflating death by suicide numbers with death by terminal illness numbers in a way that distorts an otherwise important debate.

Well yeah, there’s literally no issue with what happened with the submarine and it’s great that Denmark answered the call. Seems like a simple thank you would be easier than pretending we’re sending a hospital boat to tend to a non-existent Greenlandic health crisis being ignored by Denmark...

I understand that point, but conflicts between the constitutional authority of the branches seem like there should at least have a special mechanism to avoid handing them off to some district judge. Would also help with things like federal agencies overreaching with their regulations.

Yes, this ability for religious minorities to safely practice their faith in public is a feature of America, not a bug.