A Moderate Solution

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”  Guest Post by Centrist McModerate These are tumultuous times in our two-party system. The side currently in charge is engaged in a nakedly authoritarian power grab that seeks to bend society to its will. Meanwhile, the side out of power proposes that the side […]

The New York Times Runs Sympathetic Piece on Conservative Student Who Sent Douchey Email to Thousands of People

Move over, leftist college kids who’ve been beaten, arrested, and threatened with deportation. The New York Times is here to tell you that the real persecuted students are vocal conservatives whose schools decline to discipline them for douchey behavior. On Wednesday, the paper ran a non-story by reporter Jeremy Peters about the “plight” of Brown […]

The Problem With ‘Big Tent’ Politics

We hear it from Democratic strategists and centrist pundits all the time. “Democrats need to have a big tent.” Typically, this means Democratic candidates should appeal to moderates and the seven remaining Republican voters who don’t support Donald Trump. And indeed, that was what Kamala Harris did in her abbreviated presidential run. She campaigned with Liz […]

Democratic Congressman Under Indictment Says Abrego Garcia Case ‘Is Not the Right Issue to Talk About Due Process’

The Bulwark published a scoop on Wednesday that’s just the latest exhibition of cowardice by Democratic congressional “leadership.” Privately, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has reportedly discouraged Democratic lawmakers from making further trips to El Salvador to bring attention to the incarceration of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more than 200 others Trump deported there without […]

The Anti-Defamation League Joins Trump’s Defamation Crusade Against Jailed Palestine Protesters

In case you were still under the impression that the Anti-Defamation League is a civil rights organization, let me direct your attention to some deranged comments its director made on Tuesday. Jonathan Greenblatt appeared on CNN, where he was asked about the Trump regime arresting and jailing international students for criticizing Israel. (I still can’t […]

Gavin Newsom Takes the Coward’s Way Out

There’s a morally bankrupt kind of thinking that’s taken hold among some centrists and centrist Democrats regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man Trump disappeared to an El Salvador gulag without due process. Trump won in part on the issue of immigration, the thinking goes, and therefore Democrats must do everything possible to look tough on […]