Politics and politicians are ephemeral; principles are timeless. Trump hijacked the GOP—aided and abetted by spineless accomplices in the GOP and right wing infotainment looking for the political Flavor Du Jour to boost clicks/ratings, not caring if it was good for the country. x.com/CountryFirstRe…

“Never in the history of American politics have so many compromised themselves so completely for a man so corrupt.” -Marshall Power Locke

The new right lacks a conservative sensibility. It doesn’t conserve but chases change. Employing the rhetoric of the Jacobin, it overthrows establishments and smites elites. It’s not a revolution to restore anything but to create something new that has never existed in America.

I didn’t think she’d turn on Trump, but apparently she’s going nuclear.

The Merced River in Yosemite Valley was absolutely gushing today. The highest November river flow in Yosemite Valley since 1973.

A lot of GOP congress critters will see this and do what Trump wants them to do: cower/remain silent. But my sense is that, over time, the #MAGA coalition will continue to fragment, and Trump's power will diminish as more speak out and chart their post-Trump future.

Trump backs down RE, vote in House on Epstein files. wsj.com/politics/polic…

“There is no greater rebuke to isolationism than Auschwitz. Isolationists know this, which is why they spend so much time relitigating World War II.” commentary.org/articles/james…

Thanks to President Trump no longer hitting you in the nuts with a cricket bat, your nuts should hurt less. You're welcome, America.

Guessing Will Sommer is going to be pretty busy in the coming weeks. This one is a banger open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

In recent weeks, there has been something like a conservative awakening to the horror show that the American Right, to a considerable degree, has become. My better nature says, "Good." The worse one says, "Now? Now?"

The Oval Office looks like a cross between the best whorehouse in Baghdad and Liberace’s bathroom.

Reminder: Epstein victims were NOT "barely legal." "Barely legal" would be 18 years old. 17 is illegal. 16 is illegal. 15 is illegal. 14 is illegal. They weren't "underage women" or "young women" at those ages. They were girls. Children cannot consent to sex and it was rape.

c: Ed Stetzer

Who else is excited to be bribed with their own money shortly before the midterm elections? 🙄

The Bonespur-Bonesaw summit begins.

The people who hate David French *are not conservatives.* They are right-populists, Trump sycophants, and former conservatives with guilty consciences who resent feeling rebuked by French's earnest moralism.

"Middle-class shoppers are pulling back, sending alarms through the retail industry: 'There are signs of real distress on the way'". businessinsider.com/middle-class-s…

Yes, Saudi Arabia is important to U.S. national security interests. Yes, MBS had a critic of his murdered and dismembered, and it is appropriate to make him squirm. Yes, Trump often confuses and conflates what's good for him with what's good for the country.

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