It is “amusing”, insofar as watching the death of what future historians will call “The First American Republic” can be “amusing”, to watch yet another crop of innocents, who somehow maintained their innocence through the events of January 6, 2021 and thereafter, to discover that, you know, Donald Trump is a very, very bad man!…
Tag: Yuval Levin
Shorter Yuval Levin: Just because the Republican Party’s right wing is acting like a bunch of nihilistic idiots doesn’t prove that they are a bunch of nihilistic idiots. At least, I hope it doesn’t.
Yeah, philosophical gent that he is, ole Yuval likes to take the long perspective on things, and after some hemming and hawing about what’s been going on in the House of Representatives, comes up with this conclusion: Even if the spoils of the speaker fight [i.e., the “reforms’ demanded by the far right] aren’t transformative,…
Yuval Levin (and Ramesh Ponnuru and Ross Douthat) and the utter hypocrisy of the “responsible Republican”
Yuval Levin, hailed by none other than Lyin’ Paulie Ryan as a serious conservative thinker, has a ponderous, and thoroughly repulsive “think piece” up at the New York Times, Democrats, Voting Rights Are Not the Problem, in which he tries to pretend that there are good arguments for election law reform “on both sides”! Because…
Ramesh and Yuval, less than generous, less than ingenuous
Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin have a heavy rap on how to replace Obamacare over at the National Review, a piece that occasioned less than reverent comment on the left, to which Ponnuru and Levin respond, rather tartly, here. The piece has drawn some critical responses in the past few days — from Ezra Klein,…