Donald Trump’s election win is an Emperor’s New Clothes event for America, an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime of oppressive insanities we have been subjected to for a decade or more.
Quick rollout of top national security appointments suggests a foreign policy of affirmative and targeted engagement.
Kamala Harris’s party completely alienated its blue-collar voting base, framing them either as nasty bigots or helpless victims.
His success across diverse demographics should force his critics to rethink their worst assumptions. This is a moment of sudden and unexpected clarity.
Like all elections, this one will have consequences, all the more so because we’re so deeply polarised.
With polls neck and neck and the country polarised, the anger generated by a turbulent election campaign is unlikely to subside. And yet, the US has faced worse strife and democracy has held.
The Democrats’ deceitfully vacuous campaign and their empty pantsuit of a candidate incessantly blurting inanities is an abuse of voters’ scruples. If punishing them means rewarding Trump, that’s a bargain the voters may prove willing to strike.
Two highly credible former aides have raised the rhetorical stakes about the dangers of re-electing the Republican.
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to worry these epochal storms may have profound effects on the political future of the United States.
If Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney can agree, they can’t possibly be wrong—or right, for that matter.
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