What (the) Right Looks Like

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion column by Marian Tupy, a CATO Institute fellow and founder of its Human Progress program, which is apparently an expanded version of his book Superabundance: the Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing. CATO is a libertarian think tank that promotes deregulation and markets free of any government constraints, so it's no...

Trump has been looting the state since his second term began. Crypto coin schemes. Frivolous lawsuits settled as a way to pay for regulatory relief. Pay to play pardons. Now he's jumped the shark with his new J6 slush fund - almost two billion dollars for cronies, including J6 insurrectionists. Yes, he wants to pay people who beat cops with flagpoles and treat them as victims of law fare because t...

US Government debt just exceeded 39 trillion dollars, more and 100% of America's GDP. Conservatives make a lot of noise about this...until they take power. Now that they control all three branches of government they seem to be on a mission to borrow as much money as possible for things like mass deportation and unnecessary war in the Middle East while cutting funds for health care, child nutrition...

The other day I posted a video criticizing Karl Rove's advice to both Democrats and Republicans, making the point that both should ignore him. I think the midterm elections this year, and the 2028 Presidential election, will be about one thing only: Donald Trump, his policies, his lies and corruption and the US he and his supporters want to create. An acquaintance responded to a clip posted on Fac...

If you're wondering what the right looks like - that is, how they see the world as it is and what they want it to look like instead, What (the) Right Looks Like might interest you. In this second episode I start with Karl Rove's advice to both Democrats and Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms using their own words, starting this week with Karl Rove. TLDR: Democrats should move to the center...

In March 1945, the US Army distributed a discussion guide for leaders covering fascism, including whether it existed or could exist in the US. These guides were used by leaders in the field to inform soldiers and help them understand why they were fighting. In this episode, the first in a series, I read the guide and comment on parallels with American politics today. Here's a link to the Army Fact...