Establishment icon/piñata David Brooks, who surely was born with a “Kick Me Repeatedly, And With A Passion” sign on his broad rear end, has done it again, announcing that it is time for all good Republicans to come to the aid of their party and prevent that awful Donald Trump or that awful Ted Cruz…
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The House that Krauthammer built
Back in the day, back in 1987, when the facts of what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal first hit the fan, wide-eyed Reaganite Andy Sullivan was appalled. Ronald Reagan’s White House secretly sold weapons to Iranian terrorists and used the money to finance Nicaraguan “freedom fighters” (aka “terrorists”), an activity specifically banned by the…
It’s Whiter than White: It’s Republican White!
Sam Tannenhaus has a very good read at the New Republic about how the Republican Party, and Sen. Barry Goldwater in particular, traveled from being the champions of racial integration to being the defenders, not of segregation, but of the “right to segregate’—“neither a segregated society nor an integrated society, but a free society,” as…