JULIETTE OCHIENG: Pelosi Plays Her Role.

AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE’S DREAM, SEEN WALKING IN LONDON:

I’ve long urged American conservatives to take the last words Ronald Reagan left for us to heart. You can see them on the gravestone at his resting place in his beloved California: “I know in my heart … there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.” You can imagine my joy when I saw Johnson utter the identical sentiment. “My mother,” he told the Tory faithful at their annual conference this year, “taught me to believe strongly in the equal importance, the equal dignity, the equal worth of every human being on the planet.” Somewhere the Gipper is smiling.

This principle, more than Brexit, defines why Johnson’s Tories won seats in places the Labour Party has dominated for decades (in some cases, for more than a century). Working-class men and women could see that, like them, Johnson was an outsider despised by the London elites. They could see he had the courage to take on those elites, including the ones inside his own party. Just as working-class Democrats cast off 40 years of heritage to vote in 1980 for another outsider belittled by elites, so working-class Britons turned to Johnson, the only party leader who saw them as equals. The result: Johnson’s Conservatives beat Labour among the rich, middle class and poor on Thursday, something they have never done before.

Populist conservatism can unite America, too. It alone gives a home to suburbanites and working-class men and women of all creeds and colors. It alone brings us together rather than pulling us apart. And it rests on that most American of principles, the one that the world first heard expressed politically in an American document justifying revolution against a British king.

It’s (somewhat) easy to unite people against an elite as corrupt and incompetent as ours, or Britain’s. I’m less clear about what comes next. I’d rather see a system less prone to takeover by such people because it’s smaller and weaker and less prestigious.

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THE SWAMP’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Ex-FBI official gets seven days jail for accessing anti-Mueller activist’s emails.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

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ANALYSIS: TRUE.

LEFTIST CULTURE OF HATE: ‘He needs to be humiliated’: Robert De Niro calls for someone to rub a ‘bag of shit’ in Trump’s face.

While Jane Fonda, now 82, spends her dotage getting arrested each week, having flashbacks to her Hanoi Jane days, De Niro, age 76, seems to be channeling his assorted Scorsese tough guy characters, knowing that he’ll never be called out by the left for his own style of “eliminationist” rhetoric.

Earlier: Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him. “Trump’s supporters have known since election night that this day would eventually come. After all, his sworn enemies have been openly promising it since before he was sworn into office! They’ve used words like ‘resistance,’ ‘coup,’ ‘insurance policy,’ and ‘impeachment’ so often that, now that they are actually doing it, the American people — and Republicans especially — are offering a collective yawn.”

THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS WE DESERVE: The gavel will fall. Trump will remain in office. Democrats will mourn. Pollsters will poll and 2020 will be a nasty, nasty election.

SPACE: Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices.

JON GABRIEL: Careful, Democrats. This is what happens when you can’t accept an election outcome. “Last week, we saw what happens when elites subvert democracy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party won a resounding 80-seat majority for the Conservatives, the largest since the days of Margaret Thatcher. The opposing Labour Party faced its greatest defeat since 1935, losing some seats it had held for a century.”

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Attempt Video Found.

OUT ON A LIMB: West Point, Annapolis Find Cadets’ Hand Gestures Were Not ‘White Power’ Signals.

Related: ‘Ratio’d to the moon:’ Columnist acknowledges ‘suspicions’ about cadets flashing ‘white power’ symbol were wrong (but guess who’s to blame for his kneejerk reaction):

As James Taranto tweeted in response, “It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! I would never hurt you. You know that.”

Similarly: Jesse Watters Asks Juan Williams to Apologize to the Cadets/Midshipmen, He Refuses.

Rodricks and Williams were far from alone, though: Pundits Push Worst Possible Explanation for Innocent Cadet Hand Gesture.

ICYMI: James Bovard: Inspector General report on FBI’s FISA abuse tells us one thing: We need radical reform.

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AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Florida vegan couple charged with murder after 18-month-old son dies of malnutrition: cops.

“THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN:” This was supposed to be the year NASA astronauts launched into space from U.S. soil again.

Related (From Ed): Boeing’s brilliant year continues: Boeing Starliner misses target orbit, won’t reach space station.

SOCIALISM: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL LEAVE. “California added more than 180,000 people when accounting for births and deaths for the 12 month period ending July 1. But when you include people who moved in and out of the state, California lost 39,500. State officials say it is the first time since the 2010 census that more people left California than moved in over the course of a year, contributing to the state’s slowest recorded growth rate since 1900.”

Earlier: 35 percent of San Franciscans consider leaving for good, according to city survey.

Somebody really needs to fund Glenn’s Welcome Wagon idea.

SCHOOLS ARE A MAJOR CAUSE: Kids are facing a mental health crisis and schools aren’t able to address it.

RIP TO THE LAST AMERICAN HERO: Junior Johnson, moonshiner turned NASCAR legend, dies at 88.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Transgender worker suing Nike for $1.1 million cites pronoun abuses.

Insert Kissinger Iran-Iraq War quote here.

YOU NEED TO: 1 in 5 in U.S. don’t know three most common heart attack symptoms. Plus: “In the setting of a heart attack, you should be calling 911 and not wasting time looking up your symptoms on a computer.”

JOHN NOLTE: DC’s Half-Billion Dollar Newseum Boondoggle to Close Permanently in January.

So now the Newseum is not only closing, it is dead, doornail dead. Since this inevitability became inevitable, the hope had been to find another location, a smaller location like the original one that opened in 1997 — or at least another museum that would be interested in displaying the exhibits.

Nope.

The public rejection is complete.

The whole thing will be dead and buried on January 1, and good riddance to all this rubbish.

My God, I’d rather spend money to visit a Mafia Museum. At least the mafia never pretended to be something it wasn’t. As far as which institution has done more damage to the country — the mafia or the media… I’m thinking, I’m thinking.

Actually, I visited the Mob Museum at the start of the year when I was in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. It’s loads of fun — much more so than the Newseum from all accounts. There’s no moral equivalence between the mob and law enforcement, except if you attend the basement distillery’s taste-testing of some of the types of hooch the mob sold during Prohibition, which is absolutely vile swill, but for many, better than nothing while the Volstead Act was in force.