Because the administration has no real policy goals it cannot fail. It also cannot succeed.
01.03.2026 13:22
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Because the administration has no real policy goals it cannot fail. It also cannot succeed.
Perfect example of how nothing is ever a real position. Everything is a little commentary about messaging and strategy that way you never have to take a real stand on anything meaningful.
I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Neglected to render unto Caesar.
Of all the recent political crazes “anti wokeness” is distinguished by a combination of utter failure and an inability of its leaders to understand why they failed.
Terrible ad content for sure. Good analytical consideration though. Who was wrong and why is one of the most important thing a political pundit can grasp
Indeed containment broke on this kind of thing on the right in 2017 at the latest
At some point we are all going to have to admit that the left did not make the right try to deport political opponents.
It is absurd though that didn’t stop figures like Ben Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson from embracing a vision of Anglo Saxon racial purity. The enduring power of bad ideas.
Lannister coded policy
My column this week. Alabamians often dismiss the bile that comes out of some of our leaders' mouths as performative, or grimly funny. Don't do that with Tommy Tuberville's recent threats against Muslims. He's already signaled that he views many Alabamians as dangers, simply for who they are.
WELKER: Why talk to Ghislaine Maxwell & not survivors?
BLANCHE: What you just said is completely false. We'll talk to any survivor any time
W: But have you talked to them?
B: Of course! Yes! First of all they have to want to speak with us. I spoke to a victims rights group as recently as Thursday
Also famously true of Oregon
Absolutely. MLK was a nerd and a middle class guy who’d never known the full brunt of Jim Crow. But of course Buckley was himself a spoiled son of privilege who grew up with segregation parents and with black servants.
This is what proto Confederates said about abolitionists. Bill Buckley basically said MLK Jr was an oversensitive woke academic
An established beat no less. The former holder of that position is over at the Atlantic
The @nytimes.com spent weeks on that story because their leadership fundamentally agreed with Chris Rufo that it was insulting that a Black woman led Harvard. We're all supposed to pretend that's not obviously the case, but c'mon. Let's not be stupider than we have to be.
The guy who goes for “coup attempt” in term one wasn’t going to calm down when he’s term limited. The crazy was over determined.
As Justice Marshal said it’s absurd for the legal system to pretend history didn’t happen. And he would know.
many such cases
So we got “clash of civilizations” meets “sex is for the ladies” Pat, the clue is “read too much Nietzsche”
So much energy over the past decades was spent psychoanalyzing young progressives. Comparatively very little attention was paid to young conservatives despite the remarkable warning that was Charlottesville
It’s all very late life Huntington
Maybe an extreme version of solidarity. Vice signaling to indicate that they are completely opposed to any efforts at persuasion
Mandatory racial integration in housing. Americans would faint
Posting leads the Steve Sailer and Sailer to madness
I always thought it was interesting that we had a decade long freakout over the political proclivities of educators and no one bats an eye at the politics of the people with a bunch of guns and stuff.
A real egg-nor-a-moose
This. This is the answer.
Heinlein
