Why Autocrats Are Replacing Democrats
High among the reasons that autocrats are on the rise is that the centrist parties being shoved aside are perceived as having failed the people in their most basic demands. ...
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Will Diversity Be the Death of the Democrats?
The Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversity as its own and as America’s “greatest strength.” Yet, lately, the party seems to be careening into a virtual war of all...
Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide?
The question is why Democrats, who, if nominated, are likely to face Donald Trump in 2020, are signing on to so radical a scheme as the Green New Deal. ...
Has Trump Found the Formula for 2020?
If the pollsters at CNN and CBS are correct, Donald Trump may have found the formula for winning a second term in 2020. ...
Sacrificing Northam Will Not Be Enough
After Northam, the radical Left will demand that the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who will echo their convictions about America’s past. ...
Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who’s Right?
While it’s not unusual for a president and the intel community to diverge on the gravity of threats, what is astonishing is that the intel leaders would declare a president to...
If the Army Stands With Maduro, What Is Plan B?
If Maduro, with America’s prestige on the line, defies our demand that he yield, what do we do then? What is Plan B? “Assad must go!” said Barack Obama. Well, Assad...
When Democracy Fails to Deliver
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ... make violent revolution inevitable,” said John F. Kennedy. ...
At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last." So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out...
Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War With Iran?
"Stop the ENDLESS WARS!" implored President Donald Trump in a Sunday night tweet. Well, if he is serious, Trump had best keep an eye on his national security adviser, for a...
Memo to Trump: Declare an Emergency
In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump's stand on a border wall to defend the sovereignty and security of the United States. ...
No, This Is Not JFK’s Democratic Party
Is there no limit to the ideological, political, religious, racial and ethnic diversity a party and nation can tolerate before it comes apart? ...
Trump and The Post: Whose Side Is Mitt On?
If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment than The Washington Post, it does not readily come to mind. ...
How the War Party Lost the Middle East
"Assad must go, Obama says." So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011. ...
2020: Year of the Democrats? Maybe Not
If Democrats are optimistic as 2019 begins, it is understandable. ...