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The idea holding together the conservative movement since the 1960s was called "fusionism." The concept, which always worked better as an organizing principle than a philosophical one, was that freedom and virtue were inextricably linked.
The intellectual right is in the middle of a huge brouhaha, as some prominent right-wing commentators celebrate what they believe is the end of the "conservative consensus" around classical liberalism — free markets, limited government, the sovereignty of the individual and even in some cases free expression.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, says it's reasonable to think the president should be protected from seeing a warship with John McCain's name on it.
Is Joe Biden Hillary Clinton — or George W. Bush? The first, most obvious and literal answer is, he's neither. He's Joe Biden, one of the most known and familiar personalities in American politics.
"Without the ILLEGAL Witch Hunt, my poll numbers, especially because of our historically 'great' economy, would be at 65%," President Trump tweeted last week.
Generational pride is the cheapest form of identity politics.
"Democrats are aggressively pushing late-term abortion, allowing children to be ripped from their mother's womb right up until the moment of birth," President Trump said at a Florida rally earlier this month. "The baby is born and you wrap the baby beautifully and you talk to the mother about the possible execution of the baby."
The most rational response to the news that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to be president is to ask, "Of what?"
Ever since Donald Trump came down that Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy for president, we've heard a great deal about the abuse of norms — constitutional norms, democratic norms, norms of decency, all kinds of norms.
One of the hardest lessons for young, idealistic and educated people to learn when they come to Washington — and some never learn it — is that nobody is running things.
In the 1920 presidential election, Warren Harding won in a landslide by promising a "Return to Normalcy." Today's Democrats would be wise to make that same pledge for 2020. They probably won't, however, which is why President Trump might get re-elected.
It has "invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing," the philosopher and economist Friedrich Hayek famously wrote.
The National Rifle Association has big troubles. It's wildly in debt.
So Don McGahn is in the president's crosshairs. Whose side are you on?
"Do you think this is impeachable?" Chuck Todd, host of "Meet the Press," asked Rep. Jerrold Nadler about the findings in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but we live in a time when everything is supposed to be black and white.
President Trump is looking into giving a free trip to San Francisco, New Orleans or other great American cities to tens of thousands of refugees from Central America. All so he can own the libs.
If I told you there was a movement to create a navy or air force, you might respond, "Don't we already have those?"
Kirstjen Nielsen is off the island. The embattled, beleaguered and apparently overwhelmed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was reportedly fired before she could quit.
The knives are out for Joe Biden.
