President Donald Trump had called Pope Leo XIV "WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy."
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a leading figure in the populist nationalist movement, and his Fidesz party were defeated in a sweeping election victory for challenger Péter Magyar and his Tisza party on Sunday. The opposition coalition secured 138 of 199 parliamentary seats—sufficient to change the national constitution—ending Orbán's 16-year rule. The post Globalists Cheer as Orbán Ousted — But Populist Agenda May Survive. appeared first on The National Pulse .
Hungary’s opposition has secured a decisive victory, ending populist nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a leading figure in the populist nationalist movement, and his Fidesz party were defeated in a sweeping election victory for challenger Péter Magyar and his Tisza party on Sunday. The opposition coalition secured 138 of 199 parliamentary seats—sufficient to change the national constitution—despite Orbán’s pre-election endorsement by President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, and other leading populists such as Nigel Farage, ending the Hungarian premier’s 16-year rule. DETAIL: Orbán’s defeat has been hailed by…Open
Where are the J.D. Vances of yesteryear? The post Quitting Time? appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Home Plate Quitting Time? Where are the J.D. Vances of yesteryear? (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images) While waiting for Vice President J.D. Vance—who as Senator Vance was among the corporal’s guard of war skeptics in that body—either to regain his voice or to reclaim his cojones from a safe-deposit box buried deep within the bowels of Trump Tower, patriots in the administration’s foreign-policy division might examine how their forebears answered the question, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” In Resignation in Protest (1975), the political scientists Edward Weisband and Thomas M. Franck wondered why, despite Vietnam and Watergate, there had been so few “courageous public defections of key disaffected members of the…Open
Evangelical and Catholic allies call the post “blasphemous” and urge its removal in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.
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Is Trump a naïve weakling, willing to roll over for foreign dictators? Or is he a mad king, dragging the country into World War III? […] Source
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) ended his bid for California governor on Sunday after being accused of sexually assaulting a former aide and other instances of misconduct. #CAgovrace #Election2026
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Mamdani also said the city's commitment to containerizing trash is full steam ahead.
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While Vice President JD Vance is the presumed favorite to win the party nomination, he has not announced his plans to run, nor has Trump endorsed him to become the next president.
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Pity the hack who works for Gavin Newsom. The post Ghostwriter in a Hurry appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Ghostwriter in a Hurry Pity the hack who works for Gavin Newsom. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, by Gavin Newsom. Penguin Press, 304 pages. Let’s start with the acknowledgments, usually the best place to begin in a political memoir. Here the author admits that he is less composer and more collaborator. Although his name appears on the cover and the story is his own, the real work of compilation is done by a shadow army of ghostwriters, developmental editors, line editors, copy editors, and fact checkers. No one feels any compunction about this arrangement. It is just the way the business works. The writers and editors offer their services, the author accepts, and everyone who…Open