Why ban TikTok? Because China! Because Internet! Banning TikTok may or may not be the answer to a maiden’s prayer, but for many Democrats and Republicans, it is a much needed balm for all their wounds, or so they are so foolish to believe. Democrats and Republicans are unhappy because neither can command the support…
Tag: Democrats
Back to “Normal” in 21? We should be so lucky.
There’s been a meme floating around for the past several years, pushed perhaps most assiduously by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, and given another shove in his recent column “There Will Be No Trump Coup”, picturing that man in the White House as a “noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat”, an embarrassment rather than…
An embarrassment of parties, an embarrassment of elites
The New Hampshire results are in, and both parties look terrible. For the Republicans, the base is worse than the leadership. For the Democrats, the leadership is worse than the base. Half the Republican base generally regards foreigners as job-stealing, welfare-loving rapists and terrorists. Such rank nativism hasn’t played a significant role in American politics…