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A kill shot against democracy that missed : by John Young

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Call it “system fail” for those who wish our system will fail. In the 1962 thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” a high-profile figure is programmed as an assassin in a bid to overthrow the U.S. government. In more recent times, someone at the dangerously power-drunk Federalist Society saw this and blurted, “Capital idea!” And so, in […]

Trump the victim? Can you count to 10?

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by John Young A recent poll finds only two of 10 Republicans think Donald Trump should be charged with the crimes for which he was indicted in Florida. It’s all political, they say, all Joe Biden’s doing. They don’t dare say that a grand jury authorized it, and 31 criminal charges, as with his criminal […]

He should pay for defiling our property — by John Young

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We have been remodeling our property. The ketchup stains are gone. The glass shards at the Capitol, too. The former tenant who’s given a bad name to scoundrels everywhere has been replaced by someone who honors the place with his demeanor and sense of history. We Americans can feel good about the changes on the […]

Next dire culture-war threat: wrestlers without legs

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By John Young “A toast — to the Texas Legislature.” The Republican strategists lifted their cocktails high. What a session — a brutal blitzkrieg against a helplessly microscopic segment of constituents who barely have a voice: transexuals. Mass shootings? A fatally flawed electric grid? Schools gasping for funding? Texas Republicans could, in all good conscience, […]

DeSantis’ daredevil (and dumb) canyon jump

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By John Young Vindictive. Vengeful. Vituperative. Vitriolic. Vainglorious. Venal. Volatile. That’s just from the V section for Ron DeSantis. Not “visionary.” Not “virtuous.” Just mean. Tragically, his style of spite sells to some in the age of Trump. As New York Times columnist (and Reagan conservative) Bret Stephens quips, “It takes a creep to beat […]