We've All Been Wrong- I Certainly Have-

Yet When The Hour Of Decision Arrives, It Turns Out That Many Conservatives Care As Little As Ever About Administrative Skill And Executive Accomplishment. Our Party And Our Movement Overwhelmingly Respond To Symbolic Cues. Sarah Palin Is Exciting And Appealing. But What Kind Of Executive Is She? None Of Us Have Even The Remotest Idea.

I Keep Telling My American Friends, "if You Think Of Donald Trump As Only Something That Is Happening Inside The United States, You're Missing It." Because There Are Trump-like Events Happening Across The Western World, In Warsaw Pact Countries, In France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands. As We Speak, The Second-largest Party In The Dutch Legislature - Who's More Level-headed Than The Dutch? - Is Geert Wilders's Party, Which Is A Very Trump-like Party, And They've Got 33 Out Of 150 Seats.

Modern Authoritarianism, As It's Growing Inside Europe And Now Coming To The United States, Rests Much More On The Use Of Power To Protect The Guilty Than To Persecute The Innocent. And Its Motive Is Not Crazy Totalitarian Utopianism, It's Motive Is Repressive Kleptocracy. To Steal And To Use The Powers Of The State To Protect Theft.

If We Say Something Often Enough, We Come To Believe It. We Don't Usually Delude Others Until After We Have First Deluded Ourselves.

By Abrogating All Moral Standards In Their War Against Israel, Arab And Muslim Leaders Initiated A Process Of Moral Collapse That Has Ended By Soaking Their Own Societies In Blood. The Terror They Intended To Inflict Only Upon Others Has Rebounded With A Hundred Times Greater Horror Upon Their Own Lands.