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In his podcast in early September, Raheem Kassam expanded on the topic we covered last time regarding political action and the failures of the Republican Conservative Industrial Complex. Along with his sidekick at the…
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A few notes to open this installment. Three recent observations were brought to my attention about this new series of articles. First, that while I include opinion articles on the list of things that…
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In this article posted a few days ago, I suggested it might be time to shut down 90 percent of the Republican Conservative Industrial Complex (RCIC) for a couple of years and instead put…
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Fans of the War Room know the phrases: “Signal, not noise.” “Action action action.” “Human agency.” Congratulations are in order for Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast: It has surpassed the 100 million mark in…
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The answer is–NO, they do not. Political power is manifested in a number of ways, but the biggest in a democratic republic is the ability to get governing majorities elected that support your policies….
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Only a small minority of our elected officials support policies that would alleviate the long list of ways citizens suffer due to awful political leadership. Whether it is crime in cities such as Chicago,…
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Yesterday a new series of articles was started here at Dispatches. Here is a preview of some of the topics that will be addressed in upcoming posts. The purpose of them will be to…
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We have a structural problem in Republican and conservative politics, and it is not just in Illinois—it is in the entire country. Donors continue to increase their giving every year to Republican and conservative…
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Again, from the January 2015 archive: An old saying in politics is that nothing moves unless it’s pushed. Among other things, big government must be downsized, and that alone is going to require new…
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Continuing the topic from the last article: Many older conservatives remember the good old days of the “Reagan Revolution.” I wish we could bring Ronald Reagan back so he can tell us what he…
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Returning to the series from the January 2015 archive: The notion that you have to have good people in politics — including party politics — is yet another simple and obvious thing that conservatives in America…
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All of this series so far has been from January 2015–here’s the next one: In my last article I ran this quote from political philosophy professor Harry Jaffa: [T]he salvation of the Republican Party,…
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Again, from the 2015 archive: A few days ago, two political philosophy professors whose work I studied in college, died on the same day. Both lived long lives, Walter Berns was 95, and Harry…
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From the 2015 archive: The United States Military used an updated “counterinsurgency manual” with success during the troop surge in Iraq 2007. The parallel for domestic grassroots politics is obvious — even the word “counterinsurgency”…
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Again, from the 2015 archive: What does your local Republican Party organization do? For people on the outside of politics, their understanding of what happens on the inside on a daily basis can be…
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