Sublime

Yet despite the establishment propaganda, every time the Republicans have run a right-winger in the last forty years they have won the White House—and every time they’ve run a moderate they have lost. George H. W. Bush was especial proof of this, winning as Reagan II in 1988 before hiking taxes and moving to the center in time for a 1992 defeat.

he is one of the most important political thinkers on earth today.

I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the

Liberal dominance over arts and letters was so uniform during these postwar years that the cultural critic Lionel Trilling had declared with self-satisfaction, “Nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.”

For the evangelical left, majority rule is not as valid when the majority is white. For months and years leading up to 2016, leftists were ecstatic that we were “finally” going to be a minority-majority country just as our Founding Fathers didn’t intend but surely meant to. When that didn’t happen on schedule, they had a meltdown.