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Trump echoes McCarthy

Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of communists in the government, but he couldn't show you the names right now. The number of communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech. Listening to Donald Trump's legal team claim over and over again that they have voluminous evidence that the election was stolen, it occurred to me that we're in a kind of repeat McCarthy era. Only this time, to borrow from that old-school communist Karl Marx, history is repeating itself not as tragedy but as farce. Take Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who ...

Biden shouldn’t touch Warp Speed

Joe Biden is fearmongering that "more people may die" because the Trump administration hasn't begun transitioning oversight over the COVID-19 vaccines to the Biden team. "There was a plan for 300 million doses to be available at the end of the year. What they're reporting now is 20 to 30 million doses available. Why? Where are the bottlenecks? " A confused Biden mixed up the numbers. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, predicts 20 million doses will be shipped out on Dec. 11 and 12, and immediately administered to health care workers and other high-risk populations, ...

Republicans need diversity

Big questions remain about what exactly happened in the 2020 election. I've been looking over history, compiled on the Statista website, of total votes cast in presidential elections compared with the number of eligible voters. 2020 seems very, very odd. The number of votes reported in 2020 exceeded the total number of votes cast in 2016 by 22 million. This is larger than the population of Florida, the nation's third-most-populous state, and almost as large as the population of Texas, the second-most-populous state. According to Statista, votes of 66.5% of eligible voters were ...

Republicans retain advantage

One of the many big surprises in this month's surprising election was the Democrats' failure to overturn Republican majorities in state legislatures. Various Democratic committees budgeted $88 million to flip majorities in big states such as Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Total gains: zero. That's a bad return on lavish investments in money and psychic energy. Liberals have been bemoaning partisan redistricting as a betrayal of democracy, as politicians removing choice from the people. Such rhetoric is overheated and ahistorical. Those who have followed redistricting since the ...

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Next culture war is slow

Like horses at the starting gate, the better conservative pundits are galloping off to the next thing, which is really an old thing: the culture wars. But what a nice change from having to negotiate between traditional conservative doctrine and Donald Trumpian mobs threatening them for frowning in the president's direction. The culture war is a perennial topic and one about which conservatives make some sound arguments. But it's also a cheap political date, a way to win applause without spending much. Thus, quality counts. If we're off to the next culture, let's make it a good ...