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How to be grateful despite Trump

How is everybody coping with the decline of America? I’ll tell you how I’m doing in a bit, but first I have a few observations about Thanksgiving. I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve heard someone declare that Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. I used to say it myself, before I ...

Mass deportation appropriate response to mass immigration

There is about to be an outbreak of lawfulness in the United States, and Democrats and the press can’t handle it. President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of “mass deportation” is being treated as a clear and present danger to the American order that blue jurisdictions need to mobilize to ...

What if most Americans aren’t bitterly divided?

Among elites across the ideological spectrum, there’s one point of unifying agreement: Americans are bitterly divided. What if that’s wrong? What if elites are the ones who are bitterly divided while most Americans are fairly unified? History rarely lines up perfectly with the calendar ...

Guardian on Trump’s tariff promises, global fair trade

“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff,” Donald Trump told business leaders in October. “It’s my favourite word. It needs a public relations firm.” Now, with his election victory, Mr Trump’s words send a shiver through global capitals. Many fear he may pull a ...

Near-hopeless time tests us

It’s been a few weeks, but it feels like an eternity. It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss — not just the loss of the election but the seeming loss of America. Not just America, but the apparent loss of the world as we knew it. In reality, we lost by a ...

Zen of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays. But there is something almost un-American about it. It is a day opposed to striving, to getting more. We stop adding up the numbers on the scorecard of life. We freeze in place and give thanks for whatever is there. The Wall Street Journal once ...