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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…
by Michael Watson on December 2, 2024

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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…
by Michael Watson on December 2, 2024

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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…
by Michael Watson on December 2, 2024

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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…
by Michael Watson on December 2, 2024

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A Snapshot of Hate: Pro-Hamas Group Protesting “Killer Kamala” Also Posted Pic Simulating Biden Beheading
One of the anti-Israel groups who protested Vice President Kamala Harris appearance at the American Federation of Teachers conference in Houston last Thursday previously posted a shocking photo simulating a…
by Ryan Mauro on August 1, 2024

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: WEIRD
Increasingly, postgraduate education and proximity to cities of major cultural and economic influence define “elite” status more than even money does. Survey research shows that these new elites are radical-to-extremist…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Polling the Elites
Scott Rasmussen and CtUP have surveyed a very specific population highly predisposed to hard progressivism. But this is still an important population, despite its being only approximately 1 percent of…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: What Makes an Elite?
If WEIRD leftism is generated not by money but by the status-generating institutions of American life, this creates a problem for the Right. To obtain public office, positions in government…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: The Elites and California Disease
Because of the outsize influence of the Golden State on American culture and the outsize influence of the presidency—especially the presidency of conservative Californian Ronald Reagan—on national politics, many think…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Whither the Counter-Elite?
Whichever elite class resists the temptation of California Disease is going to have a big advantage in claiming the future.
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024