Richard Samuelson
4.9K posts
@Rickersam3
Historian/ Associate Professor of Government, Hillsdale, DC/ Good guy with a pun. (Pictured with Elvis)
This kind of stuff happens during war. We should be on guard.
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I think Dave Roberts did not hear those rants, because people were extremely afraid to expose verboten views to someone who would deem them transphobic. So when the vibe shifted, it seemed astroturfed rather than authentic. But it was not only extremely authentic; it was the majority view I encountered.
Really important literary detective work from David Samuels, who compared various manuscript versions of The Great Gatsby in the Princeton library's Fitzgerald archive and found abundent proof of the title character's Judaism tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
No, next question.
“If Harvard’s admissions process is producing a roughly 50 percent decline in a group historically defined by academic achievement, intellectual engagement, and contributions to university life, the process is working against Harvard’s own interest.”
YOU are the only Marxists here, you fat Fascist bitch. YOU are the ones who employed unnecessary lawfare against the current President of the United States, and EVERY single person who worked on his legal team. YOU are the ones who forced DEI, critical race theory and every other totalitarian abomination in public AND private schools for years. YOU are the ones who let troons and sexual perverts steer American culture into the gutter; YOU are the ones who demanded EVERY bank, corporation, social media platform and news media outlet oppress the American people, assaulting EVERY escape we had every day with leftist political slop. You'd BEST take your disgusting ass away from me, because if there's one thing I don't take kindly to, it's fat, ugly white leftist women trying to dictate to ME how I should live. Consider this fair warning, boo.
Relevant to the weird Postliberal Integralist arguments on this site the last few days, the notion that the US could be turned into a Catholic integralist state is a bizarre delusion. The math simply doesn't work. Catholics are about 20% of the population. Conservative trad catholics are probably about 10% of that 20%. And most conservative trad Catholics are *not* Postliberal Integralists. That likely means the total number of Postliberal Integralists in the US right now is no more than a few thousand people. That's why some of the more fanatical Postliberal Integralists (i.e. Gladden Pappin) seem to think that Integralism will only come about from the pope declaring JD Vance king of America, as opposed to an election, because even they realize the numbers do not exist. But they also don't seem to realize that the Pope has no interest in forcing Integralism on the US either...which is why there will be a coming wave of Postliberal Integralists who pivot to sedevacantist conspiracy theories in the coming years. nationalreview.com/corner/catholi…
If we’re going to gatekeep in the conservative movement, the number one question that should be on the questionnaire is do you believe in the separation of church and state? Do you believe in the first amendment? If the answer to that question is no then you’re not a conservative. It’s really that simple all of this other stuff is meant to obfuscate from that one basic question. So at the end of the day that is the line for the gatekeeping, do you believe that everybody in this country should be free to worship according to their faith. If that becomes a radical idea on the conservative right, then we already lost.
Nobody is going to be able to rent a place to live if landlords aren't able to get rid of people who don't pay the rent.
There’s literally an old motel with 30 fake hospice businesses in the rooms, and the parking lot is full of brand new BMWs and Mercedes… Just as blatant as the empty daycares.
