by Henry Oliner | Apr 8, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
In only a few months as the majority in the House we have been treated to an avalanche of bad ideas ranging from the unserious Green New Deal to the dangerous abolition of the electoral college, taxing unrealized gains, wealth tax, packing the Supreme Court, asserting...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 1, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Electoral College is undemocratic? Of course. That’s why it works: … there’s a very good reason why America doesn’t choose its chief executive by popular vote. That’s because democracy, at least in its pure form, doesn’t work. Sure, it might be a...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Origins of Progressive Agony by Victor Davis Hanson a the National Review: Progressives soon woke up to the reality that without power they were unable to stop Trump, and so they embraced any desperate means necessary to trap the ogre. The effort proved as...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 23, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From Michael Barone in The Washington Examiner, Democrats will do better playing by the rules than denouncing the rules: It’s suggested that the framers didn’t expect population to be so heavily concentrated in a few states. Actually, it was similarly concentrated in...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 3, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: The urban party has been getting beat up a lot, even before Trump’s surprising victory. Not only have the Democrats surrendered Congress; they now control just 13 state legislatures and 15...
