The Infowars star has no right to say anything through Facebook or YouTube — which is seriously illiberal and more threatening than anything he says.
By Daniel McCarthy
History somehow isn’t moving toward its predetermined end, and this has driven Western liberals completely mad. The theatrical overreaction to Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is just the latest proof. Before the Trump-Putin summit, pundits warned that Trump might recognise Crimea as Russian territory. He did nothing of the sort. […]
By Daniel McCarthy
What does the American left do when a year of hyperbole about Russian subversion and full-blown fascism in the White House fails to make the nation repent for electing Donald Trump? After eighteen unrelenting months of Red Scare and Brown Scare, President Trump’s approval numbers were higher than ever. What do the people who hate […]
By Daniel McCarthy
Yesterday was another bad day for the “libertarian moment” and for Sen. Rand Paul in particular. The candidate Paul endorsed and campaigned for in Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial primary, state delegate Nick Freitas, lost to Corey Stewart, a pro-Trump candidate controversial for his defense of Confederate monuments, among other things. Further south, a Republican congressman of […]
By Daniel McCarthy
The president is showing loyalty to conservatives who believe he was wrongfully prosecuted and punished.
By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump is following through on his threat—or promise, as his voters see it—to impose steep tariffs on foreign goods in the name of supporting American industry, starting with levies of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium imports. Allies and neighbors that had been granted temporary exemptions are now set […]
By Daniel McCarthy
As the mid-terms approach, the Democrats are divided and dwindling. The GOP’s hand is getting stronger.
By Daniel McCarthy
How the Attorney General has used his isolation to his advantage.
By Daniel McCarthy
John McCain is a victim of hypocrisy. His allies in Washington and admirers in the national media praise him as the conscience of the nation, even as they betray him in his last desperate battle against the normalisation of torture. After a White House communications staffer, Kelly Sadler, joked that McCain’s views don’t matter because […]
By Daniel McCarthy
America has a long history of almost getting dragged into other people’s wars. Soon after the founding of the country, partisans of revolutionary France and counter-revolutionary Britain urged the US to intervene in Europe. A generation later, British liberals tried to enlist America in a partnership against the reactionary powers that rose in the wake […]
By Daniel McCarthy
The Arizona Senator could have been a Donald Trump-type figure. But he never was.
By Daniel McCarthy
On his new song, Yeezus claims he could be the next occupant of the White House – here’s how he would do it
By Daniel McCarthy
Would Trump without John Kelly be any different from Trump with John Kelly?
By Daniel McCarthy
