True liberalism is a right-wing ideology. The post MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next? appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Iran War MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next? True liberalism is a right-wing ideology. Credit: Abraham Bosse MAGA died, the Iran war killed it, and a resurrection isn’t likely. So argues Christopher Caldwell, a titan of intellectual conservatism, in a recent piece on Donald Trump for the Spectator. “The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base, so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national interest, that it is likely to mark the end of Trumpism as a project,” Caldwell writes. I’ve argued much the same in The American Conservative. Replying to such critiques, the Trump administration has brandished polls showing that 100 percent of MAGA-identified voters still approve of the president and…Open
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This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the […] Source
Freedom of navigation is the real bone of contention. The post The Strait, Not the Nuclear Program, Is the Sticking Point With Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Strait, Not the Nuclear Program, Is the Sticking Point With Iran Freedom of navigation is the real bone of contention. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Why is it so important for the U.S. to take and retain control of the Strait of Hormuz? No matter what else, why is this the only real nonnegotiable with Iran? At first glance the nonnegotiable seems to be Iran’s nuclear program. This raises the question of what might be left of the program after massive bombing by the U.S. and Israel. The media makes much of the fact that some enriched uranium is supposedly still buried under one of the ruined sites, and of course no one should simply write off radioactive material in the hands of an adversary. But the more…Open