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This week's @TheFP column: How the New Right Failed:
thefp.com/p/how-the-new-righ…
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As a Christian, I'll vote for a third-party candidate. I have decided that this person with a 100% chance of losing is morally superior than the others — a reputation based solely off of whichever stories have managed to make the news.
Will this vote bring about changes I'd like for myself and my neighbor? No. Will it make me feel good? Not after a couple of weeks. But will I at least help to change our entrenched two-party system? Also no.
I hope the lesson we all take from this is that everyone should focus on making energy drastically cheaper.
our decade long national nightmare has ended; we can finally return to stoking ethnic resentment and prosecuting Catholic organizations
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A few quick thoughts.
1. The most important issues were Iran and corruption.
The corruption one is less discussed but it is ultimately more important. Corruption was guaranteed to torpedo both the populist coalition Trump built and the nationalist program he ran on.
For instance, you can look at California, which despite years of Democrat rule, continues to be a place where families prosper and good governance is upheld.
You can watch academics and lawyers debate politics to get a sense of the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Trump didn’t kill the pro-life movement. They were the dog that caught the car. Absolutely zero idea of how to persuade voters.
We can close to avoid further tedium, but I don’t think it makes sense to introduce pope on/pope off, in the way that Weigel introduced that absurd this is the pope, this is semi-pope, etc with an encyclical long ago.