“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)
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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“President Donald Trump, after threatening for weeks to bring the ‘hammer’ down on Iran, said Monday that a U.S. escalation is ‘unlikely’ and the war is ‘effectively over’ militarily. Antiwar voices breathed sighs of relief, and oil prices continued to plunge amid surging hopes of lasting peace. But there’s a big problem. Trump also says he’ll maintain America’s crushing economic pressure campaign against Tehran, including the naval blockade on Iranian ports. Not only is the blockade itself an act of war under international law, but the campaign makes a resumption of all-out hostilities more likely, regardless of the president’s intentions, experts told The American Conservative.” (11/11/26)
“A faculty group calling itself ‘Uncivil’ recently criticized the people leading civility and pluralism programs that encourage college students to engage constructively across lines of difference on campus. I’m one of those program leaders. As the founder of the nation’s largest interfaith organization, Interfaith America, I’ve visited over 200 college campuses promoting pluralism—the conviction that people with different identities and divergent ideologies can respect one another, build relationships, and cooperate for the common good. The students we serve span the ideological spectrum. They might disagree profoundly about the Middle East, abortion, and religion, but they can still agree to work alongside people whose convictions differ from their own.” (11/11/26)
“There was an orderly process for admitting immigrants at Ellis Island. But immigrants who showed up at Ellis Island did not need an invitation—or permission—to do so. All they needed was a ticket on a ship going to New York City. … The arrival of[Stephen] Miller’s ancestors in the United States is not an example of aspiring immigrants complying with a cumbrous and Kafkaesque body of immigration regulation; it is an example of something close to the kind of extremely permissive immigration policy advanced in our time by certain libertarians …. I myself favor a more restrictive immigration policy than the one that was in place when Miller’s antecedents passed through Ellis Island, one that also is in some ways more restrictive than current practice and in some ways more liberal.” (11/11/26)
