Phony Partisan “Charities” Overplayed Their Hand in 2024
Get-out-the-vote (GOTV) ads were more obnoxious this year. Sagging polls made the left’s GOTV machine desperate, and it dug deep in its bag of tricks to find ways to win. The full…
2024 election
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: It Wasn’t Just the Presidency
The 2024 election results are easily shown by the New York Times election-swing map. Unlike 2020, in which the swing-from-2016 map shows many counties that shifted against the change in…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: The Current American Plurality
Since before the first election of President Barack Obama, Big Philanthropy and liberal interest groups have awaited the rise of a “New American Majority” to be based on a “rising…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: How the Left Lost
So how, then, did the Left lose? The answer can be found in the liberal-progressive-Democratic coalition’s process ideology, Everything Leftism. The Biden administration operationalized Everything Leftism throughout its government, with…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: Cautions and Conclusions
The Victory that now lies with President-elect Trump’s Republicans remains winged and ready to flee. They may find that, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s George Washington from the musical…
About Elon Musk
After reading Benjamin Soskis’ interesting and thoughtful assessment earlier this week in The Chronicle of Philanthropy of Elon Musk’s role in the 2024 U.S. election, I began to thumb through a copy of Nixon…
Mystery Donor Behind J.B. Prtizker’s Resistance Group Unmasked
Last week the New York Times reported that a collation of governors calling themselves “Governors Safeguarding Democracy” (GSD) had been formed to “serve as a mechanism for Democratic states to…
InfluenceWatch Podcast 341: Progressive Transgender Coercion
The Wall Street Journal called it the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election—“progressive transgender coercion.” But our guest today argues that it wasn’t the “sleeper issue”—it was the central issue.
About the Three Working Classes
In August 2024, University of Pennsylvania professor and former member of the George W. Bush administration John J. DiIulio Jr. published an op-ed in National Review on the political trends…
Agents of Influence: The Pitiful Presidential Pollsters
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. —George Carlin Every four years,…