Political conservatism, say its critics, is less a rational movement to shape the future than an irrational impulse to flee the present. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. famously called it “the politics of nostalgia.” In reality, the temptation to romanticize the past is evident across the ideological spectrum. Politicians, activists, and intellectuals often wax nostalgic about...
The Biden Administration and progressive thought leaders, such as Paul Krugman and even Rob Schofield, from N.C. Policy Watch, have been bending over backward at the beginning of 2022 to defend the administration’s economic record and downplay the significance of skyrocketing inflation. And it’s no wonder — President Biden is receiving full blame for the...
A lot of this angst is fueled by a truth many Americans have or should have known all along – the government is ill-equipped to solve most problems in society.
John Hancock is known for his sizeable signature etched on the Declaration of Independence. Nearly 250 years removed from his signing, almost everybody has been asked to offer their “John Hancock” on a document at some point in their life. It might be a myth that Hancock said, “There, King George will be able to...
About 41% of voters in union households picked Trump this year. They went 40% for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and 39% for John McCain. Reagan won 44% in 1980 and 46% in 1984.
The times have a fin de siècle feel for small-government conservatives. The Republican Party is now “owned” by Donald Trump who, in his first year, increased government expenditures by 86% over the last budget proposed by George W. Bush in 2008. The self-professed “king of debt” requested an additional $300 billion for his second year, leading to an...
Letting politicians choose their voters rather than letting voters choose their political representatives is incompatible with basic principles of conservative governance.
It’s bad manners, and poisonous to political discourse, to question other people’s faith just because they disagree with you on an issue.
In the modern era, the party not in the White House has almost always gained seats in the North Carolina legislature in midterm elections.
During the Bush presidency, Republicans were more supportive of free-trade agreements than Democrats were. The opposite was true during the Obama presidency.
Learning about why others disagree with you is hardly an impediment to achieving political victories. Nor is learning how to disagree without being an obnoxious jackass.
