Conservative: Trump Derangement Boosts the Left
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Derangement → boost → Left
The “effort by the liberal establishment to undo populism” will gain new life if “Democrats regain control” of Congress,” argues UnHerd’s Alicia Nieves.
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Nieves → undo → Congress
The “Democratic establishment” is in “panic” that the “MAGA revolution” may “become an enduring force in American politics that could outlast Trump himself.”
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that → become → Trump
President Trump’s “personality made it easy to cast him as a villain,” but that “narrative failed to stop his movement” as Trump has “institutionalized his populist revolt.”
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Trump → make → revolt
Now the Dem establishment is so “consumed with recovering its former authority” by killing MAGA that it’s “overlooking the socialist insurgency growing within its own party” — even as the left has “lost its grasp on political reality,” and “become incapable of formulating a convincing strategy for returning to power through democratic means.
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left → consume → means
Culture critic: Dems Own Transgender Lunacy
“Transgenderism has become the tar baby for the Democrats: a thing they can’t let go, can’t help promoting and defending even when it costs them dearly,” muses Hadley Arkes at The Wall Street Journal.
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Arkes → own → Journal
The Biden administration “sought to sweep away any barriers in federal policy to the promotion of transgenderism,” while the Trump team has worked “to counter and reverse these policies.”
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team → seek → policies
“Despite widespread public disapproval” of promoting “transgenderism in all of its forms,” Dems still fight even basic efforts “to scale it back” — so if they gain control of Congress, they’ll surely “move at once against” every Trump move diminishing federal support for transgenderism.
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they → promote → transgenderism
“No power will overcome the willingness of the Democrats to fall on their swords on this issue.”
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power → overcome → issue
From the right: The Wrong Choice To Fight Inflation
Electing Democrats to tackle affordability “would be like making a pyromaniac fire marshal,” warns The Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen, since “most of the higher prices Americans are paying today are a hangover from the last time Democrats controlled the levers of power.”
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Democrats → fight → power
Aiming to “end fossil fuel,” their regulatory assault slashed drilling rigs to “about half the 2018 peak” — an ongoing disruption that means “higher, not lower, prices at the pump.”
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that → aim → pump
And trillions in progressive spending served as the “original sin” that “overstimulated this economy” and “poured kerosene on the fire” of inflation.
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that → serve → inflation
Even now, Dem candidates push a “miasma of spending” on schemes like “Medicare-for-all.”
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candidates → push → all
They “still hate fossil fuels and love government spending — which is a sure path to more inflation, not less.”
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which → hate → inflation
Speech patrol: China Bullies Soccer Star
After “French football star Kylian Mbappé” in passing referred to Mao as “a Chinese dictator,” China’s state broadcaster “has ended all broadcasts of [premier Spanish soccer league] La Liga matches and removed all content featuring Mbappé,” citing a “zero-tolerance policy towards any words or actions that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people,” marvels Spiked’s Hugo Timms.
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Timms → bully → people
As a result, Mbappé has been obliged to “kowtow” and apologize in the mode of a Maoist “struggle session” by “endorsing one of the central mythologies of the CCP — namely, that Mao was some kind of benevolent and progressive leader.”
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Mao → oblige → leader
Beware: If we can’t call a dictator a dictator, “then the struggle for liberty is already lost.
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struggle → beware → liberty
Iconoclast: Hate Drives Progressivism
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Hate → drive → Progressivism
“Progressivism is not only a set of positions but a mindset,” observes Lionel Shriver at The New Criterion: “A temperament, a disposition.
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Shriver → observe → Criterion
Progs’ “driving emotions” are “negative,” seeking “less to realize a Shangri-la than to destroy what, and more particularly whom, they revile.”
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they → drive → what
Though “often accused of credulous optimism about human nature,” they operate in a mood that is “typically hostile, resentful, vengeful, accusatory, aggressive if not murderous, vituperative and furious.”
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that → accuse → mood
“Obsessed with the concept of power, and therefore obsessed with attaining it,” the movement “has a collective case of oppositional-defiance disorder” in which “the indignation, the self-righteousness, the intoxicating rage are the point, in the service of which cause is secondary if not irrelevant.”
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cause → obsess → which
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