The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Century of the Other John Michael Greer As a rule, no American election means as much as the shouting immediately afterward might lead you to think. Every four years, with a regularity that clockwork rarely matches, the supporters of the winning party pile all their daydreams of Utopia onto their candidate, while the partisans of the losing side howl that this time the jackboots and armbands will show up for certain. Then the new president is inaugurated, and something close to business as usual resumes. These have been getting plenty of use since November 5. This time, granted, the yelling is unusually loud. Some of that is an unintended byproduct of the losing side’s demonizing rhetoric during the last weeks of the campaign. Having convinced themselves (if no one else) that Donald Trump is literally Hitler, many Democrats are quaking in their shoes, sure that he must now act out the role they assigned him and throw them all into camps. Those camps have featured so relentles...

  Civil War II, Without Guns or Bayonets A House divided against itself Donald Jeffries The response to Donald Trump’s election continues to seethe and even explode, in all the big cities. In the upscale, lily-White gated communities. In the breakrooms of every public school. Behind the walls of Hollywood mansions. But most of all, on TikTok and Instagram, revealing America 2.0’s shocking level of insanity. In my last Substack, I blasted Trump for being Trumpenstein, as his initial cabinet choices were mirror images of the establishment disasters that he populated his first administration with. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State? But Trump must have been reading my Substack. Despite intimations that perhaps the Giant Orange Man is functionally illiterate, if he were to read something, what better than my humble offerings here? Trump’s picks of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, and RFK, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, were met with the kind of reaction you’d expect fr...

  Trump's Second Term: Foreign Policy Eric Striker Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign revived his 2016 outsider crusade against the Washington’s military adventures. In his latest run, the president-elect struck a remarkably sober tone on the many conflicts that have erupted in the last few years — which Jewish think-tanks  calmly dismiss  as baseless vote-getting — though he provided scant details on how he would approach Ukraine and the Middle East. The realities of America’s current geopolitical predicament were muffled under his questionable mantra that “no new wars” were prosecuted when he was in office. Buffing Trump’s everything-to-everyone shtick were a series of former left-wing anti-war influencers, such as Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and Tulsi Gabbard, who have in recent years hitched themselves to the MAGA wagon, citing the movements supposed non-interventionism as their reason. Perhaps Trump’s most audacious deception was his campaign’s outreach to the Arab community, ...