Pray this is the first. "The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government. People seem to feel that they have been taxed, regulated, bossed around and intimidated by left-of-center politicians for decades — but the results are bad and have been getting worse." I mean, when Our Intellectual Betters have lost Fareed Zakaria! "On the other side, if Democrats do not learn some hard lessons from the poor governance in many blue cities and states, they will be seen as defending cultural elites, woke ideology and bloated, inefficient government. That might be a formula for permanent minority status."
Why do we accept government by an invalid? I don't want to be ruled over by anybody. What the hell is self-governance anyway if you can't trust the people to figure out this democracy thing themselves? Normal voters are tired of liberal America’s condescension and elitism. Democrats spent the year trying to convince people they didn’t realize how good they had it. The Democratic Party Deserves Its Image as a Party of War.
Biden is a disgrace. "Everyone in America should be grateful that this man will not serve a second term." The thoughtless three-hour delay of the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover is simply emblematic of his reign. Goodbye. "Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will still be the one-term president responsible for Donald Trump's return to the White House."
Practically? "Practically every terrible idea eating away at America’s soul originated with some academician whose philosophy gelled while writing his PhD dissertation."
Jimmy Carter. "How far have we declined when the president of the United States can't pay for coffee?" R.I.P.
Buckwheat. "She did not even lie well. Check out the blinking and the stuttering and stammering. She is not, and will never be, a smidgen good at her job." Democrats are sort of cute when they’re out of power.
A city by the sea does not have enough water. The Democrats for which Californians have cast votes for decades have failed you. Anybody wondering why “America First” helped get Mr. Trump elected?
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes resumes.
1. Bet on emergence. "In the long run culture changes via selection, as some variants promote evolutionary success more than others."
2. Indeed. "It’s time we stopped pretending that there are no trade-offs."
3. Rockford's poverty. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”
4. Expertise. "You need no further proof that government messes up everything it touches than to look at what they did to freaking GAS canisters."
5. Intellectuals. "Modernism, like Leninism, wished to bully rather than seduce the community into a better future."
7. Chesterton's Presidential Electors. "Nearly none of the world’s democratic systems existed in 1804. That stability, in and of itself, counsels against discarding the presidential election system for any but the most compelling of reasons."
8. Perhaps. "Last time we had a 'government shutdown,' voters were on to it. They saw that government continued unabated, for better and worse, and understood that government shutdown hysteria is just Democratic Party propaganda." No, it's Official Washington's standard procedure.
9. No, Common Dreams, it's an ugly lie. "At the heart of contemporary liberalism lies a seductive myth: that the right combination of charismatic leadership, technocratic competence, and moderate politics can save democracy from its enemies while avoiding fundamental social transformation."
10. Disneyland, Mar-a-Lago, and the road to Hell. "The mistake people often make is to equate 'cooperative' activity with 'state provision,' but club-good solutions, with small groups organizing and funding roads, is actually the normal solution in Scandinavia."
13. Good. "Misinformation researchers are beginning to question the utility of their field."
14. For better, or for worse? "The largest voting bloc in the United States is almost always voter-eligible nonvoters."
15. Definitely good. "Limiting coffee intake to the morning, it turns out, may be best." The usual "study shows" caveats apply.
16. It's called prosperity. "China lost more manufacturing jobs than we did."
17. Confession is good for the soul. "Assuming the victors of an election are uniformly evil or too dumb to agree with your politics is the height of arrogance and demonstrably false."
18. Reality bats after Barack Obama, and the color revolution he ran. "I will admit that I wasn’t sure I’d ever see him face the consequences of his own arrogance, obsession with personal power, and efforts at vanquishing the exceptionalism that makes this country different from every other one."
19. Impossible. "Garland Urged to 'Show Any Smattering of Spine.'"
20. Bill Maher studies reality. "Better schools. Don't graduate kids who don't know anything and have no skills. More dads. And the drug war. Those are the practical things, and that's not what they care about talking about."
21. The simpler, the harder. "You don’t go in a person’s home unless invited."
23. A starving leftist did not write this. "It is the fate of a capitalist to view nonconsumption as a societal malady rather than a sign of good health. The truth is those that consume less have other more nourishing and sustainable ways to fill their souls."
24. Particularly in Chicago. "Your average NFL coach gets more probing questions on Sunday afternoon after the game than Fauci got from the news media while millions were becoming ill and hundreds of thousands were dying."
25. Take an education and play well on Sunday. "The Packers don't hold the NFC's last playoff seed because they lack talent to be higher in the pecking order."
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