Tag: GOP

I’ve always been a bit of a squish when it comes to being on the center right. In Canada and the UK, I would probably be considered a “Red Tory” since I tend to have a more communitarian and paternalistic view of government that doesn’t always jive with the more libertarian n...

Elect Donald Trump president next year and immigration issues apparently will cease, he is telling us — along with any restrictions normally associated with law, court order or tip of the hat to human rights. While skipping the niceties of participating in any policy debate with his Republi...

Kellyanne Conway, the political strategist who managed Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, suggests that the GOP would gain voters by encouraging access to birth control. Not likely. The party’s current push against birth control and for extreme abortion bans make it a ha...

For over four months Biden administration has been trying to figure out how to continue to help our key ally in their fight for freedom. America used to be Ukraine’s key ally against Russian desire to conquer it and other ex-Soviet states. But since arrival of Johnson as the speaker of the Hou...

Its shadowy beginnings, and popular nickname, meant it would eventually go down in history as somewhat of a joke. Yet in their time, the Know-Nothings made their dangerous presence known, and at the time no one was laughing. The party unsuccessfully ran candidates for president, including, in one...

Conservatives often respond to criticism of Trump and other Republicans with the line, “the Democrats are just as bad.” Sometimes they’ll even add that the Democrats used to protect the working class, but now they’re just “woke” extremists. This has been the narra...

There is no cohesion in the Republican party from the highest level to the local organizations. The once proud Republican party is in shambles. It has split in half from deep divisions with terminal consequences. Leaders and members of the Democratic party are trying to hide their glee with carefull...

Recent news has not been kind to Republicans. The shootings in Atlanta and Boulder have reignited a gun control debate that, if the GOP continues arguing in the way it currently is, will be lost. The border situation continues to bring out the worst of the party, as anti-immigration candidates conti...

More than 120. That was a lot of Zoom windows. I can’t even imagine how you would manage a discussion on Zoom involving that many people. All of them are united in their disgust over the party’s refusal to stop Trump’s efforts to undermine democracy as demonstrated by his attemp...