Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

May 24, 2026

DEMOCRACY DIES IN JUNK SCIENCE:

 

 

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on May 24th, 2026

THE ASSASSINATION FAN BASE:

The wounded Reagan quipped to the lead doctor on his trauma team, “I hope you’re all Republican.” What made the quip amusing is that both Reagan and the team knew it mattered not in the least whether its members were Republican. The doctor, a Democrat, amusingly but perhaps a bit solemnly replied, “Today, we’re all Republicans.”

I think most Americans would like to live in a world where such an exchange is still possible. I’m not sure it is.

A significant number of Americans took to Bluesky, TikTok, Reddit, and the streets to express their regret that Trump’s would-be assassins had been unsuccessful and to praise the assassins of Charlie Kirk and UnitedHealthcare’s Thompson. In the case of the latter two, many asked or offered their opinion on who should be next. (I won’t cite any examples. If you are at all online, you have seen them in abundance, and if not, you may want to spare yourself.)

At present, the assassination fan base is pretty much a left-wing subculture. So far, it has applauded attempts on the lives of a former president, a conservative activist, a corporate CEO, and a conservative Supreme Court justice. The closest thing on the right is the online coterie claiming that Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, did nothing wrong, either because they were let in or were duped into entering by a government plot. But to speak up on behalf of J6 defendants, even to the point of alleging conspiracies, is not the same as celebrating the assassinations of Kirk and Thompson and lamenting the misses on Trump. I hope no comparable figure on the left becomes a target that thereby allows us to ascertain whether there is a comparable fan base for assassination on the right.

We should also note that even “lone gunmen, acting alone” have to get their ideas about whom to target from somewhere. They, too, have social networks, which likely traffic in in-group suggestions about who in the out-group are the worst of the worst. So we are now living in a political culture in which a potential would-be assassin can count on a social network for inspiration and an outpouring of public support after the fact. This is fertile ground for evil, perhaps because assassins always believe they are doing good. And we may be cultivating more and more of them.

The DNC-MSM loves ginning up the crazies:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on May 24th, 2026

May 23, 2026

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED: Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service.

Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He used a revolver and only got off a few shots before he was quickly shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.

A least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.

Exit quote: “While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who believed he was Jesus Christ and is known to the Secret Service and has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House.”

Posted at 9:18 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

DEVELOPING: Gunshots heard near White House. “The incident reportedly happened near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, which is the intersection just northwest of the White House.”

UPDATE:

UPDATE (8:25 PM):

Posted at 8:25 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER: The Long Farewell to Stephen Colbert Is Finally Over; Now We Can Laugh at the Grave Mourning of His Loss.

Many others this week have been flooding the headlines with this cancellation, and it has been a miasma of misinformation. As the show closes, the ongoing conceit has been that Colbert has been forced off the airwaves by President Trump. This, despite the reason given by multiple news outlets showing that this was a business decision by the network. First reported by Puck News, the program’s fiscal losses of between $40-50 million a year for CBS were also stated as a cause by the New York Post, and confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.

But let’s not allow data and spreadsheets to interrupt a political narrative! Trump cannot tolerate being insulted, and so he was forcing Colbert off the air as a form of retribution. As alleged noted historian Jon Meacham said, “Always worry when they come for the comedians.”

Exactly. CBS has replaced a member of the Democrats’ palace guard…

…With a man who says this:

[Byron] Allen has revealed that he plans to lease the time slot from the network and sell its ad revenue himself. “I’m putting a lot of money in their cash register,” he said. “I am a gift from the money gods*. And the comedy gods.”

His series, however, will stay far away from the type of political humor that defined The Late Show. “I don’t care who you vote for. I just don’t care,” Allen said. “That’s your business. Go do what you gotta do, you know? I’m just here to make you laugh.”

Instead, Comics Unleashed will maintain its original format and feature, as Allen explained, “nothing political, nothing sexist, nothing racist, nothing antisemitic, nothing homophobic.” He added that he wants his show to “just be funny.”

The response from another palace guard? Jimmy Kimmel Urges Viewers to “Never Watch CBS Again” After Colbert Finale.

To paraphrase Jon Meacham, always worry when the palace guard comes for the comedians:

* Wait, CBS will have a net inflow of money during their late night timeslot? That’s got to be a relief after all the cash this show hemorrhaged:

UPDATE: “Always worry when they come for the comedians:”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

JOHN NOLTE: Supergirl Actress Continues to Implode with Ridicule of ‘Christian Dads.’

There was no backlash against the Wonder Woman series 50 years ago. No backlash against Ripley in Alien and Aliens over 40 years ago. Linda Hamilton? Pam Grier? Buffy? All of them loved, embraced, and are now iconic.

Anyway, after starting this fight back in March, Little Miss Entitled-Fake-Trailblazer is now responding to the criticism she desperately sought by ridiculing “Christian Dads.”

“I guess women know that this is just how it’s always been, unfortunately,” Alcock said of the criticism over her retarded comments back in March. “And it’s from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts. Or someone’s name and then ‘Dad of four, Christian,’ which is hilarious to me. But I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you’re pissing the right kind of people off, you’re doing OK.”

Man alive.

Okay, it’s not all her fault. She’s pretty young and was even younger when fame arrived a few years ago with HBO’s House of Dragon. Fame warps you, especially at that age, and especially in a Hollywood that no longer stops its young stars from imploding like this. Sure, Mickey Rooney was an unholy terror in real life, but his public persona was so expertly managed that he became the biggest movie star in the world for a few years.

Warner Brothers shot themselves in the foot while promoting 2006’s Superman Returns, with the infamous slogan, “Truth, justice and . . . all that stuff,” and aiming the marketing of what should have been a family-friendly movie towards a gay audience. As a result:

While the film was one of the biggest films of the year, earning $391.1 million on a budget of $204–223 million and becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 2006, Warner Bros. was disappointed with the worldwide box office return and cancelled a sequel for release in 2009.

Supergirl’s slogan is “Truth. Justice. Whatever.”

“Whatever” may well be the audience’s response next month.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

TRUMP GOT INTRO FROM BIG NAME AT RALLY, AND LIBERALS WERE NOT HAPPY CAMPERS:

President Donald Trump was in New York for a rally on Friday at Rockland Community College in Suffern to support Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) for re-election.

As our sister site Townhall observed, Trump got a pretty big introduction while he was there from N.Y. Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart. “Big Blue” is the nickname for the Giants, so of course, he first gave a shout-out to them and the fans.

“What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here,” Dart declared, then he introduced the “45th and 47th President of the United States.”

Trump was equally gracious, praising Dart’s skills and saying he, Trump, loved New York and that we needed to “straighten it out.”

Related: Question asked and answered:

 

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

HEY, WE DON’T SERVE THEIR KIND HERE! YOUR DROIDS — THEY’LL HAVE TO WAIT OUTSIDE. WE DON’T WANT THEM HERE! Southwest Bans Humanoid Robots After Viral Passenger Flights.

A humanoid robot made it to Dallas. Its fellow robots may not get the same boarding pass.

Southwest Airlines has banned “human-like or animal-like robots” from passenger cabins and checked luggage, citing concerns about the lithium-ion batteries used to power them. The rule follows viral flights in which travelers bought seats for event robots, creating confusion for crews over whether the machines counted as passengers, carry-ons, or something stranger in between.

The ban turns a quirky travel story into a sharper industry question: Will other airlines follow Southwest’s lead as lifelike robots become more common in public spaces?

Notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias smiles.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 23rd, 2026

May 22, 2026

SPENCER FOR HIRE:

As Stephen Miller tweets, “If you tackle and dent or even solve rampant homelessness, a lot of people lose their jobs and a lot of the funding and donations cease and that’s why there’s a sudden flood of negative media going his way. They aren’t scared of him winning. But they are scared that once people realize problems can be solved, a whole lot of the slush funding dries up.”

17 years ago in Northern California, SF Weekly stumbled into the Fox Butterfield effect, when one of its writers observed, “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s.” In L.A., Pratt wants to break that cycle. Do the city’s leftist residents who foot the bill?

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

DEBRA SAUNDERS: The bell tolls for Facebook staffers.

Ahead of the big tranche of layoffs Facebook implemented on May 20, I finished reading “Careless People: A story of where I used to work,” a memoir by one-time Facebook (then Meta) big-shot Sarah Wynn-Williams. The memoir, first published in 2025, is a cautionary tale.

Wynn-Williams and I have very different politics. Still, I was drawn to her story of a New Zealand native who went to work for Facebook with the belief that the social-media platform would change the world for the better. It’s a life lesson that extremely smart people can be really stupid.

“Employees are encouraged to believe they’re changing the world, not working for a corporation,” Wynn-Williams writes. And: “Changing how people communicate will aways change the world.”

Problem: Practically no one at FB HQ knew how the world would change, and there was little consideration of the possibility that social media could affect modern life in a bad way.

At the beginning of 2016, Bloomberg’s Justin Fox suggested, “You want to ‘change the world’? Keep it to yourself.”

Whenever I hear people saying they want to “change the world,” I get suspicious. Do they want to change it for the better or for the worse? If it’s the former, what makes them think they know enough to do that? Wouldn’t it be more realistic and less arrogant to try to change their companies or their neighbourhoods ― or maybe just themselves?

Still, it’s a popular goal. There are books, college courses and conferences on how to do it. There’s also a new documentary film called How to Change the World (it’s about the origins of Greenpeace), and a not-so-new Eric Clapton song called “Change the World” (I think it’s about love). In a related and timely vein, the World Economic Forum, meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week, tells us that it is “committed to improving the state of the world.”

Changing the world seems to be most popular, though, in and around Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal’s Yuliya Chernova once did an analysis of LinkedIn profiles and found that “change the world” was far more likely to show up in San Francisco Bay area profiles than those from any other region. “Here, the goal is to change the world,” LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman [pre-TDS] matter-of-factly wrote in October. “We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago,” former Facebooker Justin Rosenstein declared, somewhat more grandiosely, in 2012.

In September of that same year, at the Foundation for Economic Education, Donald J. Boudreaux explored “The Problem with Wanting to ‘Change the World.’” Only one?

Most people who want to change the world seldom pause to ponder what, exactly, about the world needs changing. After all, much about the world is pretty darn good, and, hence, is likely not an appropriate candidate for the wiles of any “change-agent.” Worse, most people who want to change the world have in mind schemes that involve forcing others to behave in ways that they would not otherwise.

Our world has massively changed, mostly for the better, over the past two or three centuries. And nearly all of this change came in doses so small that the names of those who performed each beneficial change were never widely known, and are today lost forever in the thick mists of history. Most – although by no mean all – of the “change-agents” whose names are known were human butchers (e.g., Hitler and Stalin) or arrogant ‘men of system’ (e.g., Clement Attlee and Franklin Roosevelt) who saddled others with counterproductive burdens and restrictions even if the destructiveness of these efforts is today still largely denied.

Evergreen question: “What Is To Be Done About Facebook?”

Posted at 4:31 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

ROD DREHER: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed.

According to the 75-page unfinished manifesto left behind by Caleb Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, the pair hated Muslims, Jews, blacks, legal migrants, illegal migrants, Latinos, Asians, industrial society, gays, trans people, Donald Trump, “MAGAtard boomers,” liberals, conservatives, moderates, and women.

Oh boy, did they hate women. “After the Jew the most evil creature in this world is the woman,” wrote Vazquez, in his contribution to the two-part document. He identifies himself as a short man on the autism spectrum. This, he believed, is why women ignored him.

“Being short, especially now more than ever, is nothing short [of] a torturous humiliation ritual. As someone who’s been short my whole life, trust me, I know from experience and they’ve never let me forget it.”

“When a girl is shy or introverted it’s cute, but I, as a guy, for being the exact same, am seen as weird and awkward,” he continued. “When a girl is autistic it is seen as quirky, but I, being an autist as a guy, am treated like a retard.”

The manifesto reads like what you might expect teenagers marinated 24/7 in intersecting currents of internet hate to produce: crude, stupid, self-pitying, and overflowing with rage at all the people these self-described National Socialist Ecofascists identify as the Enemy. Clark calls himself a Christian, but Vazquez, who is Latino, said, “my religion is the white race.” In fact, Vazquez acknowledges that some will consider him a Latino who pretends to be white, “but that’s honestly fine and I could care less.”

Related: San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez’s family breaks silence on terror attack, say autistic son was brainwashed online.

The family recognized the attack caused devastating and irreversible pain for the victims, their loved ones and the broader Muslim community, adding that no apology could ever make up for the loss and trauma inflicted by Vazquez.

“We reject hatred, extremism, bigotry, and violence in every form. We stand firmly against the ideology and actions that led to this tragedy. These actions do not reflect the values we raised our family with or the beliefs we hold in our hearts,” Vazquez’s family said.

The Vazquez family added that their son’s beliefs and actions are completely at odds with the values they raised him with, emphasizing their family’s diverse background and longstanding belief in acceptance, compassion and respect for people of all cultures and religions.

“Our son was on the autism spectrum, and it is painfully clear to us now that he struggled not only
with accepting parts of his own identity but also grew to resent them,” they said.

Vazquez and Clark released a manifesto, obtained by The California Post, before the shooting in which they shared hateful imagery and messages — campaigning for a race war. The weapons they used in the attack were covered in racist messages, including “Race War Now.”

Exit quote from Dreher:

The Clark-Vazquez manifesto is the logical extension of the antisemitism that has been normalized in these circles of “educated” Zoomers of the left and the right. Last fall, I asked a group of U.S. college students why so many of their generation are antisemitic. One young man told me that it’s not through reading, but through relentless social media exposure to memes.

Clark understood this. In his part of the manifesto, Clark urged would-be imitators to take up memeing and shitposting, which “has done more to radicalize the masses than any book or manifesto ever could. . . . This is how we win.”

This is happening all over with Generation Z, the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital culture, which simplifies and amplifies the passions as radically as that new technology, radio, once did. And we older people barely notice it.

QED:

 

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

DEVELOPING: Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet. Her husband Abraham was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer, she wrote in her resignation letter.

Posted at 1:20 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY SELL COLA DIFFERENTLY THERE:

This was the last gasp of a shared culture and a mass media, which only two years earlier had gone all-in on removing Richard Nixon from power. As I wrote on July 4th, 2020, in-between Walter Cronkite droning on about the impending eco-disasters of a new ice age and overpopulation to viewers of the CBS Evening News, and episodes of M*A*S*H as a thinly-disguised Vietnam War commentary full of moral equivalence between the US, North Korea and Communist China, CBS could still muster up some of its biggest stars to host “Bicentennial Minutes” on the important events that led up to the nation’s founding. Today, the network would likely draft Stephen Colbert and Colin Kaepernick [hey, remember them, 2026 readers?] to opine on how the nation was born in Original Sin. Perhaps it was the lack of a 24-hour cable news cycle, or the increasingly left-leaning network remembering that it still needed to serve a wide swatch of viewers. In any case, even with a Republican president in the White House, the Bicentennial proved that as late as 1976, the Democratic Party-dominated overculture still offered room for all, decades before today’s “no escapism” mentality on the elite left.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: “What is a Woman?”

The New Hotness: What is a Women’s Museum?

Posted at 7:16 am by Ed Driscoll on May 22nd, 2026

May 21, 2026

SHE AND THE MEDIA DID EVERYTHING BUT FIRE UP THE ENOLA GAY: Harris Campaign Didn’t Go Negative Enough on Trump, DNC Autopsy Concludes.

A newly-released Democratic National Committee report looking back at how the party lost the 2024 election concludes that then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost, in part, because she failed to focus sufficient negative attention on President Trump.

“The national campaign did not effectively drive Trump’s negatives, and the White House did not effectively support Vice President Harris over three and half years to improve her standing before the candidate switch,” reads the autopsy, written by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, who was asked by the DNC to investigate why the party failed to wing big in 2024.

Rivera goes on to suggest that Democrats failed to remind Americans why they disliked Trump in his first term.

She should have really called Trump a super-duper really evil Nazi poopy-head than simply just another Hitler, I guess: In October of 2024,Kamala was comparing Trump to Hitler (while aggressively seeking endorsements from Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, who were Hitler from 2001 to 2008):

Yesterday, V.P. Harris compared President Trump to Hitler,  “Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution. He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.”

The V.P.’s comment comparing Trump to Hitler indicates she doesn’t care about minimizing the horrors of the Holocaust or she is an imbecile incapable of understanding.

Her comments were based on a story in the leftist magazine The Atlantic reporting that Trump’s former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, called Trump a “fascist” and recalled his admiration for Nazi generals. Kelly also raised concerns about Trump’s recent threats to use the military against “the enemy from within.”

Flashback: Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?

UPDATE: DNC Releases, Then Disowns, 2024 Election Autopsy.

The document is incomplete. For example, it does not mention Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, a single time, nor does it analyze her choice of running mate. It incorrectly cites data — at times failing to provide any sourcing at all.

For example, in one section reviewing the party’s “state of technology and data,” the report appeared to lift passages from other sources without any citation.

The report said: “Knowledge about voters was stored separately from data about campaign interactions, because those databases were developed by different teams who had little interest in making their systems compatible.”

And in a 2012 MIT Technology Review article, authored by Sasha Issenberg: “As was typical in political information infrastructure, knowledge about people was stored separately from data about the campaign’s interactions with them, mostly because the databases built for those purposes had been developed by different consultants who had no interest in making their systems work together.”

And thus Joe Biden’s career comes full circle. Perhaps Neil Kinnock and the autopen contributed to the report as well.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

THAT’S THE CHICAGO WAY!

Hey, you know who else really liked Hugo Boss…

On a much more serious note:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

OH, COOK! James May rates Tesla’s diner (honest review):

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

BORN TO RERUN: Springsteen Claims CBS Has No Idea What America Is About In Ode To Colbert.

On Wednesday’s penultimate episode of CBS’s The Late Show singer Bruce Springsteen delivering his ode to host Stephen Colbert where he declared that the show is going away because President Trump can’t take a joke and because Paramount’s leaders “feel they need to kiss his ass.” Earlier, on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel sang a similar tune when he declared that they should be ashamed of themselves, even if they are not.

Before launching into his anti-Trump and anti-ICE song “Streets of Minneapolis,” Springsteen gave his ode to Colbert, “I am here in support tonight for Stephen, because you’re the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke. And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass* to get what they want. So, these are— Anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people, they got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about. This is for you.”

To be fair, Colbert isn’t the first CBS employee to think he’s being taken off air because “the president can’t take a joke.” As Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad wrote in their 1986 book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live: 

CBS canceled the Smothers Brothers in June of 1969, five months after Richard Nixon became President. The reason the network gave was that one of their shows had been turned in after the deadline stipulated in their contract, but Tommy Smothers, Mason Williams, Rob Reiner, and Steve Martin believe to this day the cancellation was politically motivated. “Nixon came in and we were off,” Smothers said. “We were thrown off the air because of our viewpoint on Vietnam.” They were also thrown off, Smothers adds, “because we had no ally in high places” at CBS. That was a key mistake that Lorne Michaels, six years later, would not repeat.

* Earlier: NBC Miscasts CBS Ownership as Partisan Actor as Colbert Eulogies Begin.

CHLOE MELAS: CBS was recently acquired by Skydance Media, whose owner David Ellison is a prominent Trump supporter. CBS called the cancellation a purely financial decision and not related in any way to the show’s performance. But that statement doesn’t ring true to everyone. Brian Lowry is a media veteran reporter.

BRIAN LOWRY: There was a sense the studio was eager to curry favor with the Trump administration.

The idea of Ellison as “prominent Trump supporter” makes for good narrative ahead of Colbert’s cancellation. But it simply isn’t true. As our own Brent Baker noted, in 2024 Ellison donated $929,000 to the Biden Victory Fund. AS CNBC noted, this was “the largest recorded contribution that the Skydance Media CEO ever made to a federal candidate.” Not very MAGA. Also, not very accurate.

The Ellison MAGA rebrand is an important element in the ongoing canonization of late-night comics to Resistance™ sainthood. In Colbert’s particular case this narrative is useful inasmuch as it helps brush off the financial reality of the show as a key element of its cancellation.

It doesn’t help matters that Colbert’s nightly audience of about 2.75 million viewers have an average age that’s not far off from Springsteen’s, and the show was losing CBS $40 million per year.

UPDATE: Colbert’s demise, by the numbers.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT:

One of the best? The L.A. Times tells us that Colbert is the Catholic evangelist:

In any case, I prefer my Catholic evangelists to be a bit more G-rated:

UPDATE: Brian Stelter jumps onboard the St. Colbert procession:

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

AND NOW, A FIRESIDE CHAT FROM MAYOR FRANKLIN DELANO MAMDANI:

It’s an “unexpectedly” appropriate comparison:

● FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.

—Frontiers of Freedom, December 14th, 2015.

● New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.

—Steve Usdin, Tablet, April 29, 2018.

● A controversial executive order leads to internment camps:

The executive order didn’t specify Japanese-Americans as a group, but the U.S. military detained more than 100,000 people in the next six months and moved them to camps and facilities with armed guards and barbed wire.

There were 10 camps set up nationally, and about 120,000 people were interned in the camps during the war. About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States. People of Italian and German heritage were also detained.

The controversial moves were met with legal challenges, which eventually were unsuccessful in freeing the detainees from the camps, despite the serious constitutional issues involved.

—The National Constitution Center, February 19th, 2024.

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026

THE MEDIA CAN’T SEE THE POPULIST VOTE CLEARLY TO SAVE THEIR LIVES:

If you’re looking for an explanation of Massie’s defeat in a Republican primary election, consider the extraordinary possibility that Republican voters might have had something to do with it, having made their own evaluation about the quality of his service in public office. The change in the last two years is that Massie entered into a political partnership with Democrats, allying with the Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna, a particularly repellent Democrat, to try to harm Trump politically. He was also one of two Republicans in the House to vote against the Big Beautiful Bill, the landmark legislation of Trump’s second term.

Republican voters are punishing elected officials who don’t work consistently to advance the agenda of the Republican Party and its much-ignored base, while also telling a clear story about working to advance a Republican agenda. Republican voters are … Republicans. Massie didn’t lose because of Donald Trump or because of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on May 21st, 2026
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