The Reactionary Containment in the 2024 Election
The “trads” will help in electing Trump as president, but they will have no real power because their beliefs are threatening to the secularism of the regime.
The “trads” will help in electing Trump as president, but they will have no real power because their beliefs are threatening to the secularism of the regime.
In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.
With Kamala Harris announcing she is open to imposing “reparations for slavery” if elected president, it is time to take a hard look at the injustice that would be part of this scheme. There is no way to fashion a just outcome out of it.
Anthony Blinken‘s term as US Secretary of State will be ending, although not soon enough.
In his failed 1896 presidential campaign, inflationist William Jennings Bryan declared that he would “not crucify mankind on a cross of gold.” But at least even Bryan favored silver money. Today‘s political candidates will crucify us on a cross of paper.
The Old Right was a principled band of intellectuals and activists, who fought the “industrial regimentation” of the New Deal. They loathed tariffs and saw protectionism as a species of socialist planning.
As with any other government-controlled institution, a high level of public skepticism about elections is healthy.