An incredible amount of money is sloshing around Project 2025 and related efforts, which makes them an inevitable magnet for grifters. But people just looking to get paid are not exactly known for their ability to tackle complicated strategic challenges. reason.com/2024/08/29/onl…

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Fortunately my private life has afforded me vast experience at enduring heartbreak.

Project 2025 is no match for MAGA dysfunction: Donald Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different? Cover story: reason.pub/3XnYKuw

The Ohio senator doesn't want to limit government power. He wants to use it against his political enemies. (Stephanie) Slade Trump Doubled Down on Authoritarianism by Selecting J.D. Vance buff.ly/3z4GgpA

Here are some posts from the guy Tucker frames as a worthwhile source looking to expose the truth about WWII and Hitler. He’s an open fascist. That’s not my spin, it’s his own description of his views.

Tucker Carlson just released his newest podcast episode, where his guest denies German guilt for either World War II or the Holocaust (it's actually all Churchill's fault, apparently) and Tucker just approvingly nods for 90min. A good time to repost this: nationalreview.com/corner/we-need…

After his Russia trip, I thought Heritage Foundation might want to distance itself from Tucker Carlson. Instead, Kevin Roberts announced he would be appearing at an event with Tucker this fall. reason.com/2024/08/29/onl…

If *this* is the ethos that conservative groups are looking for as they prepare to staff a second Trump administration, it's hard not to be afraid.

Here you go, @senmarcorubio. I fixed your image for you to improve its historical accuracy.

Since everyone is sharing their I-told-you-so receipts about Tucker Carlson today, here's mine: reason.com/2023/05/11/tuc…

I'm always interested in how controversial historians and political scientists (on the left and right) selectively wield the concept of agency. The easiest way to revise history is to assume highest agency for your villain and lowest agency for your anti-villain. So you get -

Would love to know whether Roberts/Heritage are having any second thoughts about this appearance.

My reason Interview is w Eric Boehm, whose new pod Why We Can't Have Nice Things explains why health care is so dysfunctional & features Mark Cuban talking abt Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. +Eric explains how Bob Marley's I Shot the Sheriff made him libertarian reason.com/podcast/2024/0…

My side bears no responsibility for the state of our politics, says guy with “proudly intolerant of conservatism” in his bio.

Return of the Strong Gods, Part II “Liberalism has failed. Let the strong gods return!” Strong gods return. “ No no no! —by ‘strong gods’ I meant the administrative state and labor unions.”

One cannot tell the extent to which Vance is an unprincipled opportunist, a true believer, or just a very online guy. What we do know is that he moves among a small circle of intellectuals who toy with dangerous, deeply un-American ideas. thebulwark.com/p/influence-au…