Mad As Hell/Mad As A Hatter

 

Friends, the lefties were out in force today, demanding that Trump and Musk keep their "hands off"...pretty much everything.  The demonstrations had no thematic focus, except for TDS, but that's hardly a problem.  TDS has become the central organizing principle of so many people's lives these days.  I reckon most of them are Democratic Party activists and/or geriatric white liberals who watch CNN or MSNBC all day.  Assuming they remain the "face" of the Dems and the resistance to Trump, we have little to worry about.  On the off chance that the economy tanks, however, you better believe that these wackos will be joined by plenty of centrists and swing voters, at least in the short term.  We would be foolish to dismiss the political relevance of these protests altogether, therefore.  The Left can and will become a bonafide threat to the GOP/conservative/Trump agenda, if we aren't careful.  We had a chance to strangle the legacy media by denying it access to the president, and by starving it of advertising dollars based on our irresistible political/cultural momentum.  We didn't do either.  Thus, the Left has been able to suck in more than enough political oxygen to keep its hopes alive.  In the near term, of course, they have precious little ability to accomplish anything in D.C., except by judicial obstructionism.  What they may be able to do, however, by battering away at Trump and Musk's popularity, is scare enough GOP Senators and Congressmen into defecting from Trumpism that further progress on DJT's agenda becomes impossible.  The best way we can prevent this from happening is to 1) deliver the goods on the policy front and keep the economy strong, and 2) discredit the "resistance" as a bunch of violent cranks.  It remains to be seen whether we succeed on either point.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/05/thousands-of-protesters-gather-for-hands-off-rallies-across-u-s/ 

Liberation Day?

 

Friends, the reciprocal tariffs we were promised have arrived, and, in the short term, the markets don't seem to like them much.  That was predictable.  Trump is upending the whole international trading system, which has long been based on, and taken for granted, American gullibility and stupidity, and such a sea change will certainly inconvenience and even terrify some.  The long-term impact of tariffs, and even whether many of these tariffs will endure for the long-term, is hard to predict.  What wasn't hard to predict is the panic that many Democrats and leftists are currently feeling, which mirrors their sense that America is but inches from totalitarianism.  My big fear is not that tariffs will wreck the economy, but that Trump haters will wreck the economy by selling all their stocks and refusing to purchase any consumer goods.  Their economic pessimism may be as delusional as their political predilections, but even delusions can become self-fulfilling prophecies.  In any case, I wouldn't lose hope just yet.  The U.S. economy, and the world economy, can boast a lot of fundamental strengths, and those fundamentals may yet carry the day.  And, if they don't, any recession may be brief or shallow.  There's no doubt, however, that Trump has taken a big risk by imposing these sweeping tariffs.  And I say that as someone who is broadly sympathetic to the idea of reciprocal tariffs, and who believes that we ought, as a nation, to have taken these steps a long time ago.  The simple fact is, though, that just because Trump is in the right does not mean that his gambit will work as intended, especially when so many powerful people are determined to make sure that it doesn't.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1g63x7q8o 

 

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/the-day-trumps-tariff-threats-turned-into-a-harsh-reality-for-ceos-and-investors-f0e58ad3 

Split Decision

 

Friends, the GOP and the dastardly Dems fought each other to a draw last night, as the Dems won the big State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, but Republicans won two House special elections in Florida, plus a referendum to require photo ID in future Wisconsin elections.  All in all, not a terrible showing.  The talking heads are trying to blame Elon Musk for the failure of Brad Schimel to win his Wisconsin race, but maybe he's just a bad candidate, or maybe he should have leaned into Musk's support instead of away from it, or maybe the Dems cheated more lavishly than ever.  Who knows.  Anyway, our House majority is now just a bit more robust than it was before, and that may be the biggest takeaway of all, because we need the House to produce some RESULTS...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/01/trump-challenged-democrats-win-wisconsin-republicans-slip-florida/82702615007/

In somewhat related news, the media is celebrating declining Tesla sales and blaming Musk for his political activism.  Well, it's true that many lefties are turning away from Tesla for essentially (asinine) political reasons, but isn't that proof that Elon is even more of a patriot than we thought he was?  I mean, he's losing money by taking on the Swamp, and yet he's still at it.  What a swell guy!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4zp3z1p3o

P.S.  Help is on the way, Elon, as I plan to buy at least 5 million Teslas in the second quarter.  Think I might need a bigger garage?

Generous To A Fault

 

Friends, Democrats and progressives have hearts of gold!  We know that because they keep telling us over and over.  But it's true: they're extremely generous when spending other people's money.  As it turns out, misplaced "compassion" is a defining characteristic of the Left, as I note in my most recent article.  It falls to us hard-hearted right-wingers to undo the damage that liberal altruism has inflicted on this country.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/04/01/killing-us-with-kindness-is-a-democratic-party-specialty-n2654759 

Vive L'Establishment!

 

Friends, France's Fifth Republic just got a whole lot less republican and/or democratic.  That's because the leading candidate in the country's next presidential election was disqualified by a judge from running for office for five years.  Neat trick, that!  Increasingly, as J.D. Vance warned, it looks like the Eurocrats have decided that they won't abide any popular input into who gets to lead them.  On the contrary, the "experts" will curate what passes for democracy so that no one offensive to establishment/progressive values can win political office.  No doubt the Dems are thinking to themselves, "Damn! We should have done that here a long, long time ago!"  They tried, half-heartedly, with the attempt to exclude Trump from the presidential ballot based on his supposedly insurrectionist crimes.  They tried more seriously with a series of prosecutions of Trump that were supposed to land him in the slammer for the rest of his natural life.  Well, this is one arena in which the French have us at a disadvantage.  They're apparently much more ruthless when it comes to crushing dissent.  We, on the other hand, seem to do FREEDOM way better than them.  I can live with that!

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-administration-marine-le-pen-banned/ 

 

Finally, there's unfortunately some considerable international blowback from Trumpism that's affecting how our nation is perceived and, more practically, whether anyone wants to come here as a tourist.  It's inevitable that an almost uniformly hostile global press corps will vilify Trump, and it's equally inevitable that the hatred for Trump overseas will bleed over into a species of contempt for Americans as a whole.  It's asinine, but it's going to be a fact of life for the next four years, and hopefully for a lot longer than that!  Get used to fewer foreign visitors, and a lot of dirty looks when you travel abroad.  It's the price we Americans must pay for exercising genuine sovereignty and going against the internationalist grain.  So be it.

 

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250328-the-people-boycotting-travel-to-the-us 

You Could Be A Winner!!!

 

Friends, as you know, there's a high stakes election coming up in Wisconsin for a State Supreme Court Justice.  Elon Musk is working the same magic he employed in the 2024 presidential election to try to gin up support for the Republican, Brad Schimel: he's handing out checks for $1 million to voters who sign a petition.  The Dems are naturally saying that Musk is "buying votes", although that's absurd.  What Musk may be doing, however, is buying enthusiasm and publicity, and both can go a long way in an off-year election.  We'll know in a few days whether Musk's machinations were a success.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7v3jj5xy9o 

Euro-Weenies on the Rampage!

 

 

Friends, check out my latest Newsmakers broadcast, in which I dare the Europeans to assume the burden of their own defense.  I also analyze the emptiness of the Dem attacks on the filthy rich, the outrageousness of public funding for PBS and NPR, the last minute decision to pull the nomination of Elise Stefanik as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., the rarity of pro-Hamas protests on most college campuses, the persistent problem of judicial overreach, the possibility of U.S. membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, and the makeover that the Smithsonian Institution is getting under MAGA auspices.  You won't want to miss my hard-hitting and incisive commentary!

 

https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-3-29-25/ 

 

In other news, could Russia be playing for time in ceasefire talks with the U.S. and Ukraine, with an eye to landing a knockout blow during a spring offensive?  It wouldn't surprise me.  It rather depends on what is more important to Russia: repairing its relationship with the West, or grabbing more land.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/29/ukrainians-predict-russia-preparing-for-spring-offensive-amid-ceasefire-talks/ 

The dastardly Dems are making a lot of a tiny uptick in inflation, but so far the U.S. economy has weathered the storm of a "tariff war" fairly well.  Note as well that wages went up the same amount as prices, so there's no impending doom for consumers, much as the media would like you to believe otherwise...

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/february-2025-pce-inflation 

A Smithsonian Makeover!

 

Friends, the MAGA Revolution is coming to the Smithsonian, and members of the brie-and-chardonnay set are fit to be tied.  Expect the venerable experts who run the place to kick and scream like toddlers.  It will be most interesting to see if the hostile presentation of "America" that has thus far prevailed at these otherwise fine museums will be adjusted.  I'll believe it when I see it.  In fact, I anticipate some universal injunctions from district court judges in the very near future mandating exactly what is and isn't included in museum exhibits.  I mean, why not?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo 

 

Apparently there's more and more talk in D.C. about defunding PBS and NPR, and I couldn't be happier!  This is a step that Republicans should have taken decades ago.  

 

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/03/26/bring-out-the-doge-machine-for-the-public-broadcasters-who-hate-half-of-america-n4938305 

Finally, DJT has withdrawn the nomination of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be our Ambassdor to the U.N., because her vote is desperately needed in the House of Representatives, where Republicans are clinging to a frightfully narrow majority.  I approve.  In fact, nominating Stefanik in the first place made little sense.  Her talents would be wasted at the United Nations, which is little more than a debating society for internationalist windbags.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/trump-elise-stefanik-united-nations.html 

Go Google Yourself, Google!

 

Friends, my latest article expands on my view that Google/Alphabet needs to be dismembered, once and for all, by the antitrust team at Trump's DOJ.  See if you don't agree:

https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/03/26/bigger-is-only-sometimes-better-n2654501

In other news, establishment forces and the legacy media are trying to spin the proposed visit of the Second Lady, Usha Vance, to Greenland as a "provocation" and an act of imperialism.  I say Greenland and Denmark's inhospitable and unnecessarily defensive attitude is a provocation, and I advise President Trump to initiate a draft in anticipation of a long, bloody struggle against Danish military forces.  Better safe than sorry!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwjllld1ro

In All His Glory

 

Friends, democracy hangs by a thread, and World War III is imminent!!!  No one cares about all that, however, because a portrait of Donald Trump, which he considers unflattering, has been removed from the Colorado State House.  The only thing that surprises me is that Trump's Colorado mug shot wasn't much less flattering.  I mean, the purpose of art, like the purpose of everything, is to trash Trump, right?  Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has sent Trump a different portrait (of Trump) that he (Trump) reportedly likes.  Images of that picture haven't been released, but I believe it looks a little something like this:

 

 

In other news, Trump is sticking it to a number of elite universities, and apparently some of them are caving to his demands.  That's very heartening.  In the long run, even better might be the complete disinvestment of the federal government from the debacle of elite higher ed.  Scaling the ivory tower will prove mighty difficult for conservatives, but knocking it down could prove more feasible...and just as gratifying!

 

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-24-columbias-capitulation-wesleyans-pushback/