Analysis: Former Vice President Mike Pence has a new book out arguing that Republicans need to return to the Reagan-era version of conservatism and move away from the populism associated with Donald Trump. Pence sees Trump populism as a departure from conservative principles. Many conservatives, myself included, see it differently.
The real debate is not whether Ronald Reagan was right for his time. The real debate is whether the world that Reagan confronted is the same world we face today.
Gad Saad, a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi, warns how misdirected empathy endangers not just well-intentioned individuals but Western civilization itself.
Analysis: For years, Americans watched Washington operate like a machine designed to protect itself instead of the people it serves. Career politicians promised reform, then governed exactly the same way as their predecessors. Endless bureaucracy, weak leadership abroad, economic uncertainty, and cultural chaos became the accepted status quo.
The American people finally said enough.
That is why Donald J. Trump was elected again.
Updated: The Tulsa Republican Club (TRC) has been dissociated from the Republican Party of Oklahoma (OKGOP) by the State Executive Committee, the governing body of the party with all 77 Counties represented. They took this unusual formal action based on TRC’s public and private acts and statements asserted to be contrary to Republican principles.
Analysis: The death cult named “Islamic Republic of Iran” declared war on the world. Never a republic, some argue it is a heresy of all Islam. Regardless, the drive to destroy the world in Armageddon is anti-civilization. Christians, among others, have fought their own heresies. Scholars of Islam have corrected their own, but without much media notice.
