“Congress has to do its part. This does not take the place of, it cannot replicate the SAVE America Act. We need the SAVE America Act, and we need it passed right now,” U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the most vocal supporter of the bill, said after the ruling.
The House and Senate have drained themselves of power and relevance. The post Congress Is Fake appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Congress Is Fake The House and Senate have drained themselves of power and relevance. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images On July 26, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote a message to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in a post on X: I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote. Do not assume you have my consent. You do not. On August 8, the Senate went into its customary August recess without objection. No roll call vote was held. The SAVE America Act (which would implement…Open
A new book surveys the right’s dramatic transformation since 2015. The post Why Is This Highly Respected Commentator Smiling? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Why Is This Highly Respected Commentator Smiling? A new book surveys the right’s dramatic transformation since 2015. Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America by Scott Greer, Passage Publishing, 2026 264 pgs. $34.95 Last month I received an email even more bothersome than the average inbox fodder of a magazine editor. It wasn’t a barely English, 3,000-word cold submission on “the political philosophy of Sydney Sweeney’s subversive sex appeal,” which, come to think of it, would probably do numbers for the website. It was instead about a piece already…Open
The latest attacks on Vance are clearly and irreducibly about foreign policy. The post All the Vice President’s Critics appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics All the Vice President’s Critics The latest attacks on Vance are clearly and irreducibly about foreign policy. J.D. Vance has been taking fire of late. From the left, of course—but also from the right, whose remaining “zombie Reaganites” have launched an effort to call his conservative bona fides into question. Much of this criticism purports to find in Vance nothing more than a camouflaged leftist. Writing of Vance’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience last month, commentator Ben Shapiro said he heard the vice president articulate “Bernie Sanders’ economics, Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and Ro…Open
Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Rand Paul each have reasons to run in ’28. The post Three GOP Senators Who Could Complicate a Vance/Rubio Coronation appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Three GOP Senators Who Could Complicate a Vance/Rubio Coronation Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Rand Paul each have reasons to run in ’28. Chances are good that the Republican nominee for president in 2028 will be named either J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio (as I write, the prediction markets put the odds at around 70 percent). Yet we are still a long way from the first primary, and much could change. Republicans might get clobbered worse than expected in the midterms. Perhaps the AI bubble will burst and crash the economy—or maybe it won’t, and the robots will take our jobs ahead of schedule. But whatever the situation,…Open
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
Pfluger compared voter ID requirements to needing identification for Olive Garden's Never-Ending Pasta Pass.