Category: Socialism
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The progressive project: repeal the Constitution
and abolish the Supreme Court! The real danger to our democratic republic comes not so much from ragtag Proud Boys or tiki torchers as from the education and law schools of our more prestigious universities, where progressive government policy is incubated. It’s all there in an opinion piece that would be considered over the top…
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Democrats not responsible for their failures?
Progressive editor blames stupid voters! Paul Fanlund should get out more — like out of the Madison bubble. Put on your anthropologist’s pith helmet, travel up to Bonduel, say, buy a round at the local tavern, then shut up and listen. The editor of The Capital Times kvetches that he referenced Trump at “at a…
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Coming to a car dealership near you
A progressive temper tantrum. White House press secretary Jen Psaki is not the only one hacking up a fur ball this morning over Joe Manchin’s apostasy. (The Dispatch reports Manchin refused to take a call from the White House after dropping his bunker buster on Fox News Sunday.) Here’s a sampling of New York Times…
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Karen, don’t have a cow!
Rap my knuckles, will you! Early in the 2020 presidential campaign, Madison progressives had a schoolyard crush on Elizabeth Warren. Appeared with Tammy Baldwin here in town at one of Lindsay Lee’s coffee shops. The rest of the country? Meh. Sen. Warren’s candidacy went nowhere because — get your hackles up, my progressive … acquaintances…
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What if Pete Buttigieg had been elected President?
Mind if we take our leave? Like we used to do in the 1950s for Sky King and Mighty Mouse, the indentured servants here at Stately Blaska Manor lay belly down on the threadbare carpet to watch Tucker Carlson on the b&w Philco. It’s a guilty pleasure. Doesn’t mean they always agree with the opinionator.…
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Beware of Democrats teaching civics
Take action against ‘action civics’ We are not surprised that “Wisconsin gets an F in civics and history,” in the words of a headline in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal. But the op ed never really explains why, except that standards are too vague. Um, guys, so is your essay. (See me after class.) The gray…