Source: Semafor
by David Weigel

“Every political coalition falls apart eventually, unless you’re running the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan or something. Barack Obama’s 2008 win led Democrats into some dizzy daydreams about a ‘permanent’ majority that Republicans could only temporarily defeat. ‘Obama doesn’t need right-leaning whites anymore,’ Ron Brownstein wrote in 2013, after Democrats won a second presidential election with a minority of white voters but a supermajority of non-whites. For a long time, both parties wondered if Trump had built something sturdier than that. … But neither theory of the electorate worked without voters who believed their vote was protecting their way of life – culture and costs.” (11/11/26)

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/11/2026/how-the-maga-map-cracked

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is claiming that anyone who opposes Trump’s warmongering hates ‘the troops’. ‘If you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or NAB and Nicolas Maduro, you’re taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished,’ Hegseth told the press on Monday. If you’re too young to remember 2003, this was the line they used the last time the White House started an unwinnable war in the middle east. If you hate the war, you hate The Troops. And we all know you’re not allowed to hate The Troops. You MUST love the imperial stormtroopers. It’s such shitbrained war propaganda. Yes, absolutely fuck the war. Absolutely fuck every single person who chose to enter into this ridiculously unprovoked war of aggression. And hey, fuck The Troops too while we’re at it.” (11/12/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/11/12/screw-the-troops-and-other-notes/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“The Social Security Act was instituted in 1935 as the cornerstone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Although many changes in the Social Security program have taken place over the years, the nature of Social Security has not changed. … the nature of Social Security remains that of an intergenerational, income-transfer, wealth-redistribution welfare program that takes money from those who work and gives it to those who don’t.” (11/11/26)

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-nature-of-social-security-has-not-changed/

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“When speaking of Democratic Party politicians, the answer to the question in the title is very easy: they are just pure evil. Some of them, yes, do fall into the other categories as well, but the people who advocate and urge evil (more on that in a moment) are evil. And every Democrat politician supports incredibly, vile, evil things. But when we are talking about the various people who vote for the Democrats, the motives and rationales are not always so uncomplicated. I base this article on a recent Breitbart headline: ‘Democrat Who Said Trump Supporters Belong in Concentration Camps on Track to Win North Caroline House Seat’. This is, of course, appalling, horrifying, revolting, and, yes, pure, 100% evil. There is no other word for it.” (11/11/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/11/11/are-they-ignorant-selfish-apatheticor-just-plain-evil-n2686263

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Adam Weinstein

“It is Veterans Day again, which means that, alongside the free red, white, and blue pancake specials and complimentary coffees, Americans will post tributes honoring the ultimate sacrifice of our soldiers. Just as predictably, on Memorial Day, veterans will receive well-intentioned messages thanking them for their service. Of course, Memorial Day honors those who died while serving in the U.S. military, whereas Veterans Day recognizes all who have served. This confusion is hardly something to get worked up about in itself. But it is symptomatic of something more consequential: a nation detached from its military and the wars it fights.” (11/11/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/forever-war-veterans-day/

Source: Common Dreams
by Martin Burns

“The US House of Representatives on Tuesday night, with a 211 to 204 margin, voted to refer the impeachment charges against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to a committee, allowing Republicans to slow the process so that the current Congress would not be able to take them up. There are procedural options that would allow impeachment to be brought up again, but these are very unlikely. The political reality is that Hegseth will continue as Defense Secretary for the near future. Indeed, the House’s failure to impeach Hegseth only builds his political capital with President Donald Trump. As expected, House Republicans closed ranks behind Hegseth. What was not expected was that 11 House Democrats failed to show up to vote. If you do the simple arithmetic, it is clear that had the Democrats showed up the House would have been able to consider the impeachment charges against Hegseth.” (11/11/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/hakeem-jeffries-hegseth-impeachment-failure