Rob Portman was the Republican co-chairman of the Senate Ukraine Caucus. He was replaced in the Senate by J.D. Vance. There is no neater illustration of the trajectory of the GOP. thedispatch.com/article/a-plan…

'Sickening' is the word. Brownshirty.

Patrick, I was so sick of hearing this, from the cocksure ignoramuses among us, I wrote a piece on the subject (a good way to cure, or ameliorate, sickness): nationalreview.com/2023/08/sweet-…

Pardon the cliché, from the Watergate era, but: follow the money.

It was done in 2001. Our foreign adversaries should not be deceived by American anti-Americans on left and right: This country will defend itself, with vigor.

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On an English country lane. Wish you could smell these flowers — perfuming the air.

By Lindsay Zoladz⁩, a highly interesting article. (I did not know that the ham-sandwich thing is untrue.) nytimes.com/2024/05/09/art…

True to form.

Vance and Hawley, sure — they are two of the leading Buchananites in U.S. politics. But the transformation of Marco Rubio, I still find amazing. Of course, he will be reelected forever — which I guess is the point.

N.B.

Kept a picture of Baruch Goldstein in his living room. Honestly: fuck him. (And long live Israel.)

This is a damn interesting woman. What will her presidency bring? A story to keep an eye on. A most interesting country — beginning with its name. rferl.org/a/north-macedo…

A thugocracy, like so many. Brownshirtery everywhere.

Exactly. Perfectly expressed.

Ah.

“Maintenance workers had a firsthand view of how protesters seized the building, and wondered why the university failed to stop it.” By Sharon Otterman (⁦Sharon Otterman⁩) — fascinating. nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyr…

This is just one story. But sometimes one story can stand for a whole drama, or a whole war -- a whole invasion, a whole assault. The civilized world ought to band together to stop Putin.

He's home.

Yes.