American - | November 11, 1954 -
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
Charlie Sykes
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Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry, short stories, and letters. Trump, in his own hand, writes 140-character tweets.
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At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.
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The primary victory of Roy Moore in Alabama over the candidate for the U.S. Senate seat backed by President Trump suggests that that not even Trump himself can control the forces that he unleashed.
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For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.
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It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and they are taking to the task with great relish.
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The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.
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Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government.
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For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
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