Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
(The Atlantic) As you may have heard, mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis. Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating. But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites. The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing.
Greg Gutfeld scoffs at claims MAGA is a cult: ‘If Trumpism is a cult, it’s the worst cult in history’
(American Wire News) Fox News host Greg Gutfeld rejected the claims of so-called “experts” that the MAGA movement – which is led by former President Donald J. Trump – is akin to a cult. The oft-invoked pejorative to smear patriotic Americans who want to roll back the left-wing cultural revolution that has swept the county as being brainwashed dupes continues to get heavy play in the media as Trump’s support is growing with the most important election in the nation’s history rapidly approaching.
Trump’s Secret Weapon: The Genius of Choosing Senator JD Vance as VP
(Revolver) Making the right call for vice president is crucial to both of those desires. And in Revolver’s view, simply picking a “diverse” candidate is not the way to go. Instead, the answer is clear: Among the names still being considered for the role of Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance leads the pack.
Vice President J.D. Vance
(Chronicles Magazine) Every four years, commentators, political consultants and elected officials all chime in with their takes on who a presidential candidate’s running mate should be. Perhaps the candidate ought to select a veep from a swing state. Perhaps the candidate ought to select someone who fits a certain demographic box. Maybe the candidate ought to pick someone with a very similar political philosophy—or perhaps someone whose ideological bona fides assuage any lingering concerns that party loyalists might harbor about the man at the top of the ticket.
Donald Trump Issues Message To Mike Pence After He Denied Endorsement. “I couldn’t care less.”
(en Volve) “Millions of people coming across the border, coming from jails, from prisons, coming from mental institutions and insane asylum terrorists. We need strong people in this country. We don’t need weak people,” Trump continued.
How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation
(The New Republic) But there was one other meeting that Orbán took while in the U.S. that hasn’t received enough attention—and points directly to how Orbán has cultivated American conservatives to his cause and created a beachhead for Hungarian influence in Washington. On Friday, he spoke at a closed-door meeting at the Heritage Foundation’s headquarters in the nation’s capital.
Is There Something More Radical than MAGA? J.D. Vance Is Dreaming It.
(Politico) One year into his first term representing Ohio, Vance has completed a dramatic evolution from outspoken Never Trumper to unwavering Trump loyalist and dogged defender of the ex-president’s most authoritarian assertions — from the lie that the 2020 election was stolen to the legally dubious claim the president is immune from criminal prosecution.
Over 35 Years Ago, Donald Trump Tells Oprah Exactly What He Would Do If Things Got Bad Enough…
(100%FedUp) Listen as he tells Oprah he has no desire to run for President because it’s a tough life, but then he says he would never close the door on it in case things got so bad in America that he had to.
‘60 Minutes’ Wages Propaganda War On Moms For Liberty With ‘Book Ban’ Lies
(The Federalist) Nearly five months ago, “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley interviewed Moms for Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich about their ostensible crusade to “ban books” in public school libraries. And then a few days ago, CBS News finally aired a version of the interview that depicted Justice, Descovich, and Moms for Liberty as a group of unhinged, inarticulate Karens who stand against tolerance, education, and moderation.
Tulsi Gabbard Should Be Secretary of State, Not Vice President
(American Conservative) Following her speech at CPAC last weekend, there have been a number of stories in trash generators like the Daily Beast and New York Magazine about Tulsi Gabbard’s alleged “journey” from Democrat to fanatical MAGA authoritarian and the like.
Don’t Let The ‘Christian Nationalist’ Slur Shame You Into Hiding Your Faith
(The Federalist) Politico came out swinging on Tuesday with the tired “Christian nationalist” slur in an article about a second Donald Trump term. It intended to shame conservatives who “believe that the country was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life” — in other words, mainstream Christians.
Lara Trump Vows Largest-Ever Legal ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Operation If Elected RNC Co-Chair
(Zerohedge) Ballot harvesting, which is legal in many states, allows people to deliver other voters’ absentee or mail-in ballots to election officials. Some fear this practice facilitates election fraud. Republicans have long frowned upon it; Democrats have taken advantage of it. “Whether or not they [Democrats] do it legally, that’s up for discussion,” Ms. Trump said.
‘MAGA Will Govern for 50 Years’: Steve Bannon Opens CPAC With Prediction of Trump Victory Amid ‘Three Global Crises’
(Mediaite) “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party,” Trump fumed in January 2018.
The growing peril of national conservatism
(The Economist) Despite its name, national conservatism could not be more different from the ideas of Reagan and Thatcher. Rather than being sceptical of big government, national conservatives think ordinary people are beset by impersonal global forces and that the state is their saviour. Unlike Reagan and Thatcher, they hate pooling sovereignty in multilateral organisations, they suspect free markets of being rigged by the elites and they are hostile to migration
Tucker Carlson: Radicalized By His Trip To Moscow
(Zerohedge) In a post last week (“A Good Weekend For Russia”), when news broke that Tucker Carlson was in Moscow and might be interviewing Putin, we wrote: Even if he doesn’t get an interview with Putin, Tucker is likely to report what he sees there, and what he’s going to see is a city that looks like it’s doing well economically (on top of being cleaner and safer than American cities like New York or Los Angeles).
The Claremont Institute Is Upsetting the Right People
(American Conservative) That’s why we’ve been the subject of extended profiles (some more negative than others) in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Atlantic, and other major left-wing publications in just the last couple of years. Not bad for a think-tank whose annual budget is equal to the cost of a few of the missiles that America lobs ineffectually at Houthi tribesmen in Yemen.
Another Trump Presidency Won’t Much Change U.S. Foreign Policy
(Foreign Policy) If we turn to foreign policy, the differences are not so stark. Although many people now fear that a second Trump term would have dramatic effects on U.S. foreign policy, I suspect the differences will be less significant than you might think. Trump will be erratic, mercurial, boorish, and confrontational—especially toward America’s NATO allies—just as he was during his first term. But in other respects, a second Trump term may not be that different from what Biden would do should he win another four years in office.
DeSantis Will Bounce Back
(American Greatness) Over the next few days and weeks ahead, the pundits, the critics, and social media “influencers” will no doubt continue their nastiness and direct their vitriol at DeSantis—as they pathetically try to write off his future political aspirations as dead on arrival. They sure do love kicking people when they’re down, especially when that person is a Republican.
How To Move On From Ron, For DeSantis’s Understandably Disappointed Supporters
(The Federalist) DeSantis, also known as “the greatest Republican governor of my lifetime,” effectively ended his so very disappointing campaign for president on Sunday. As politicians of the same party routinely do after primaries, he immediately endorsed his competitor Donald Trump. That should be all his supporters needed to swallow however hard is necessary and do the same, but the wounds are apparently not just superficial for some of Team DeSantis.
The MAGA Saga Must Play Out
(Newsmax) Trump pulled in an overwhelming majority 60% support, leading Haley by 22 points, after the departure of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from the race. DeSantis endorsed Trump, along with former GOP presidential primary candidates Vivek Ramaswamy, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
Recent Comments