Daniel McCarthy @ToryAnarchist Twitter profile

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

2 months

British right: We want Brexit Tory party: Here’s “Dave” Cameron Right: We voted for Brexit Tories: You get Theresa May Right: Cut immigration Tories: Even Liz Truss is a little much—here’s Rishi Sunak Right: We’re voting Farage Tories: How dare you enable Labour!

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Nobody can say these precautions are for fear of Trump voters in DC. And that tells you it isn’t Trump who threatens to reject the election’s results.

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Facebook’s banning of Donald Trump is akin to the phone company or a cable monopoly banning a party leader back in the day. It’s a major partisan intervention—an attempt to control political discourse in a democracy at the level of communications infrastructure.

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It still amazes me that the Covington media debacle was barely a day after the Buzzfeed media debacle, the most explicit proof possible that no lessons were learned about bias and credulity.

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Daniel McCarthy

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It’s not as if the virus is going to stop mutating. If it’s omicron now, it’ll be omega later. Time for those who still want lockdowns and masks to admit this is permanent—you have no exit strategy. I compared COVID to the Afghan War months ago and was more right than I knew.

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4 years

George Orwell could not improve on this.

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@ABC

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Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.

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"The one thing you have over me is experience, but it's bad experience." The core Trump rationale: policies of last 20 years are disastrous.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

The “killing Soleimani means Iran goes to war” instant consensus reminds me an awful lot of the instant consensus that said a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem would unleash massive violence. And Soleimani wasn’t exactly a force for regional stability or a champion of noninterventionism.

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Daniel McCarthy

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6 years

What makes a woke tough-guy like @rezaaslan want to beat up a kid? Not facts, of which are sorely lacking in the rush to condemn the Covington Catholic teens,

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Daniel McCarthy

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5 years

Did conservatives unfairly criticize Mueller? No—his report vindicates their concerns. Mueller cleared Trump in fact—no prosecution—but still tried to harm him politically by claiming to make no call about obstruction. Yet to recommend prosecution or not *is* the call.

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Daniel McCarthy

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2 months

Rubbish—the party suppressed the truth about Biden until he exposed it himself in the debate. There was no honest, competitive primary. Biden’s dropping out only now that polls make clear he’ll lose to Trump if he stays in. No reason to stay in.

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@DamonLinker

2 months

One lesson: For all of its abundant problems, the Democratic Party in 2024 is still a party and not a cult of personality around one man.

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Daniel McCarthy

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4 years

Liberals claiming to be against “fascism” now 1.) idolize a military man nicknamed “Mad Dog,” 2.) demand the banishing of views they dislike from the press, and 3.) justify street violence in the name of political change. Are you all trying to prove @JonahDispatch right?

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This credentialed-class nihilist is inciting the destruction of the Washington Monument.

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This is what the election is ultimately about—does the elite consolidate power through politics, or do truckers, plumbers, cops, and stay-at-home mom get to keep some meaningful representation? Trump doesn’t have to be perfect in their eyes, he just has to resist the ruling class

Anna Massoglia

@annalecta

4 years

Fascinating dataviz of political contributions by occupation & employer in Election 2020: Donald Trump's top donors include NYPD, U.S. Marines, ranchers & homeowners. Facebook employees, university professors & others in academia gave more to Joe Biden.

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The people who say it’s too soon to get out of Syria are, not coincidentally, mostly the same people who say it’s too soon to get out of Afghanistan after 17 years.

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6 years

Why do distinguished historians forget that Bill Clinton, unlike Nixon, actually was impeached for obstruction, and his party wouldn’t vote to remove him? Clinton was 20 years ago, Nixon nearly 50, yet curiously Nixon gets the attention, almost as if there’s a partisan bias.

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@NPRinskeep

6 years

Distinguished historian:

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3 years

A right-wing issue elected a centrist Republican in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Don’t mistake that for a popular endorsement of Carlyle Group Republicanism.

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Daniel McCarthy

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5 years

Y’know, if Trump loses in November he could run again in 2024 and he’d be the same age Biden is now.

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@ToryAnarchist

3 years

These are some of the most beautiful words I’ve ever read. From a hit piece on John McEntee, but they actually show why America needs the populist right.

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It’s pretty significant if Dem governors in PA, MI, and NC, plus a senator in AZ, aren’t seen as being able to deliver the 0.5 to 1.5 pts it would take to win their states. Suggests Harris internals paint a bleak picture.

Yamiche Alcindor

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Meanwhile, Josh Shapiro was seen as not someone who could deliver the state of Pennsylvania based on internal polling. The source also said Harris’ team was unconvinced that any one person could guaranteed any of the battleground states for the ticket.

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9 years

All you mocking Chris Christie won't find it so funny when you hear what Secretary of Transportation Christie has in store for you...

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@ToryAnarchist

3 years

They saw it work for the Iraq War promoters, so they figure it’ll work for them too. Especially since they’re largely the same people.

Mollie

@MZHemingway

3 years

BlueAnon will never admit how much they harmed the country with their Russia lies or repent for what they did. They’ll just keep repeating the lies to further the harm. Corporate media delenda est.

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2 months

If Kamala is getting Biden-like poll numbers two weeks from now, will Democrats dump her too? Convention is a long four weeks away…

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

Far from “lurching from one international crisis to another,” as Hickenlooper claims, under Trump we’ve stayed out of the wars and crises characteristic of Bush and Obama. The establishment in both parties longs for more Iraqs, Libyas, and Syrias. It’s why we have Trump instead.

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@ToryAnarchist

6 years

“a full half of YouTube traffic was ‘bots masquerading as people,’ a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake.”

Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸

@mattdpearce

6 years

Getting easier to imagine an economy with zero human beings in it.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

2 months

The Tories, like pre-Trump GOP, were deeply afraid of being tagged as right-wing. As soon as right-wing voters had a choice—Reform—they defected. Cameron-Bush soft conservatism isn’t coming back, but too many Tories and Republicans still think they can be non-right.

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@ToryAnarchist

4 years

Nothing to see here—just a Democratic operative who’s now a Facebook exec boasting about squelching a @nypost story, presumably the Biden-Burisma report. One for @rachelbovard ’s @Facebook bias files.

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3 years

Response by @HawleyMO ‘s spokesman is excellent—“‘Senator Hawley's views have definitely changed...If the twenty-year failed experiment in 'neo-conservative' globalism in the Middle East doesn't convince you that nation building doesn't work, nothing will,’ Letsou told CNN.”

Daniel W. Drezner

@dandrezner

3 years

“As president of the Yale Law School Federalist Society just over a decade and a half ago, Hawley... wrote numerous blog posts in favor of nation building in Iraq, and backing the Bush administration's ‘broader geo-strategic goals.’”

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2 years

Donald Trump deserves the credit for Dobbs. The Bushes appointed a mix of Roe-affirming and Roe-opposed justices. Trump broke the mold—all his justices voted to overturn Roe. If Trump was “transactional,” that was more effective than the abstract promises of ideological principle

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

Trump is being impeached because of a conspiracy theory—and there are a lot of them to go around right now, I argue.

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

5 years

The Trump years have been clouded by too many conspiracy theories and not enough open debate about differing visions for the country, writes @ToryAnarchist

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

3 years

Maybe nation-building did work. It was just the Taliban’s nation we were building.

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

3 years

WARNING 🚨 DO NOT be fooled! This video does NOT show *American* troops in Kabul. These are TALIBAN troops wearing AMERICAN tactical gear, brandishing AMERICAN weapons and AMERICAN night vision goggles & inspecting the helicopters AMERICANS left for them:

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5 years

All the more reason to reduce U.S. reliance on China—why would you want another country to have a “stranglehold” on such basic consumer items?

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The list of consumer items that China has a near stranglehold on includes dog leashes, bicycles and vacuum cleaners

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

4 years

. @MZHemingway is exactly right, as I argue in @amconmag today:

Mollie

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4 years

John Kerry, who was part of a failed bipartisan foreign policy consensus going back decades says Trump is Bad Orange Man. But perhaps the biggest underreported story of Trump admin is that he has been an absolutely FANTASTIC foreign policy president.

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DeSantis cites Eisenhower’s Farewell Address—both its warning about the military-industrial complex and its warning about deferring to anything labeled as science. #natcon3

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3 years

Leftist racism is incredibly unpopular—so why hasn’t the institutional right been fighting it like @realchrisrufo all along?

How to win the culture war

Progressives fight for the culture by the rules of war, combining propaganda and political power with economic superiority

thespectator.com

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

6 years

If the media were to do real soul-searching here, pundits would look at how the years-long narrative of “deplorable” Trump people & “toxic masculinity” established the biases that short-circuited critical thinking and caused a stampede against these teens.

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5 years

A third failed presidential impeachment amounts to Congress calling its own bluff—and losing any ability to inspire fear or respect in the executive, I argue.

The Spectator World

@TheSpectator

5 years

"In terms of popular support, legal power, now even psychological intimidation, Congress is unarmed before the executive," writes @ToryAnarchist

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J.D. Vance is the new Great Communicator—disarmingly casual, easygoing, yet disciplined and morally serious. He made big issues concrete, while never reducing the stories he told to mere decoration. He combines qualities that in others are opposites. That’s mastery.

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4 years

Lil Pump is on stage at the Trump campaign conclusion rally—thanks the president for brining the troops home. Excellent.

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Daniel McCarthy

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1 year

If Iraq War promoters like @MaxBoot and @davidfrum are serious about reflecting on their mistakes, they must ask why Pat Buchanan, @RonPaul , and the “unpatriotic conservatives” at @amconmag , @mises , and @ChroniclesMag got the war right:

Why the Paleos Were Right About Iraq

Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: The paleocons were right about the Iraq War because they were right about liberalism.

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Daniel McCarthy

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6 years

Portrait of an oligarchy: Senator for Wall Street and congresswoman from the Bay Area speak for the people who insist that low-skill immigration never be curtailed.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

8 years

Well done, @AJDelgado13 !

A.J. Delgado

@AJDelgado13

8 years

To the hundreds who mocked me saying I would regret this tweet Nov 8 and quietly delete it.... Guess what!!! 👍🏻😂🇺🇸👌🏻

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@robbm02 That’s what I’m addressing. Nobody sane thought Mueller was so biased as to fabricate evidence of crimes that didn’t exist. But he’s done what he can to poison the exoneration.

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Daniel McCarthy

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5 years

Problem with the “this is just like the Iraq War!” hype—an Iran invasion has little popular support, no allied support, isn’t what the president wants, and would take mobilization on a scale far beyond anything that’s happening.

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11 months

Ron Paul receives Defender of the Republic award.

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@ToryAnarchist

4 years

It’s comical that leftists respond to the persistence of politically correct attacks on free thought by saying that if it was a problem in the early ‘90s, it can’t be a problem now. In fact, the curbing of early ‘90s PC craziness shows that fighting PC is important & can work.

Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

4 years

Someone show this to the brave new thinkers over at Persuasion

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Daniel McCarthy

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9 years

Trump endorsements keep piling up.

The Hill

@thehill

9 years

Miley Cyrus vows to leave US if Trump wins:

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

“working-class voters of all races account for more than two-thirds of all GOP voters, Journal/NBC News polling over the years shows.” Fascinating data in this WSJ report.

WSJ Politics

@WSJPolitics

5 years

The Republican Party’s demographics and priorities have shifted since 2016. Will those trends carry the president through impeachment to a second term—and endure after him?

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A salesman for the Iraq War says “advanced democracies” wage war reluctantly. Argue they’re all good if you want, but don’t pretend the U.S. hasn’t been at war virtually nonstop since 1991. In that time, what region of the world has become more secure, liberal, or pro-American?

David Frum

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Advanced democratic societies are very reluctant to wage war, but adept at it when pushed into it. Their adversaries are less inhibited about lower-level violence, but not so good at war when they succeed in provoking it. That's the fundamental asymmetry we're debating on X.

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Democrats can’t win with Biden but can’t rid themselves of him, either:

Democrats chose Biden — now they're doomed in 2024

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll has Biden trailing Donald Trump by nine points, 42% to 51%.

nypost.com

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And let’s not forget all the Pravda-grade bullshit about how Premier Biden was in the best of health and only he could save us from fascism—followed by the swerve of Comrade Biden retiring (but not for health reasons of course), and better, more beloved leader Kamala saving USSA.

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It really has. A Politburo coup. Khrushchev put out to pasture in his dacha.

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5 years

Trump has strong support among religious Hindus and Orthodox Jews, and won young white voters in 2016. He also won the White House by adding the Rust Belt to his coalition and improving margins with many minorities. There’s zero evidence Frenchism produces a broader coalition.

Ross Douthat

@DouthatNYT

5 years

I broadly share the vision of a populist/social conservative fusionism being articulated at @firstthingsmag , among other places. But as a political project its effectiveness will depend on converting some group of minorities, women, and younger Americans to its vision.

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Strong argument from @LeeSmithDC at the @AmMomentOrg / @amconmag conference contending that the mainstream media should be considered a part of the intelligence community. Cites Russiagate, Hunter Biden’s laptop: intelligence-media coordination to control flow of information.

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5 years

Good grief! Jefferson thought Hamilton a seditious monarchist, Federalists thought Jefferson a revolutionary Jacobin. In 1812 Henry Lee got lynched by a Democratic mob. Trump is Mr. Rogers compared to the politics of the early republic. Our politics has never been for wimps.

Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

5 years

A question for @LarryArnn @hughhewitt @AndrewCMcCarthy @RpwWilliams : what would the Framers think of a president who repeatedly accused political adversaries of treason for behavior other than levying War against the U.S., adhering to its enemies, or giving them Aid and Comfort?

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3 years

Napalm Death

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Name this band. Wrong answers only.

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Excellent remarks by @JDVance1 at @AmMomentOrg / @amconmag foreign policy event today. Vance warns against the excessive moralism of our foreign-policy elites, while noting C.S. Lewis’s fiction is a better guide to reality than the nonfiction books of Bill Kristol or David Frum.

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A guy who voted for the Communist Party USA now calls the president a pro-Moscow traitor. I look at the curious case of John Brennan and the flap over his security clearance, in @SpectatorUSA ,

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“Jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war.” Great J.D. Vance line about the appalling record of Joe Biden and the rest of the uniparty establishment over the last 30+ years.

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This is true—Dems are selling Tim Walz as Homer Simpson, an elite bigot’s idea of what America is like and is supposed to like.

Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️

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The Tim Walz packaging is meant to present a “welcoming” invitation to white men as part of the rainbow coalition: join the DNC, and become merely a joke, not a villain.

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The @ClaremontInst has all the right enemies. I’m honored to be counted among its friends, and profiled as an alumnus:

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Great talk by @MZHemingway at @ISI ’s @collegiatenet conference last night.

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@ToryAnarchist

3 years

The Taliban voted with the U.S. at the UN while Iraq abstained. Not surprising, but ironic nonetheless.

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Iraq abstains.

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It's amazing to have a debate about GOP foreign policy without one question about how the last Republican president's wars worked out.

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3 years

If, as Biden says, only 1 in 160,000 vaccinated persons gets hospitalized for COVID, how can the unvaccinated pose such a threat to them as to justify such drastic, basically dictatorial measures?

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6 months

Good turnout for the award of @ISI ’s Conservative Book of the Year honor to @realchrisrufo , whom I’m introducing here

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For me it was the Convington Catholic kids insult innocent Indian story—feebly sourced yet instantly not just believed but amplified by every outlet from @washingtonpost to @NRO . Zero concern for getting the facts before unleashing a national Two Minutes Hate on high schoolers.

Wilfred Reilly

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2 years

Across all of the prominent narratives that just completely collapsed during the recent "era of declining trust," which one - on either/any side - was the most striking to you? I'd say Jussie Smollett or the Canadian mass Graves, with "HBCU bomb threats" prolly read to drop.

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1 year

Question is whether that new Southern wealth will concentrate in red states’ blue cities and turn the states blue. Tech companies setting up in Austin, which already has San Francisco politics, isn’t necessarily good for Texas or conservatives.

Matthew J. Peterson

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1 year

Read carefully. This is the future.

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The Conservative Mind award at @amconmag ’s 20th-anniversary dinner goes to @realchrisrufo

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From war to abortion, Joe Lieberman was on the side of the culture of death. At @amconmag I offer one of the few negative assessments of his public life:

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4 years

If Trump wants the GOP nomination in 2024, no one is in a position to stop him—and impeachment won’t, either:

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@ToryAnarchist

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No, because NeverTrumpers are ideologues whose think tank, academic, and journalism jobs depend on defending abstractions, not preserving the lives or livelihoods of ordinary Americans. All those disasters might as well have happened to another country for aught they cared.

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If the Republican establishment really wants to defeat Trump, they should try endorsing him.

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5 years

“Nationalism has worked as an antidote to tribalism, whereas multiculturalism risks degenerating into tribalism. Just look at Sweden.” Powerful talk by @paulinaneuding at @yhazony ’s #nationalconservatism conference, about gangs with grenades and attacks on first responders.

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The other lesson of the Covington story ought to be how shameful it is for schools, diocese, and other institutions to apologize pre-emptively—they have internalized a submissive & scapegoating mindset. So have numerous conservative pundits and GOP pols.

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2 years

The minute you’re doing the government’s bidding, you’re an arm of the state” — DeSantis on the social networks and their collaboration with government agencies.

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Even funnier is that she doesn’t understand why the audience laughs at Colbert’s words after she’s just spent a minute delivering pure Team Harris spin. Zero self-awareness.

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

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NEW: Audience starts cracking up after a serious Stephen Colbert tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that CNN “just reports the news as it is.” Remarkable. Colbert: “I know you guys are objective over [at CNN], you just report the news as it is.” Audience: *Laughs hysterically*

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They’re putting all that’s left of their prestige on the line for this. They’re writing off every single conservative or Republican reader except for the dozen NeverTrumpers who inhabit their op-ed pages.

John J. Miller

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BREAKING: Liberal media supports impeachment.

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Biden’s candidacy is entirely about the past. He wants it to recall the Obama years—but Obama’s record without Obama himself is a weak pitch. Rivals define him by his history with busing, the crime bill, his Iraq War vote, and the Clarence Thomas hearings. Biden has no future.

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@ToryAnarchist

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That an international organization dependent on US taxpayer dollars and military personnel would “proof” itself against the American public’s free choice at the ballot box is an insult to democracy.

POLITICO

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NATO hopes to Trump-proof the alliance with new chief Mark Rutte. It could backfire.

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People who claim to fear “dictatorship” openly plot to have the military defy the elected constitutional commander-in-chief. They lack the critical skills to recognize how blatantly undemocratic and anti-constitutional their own views are.

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One person's malignant deep state is another's benevolent technocracy. Celebration parallax stay winning.

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8 years

If you're a Trump voter & you see WaPo's "conservatives" are Michael Gerson, Jennifer Rubin, etc., would you trust anything the paper says?

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

3 years

The Afghan Whigs.

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3 years

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6 years

If liberals really believe America is a fascist, racist state, shouldn’t they be discouraging immigrants from coming here? Who ever heard of a repressive state where refugees were coming in, not trying to get the hell out?

Joe Cirincione

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Firing is too good for Stephen Miller. Make him live in one of the interment camps he is building.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

10 months

A masterpiece turns 70. I write about it for @ubookman

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

6 years

No follow-up on the Covington/Phillips story can omit the role of social-media activists & blue-checkmark pundits in creating a misleading narrative in the first place. Biased opinion drove this story—but what are the odds bias against white kids in MAGA hats will get examined?

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Daniel McCarthy

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4 years

One effect of today’s pantomime sack of Rome will be to limit citizens’ access to legislators & the Capitol all the more. Bad for the public; not exactly good for a representative institution whose approval ratings often dip into single digits, either. Authority drifts elsewhere.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

6 years

Phillips singled this boy out from the crowd—he was just standing there as Phillips turns his way—and stood right in front of him bashing his drum in his face. Phillips later claims *he* was scared—and media uncritically accepts that claim in defiance of the footage. Even now!

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

8 years

The media spent so much energy demonizing Trump voters it lost a sense of why this candidate kept winning all along.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

1 month

This is an excellent way for academic pseudo-scholars to discredit themselves. Trump jokes he’ll improve the country so much Christians will no longer feel a need to vote. Tenured leftists in perpetual panic pretend this means he’s going to cancel elections.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

@ruthbenghiat

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Media: this should be *the* A1 story. I have studied dictatorship for decades and this is it-"you won't have to vote anymore." Trump will never leave office if he wins in November.

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@ToryAnarchist

5 years

Excellent, deep, and sobering report. “The numbers in Iraq are especially stark: Before the American invasion, as many as 1.4 million Christians lived in the country. Today, fewer than 250,000 remain—an 80 percent drop in less than two decades.”

Emma Green

@emmaogreen

5 years

Today, The Atlantic published a piece I have been working on for a long time, about one of the most powerful stories of our time: The decimation of Christianity in the Middle East. This is tragic, on its face. But it's also devastating for democracy. 1/x

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@ToryAnarchist

3 years

The signatories are such a potlatch of crazies who’ve anathematized one another as Commies or fascists just yesterday that it’s hilarious. And *they’re* going to deliver “liberal democracy”? Didn’t half of them try that in Afghanistan? And the other half denounced them.

Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

3 years

Neocons & Noam Chomsky share roots in Trotsky. This is not all that surprising, really.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

Protestant attentiveness to respectability has its admirable side, but it’s also often hypocritical. There’s nothing at all godly about Trump’s enemies. Their respectability is a whitewash.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

3 years

The Afghan War was lost the minute the mission became nation-building. Biden has screwed up everything else, but he's right to follow through on leaving now:

Who lost Afghanistan?

Afghanistan is a disaster not primarily because of Biden but because our leadership class cannot confront uncomfortable truths

thespectator.com

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

2 years

Voters chose Trump over Cheney? Thank God—after all, the Cheney dynasty was one of the best reasons to support Trump. If you don’t want Trump, get rid of the Cheneys, Bushes, and all their ilk first. Trump is the nemesis that arises from the establishment’s hubris.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

6 years

For the life of me I do not understand why evangelicals’ political support for a president who delivers for them politically is supposed to be surprising. The crazy thing is supporting nice guys who don’t deliver.

Jeet Heer

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6 years

Another thing I would've loved Hitchens to have lived to write about is the evangelical embrace of Trump. That would've been such a juicy target. Hard to imagine he'd have resisted it.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

5 years

Capitalism in the 19th century stood in contrast to agrarian society and the ancien regime. In the 20th century, it stood in contrast to Communism. It lacks a defining point of contrast today—the only competing system, Chinese-style managerialism, is itself labeled capitalist.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

3 years

@skprufo @realchrisrufo You both have ten times the courage of the billion-dollar think tanks.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

1 year

@KeenanPeachy I was disabused of this by things like Waco.

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Daniel McCarthy

@ToryAnarchist

4 years

This speaks volumes: “The yuan is particularly sensitive to the election outcome given that analysts view a Biden administration as potentially more moderate ... toward China in the trade war.”

Bloomberg

@business

4 years

China’s yuan is emerging as one of the most sensitive assets to the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections

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