in , ,There are some interesting signs that the Biden victory and the Democratic Party’s current lunge to the far left may be an outlier among Western democracies, where leftist parties continue to lose ground. Progressive writers Ruy Teixeira and Brian Kaltis (both with the lefty Center for American Progress) note the unhappy (for them)  of elections earlier this week in the Netherlands:Look at the results from yesterday’s national elections in the Netherlands. The traditional parties of the left continued to lose ground—the Green Left, the Socialist Party and the historically...…in , ,There are some interesting signs that the Biden victory and the Democratic Party’s current lunge to the far left may be an outlier among Western democracies, where leftist parties continue to lose ground. Progressive writers Ruy Teixeira and Brian Kaltis (both with the lefty Center for American Progress) note the unhappy (for them)  of elections earlier this week in the Netherlands:Look at the results from yesterday’s national elections in the Netherlands. The traditional parties of the left continued to lose ground—the Green Left, the Socialist Party and the historically...WW…

inCoca-Cola’s new motto was unveiled last week: “Have a Coke and some bile!” Or maybe “It’s the zeal thing!” “Things go better with woke?” 1989’s official slogan can also be modified to fit the times: “The official soft drink of summer (riot season).” And when can we get some Woke Zero?? And what’s all this about Mr. Potato Head going genderless? Mr. Coffee is going to be very upset. Meanwhile, if governors were corporate bonds, Cuomo would be downgraded to junk status, and Newsom would be put on the watch list. But then the Fed would buy them out—that’s what the Fed is for right now!These...…inCoca-Cola’s new motto was unveiled last week: “Have a Coke and some bile!” Or maybe “It’s the zeal thing!” “Things go better with woke?” 1989’s official slogan can also be modified to fit the times: “The official soft drink of summer (riot season).” And when can we get some Woke Zero?? And what’s all this about Mr. Potato Head going genderless? Mr. Coffee is going to be very upset. Meanwhile, if governors were corporate bonds, Cuomo would be downgraded to junk status, and Newsom would be put on the watch list. But then the Fed would buy them out—that’s what the Fed is for right now!These...WW…

in ,Forget court-packing, abolishing the electoral college, or adding Puerto Rico and DC as states to provide more Democrats in the Senate (which they’d like to abolish in any case if they could): their real target is the Constitution itself. Apparently it isn’t “living” enough for the left, so they want to kill it completely.The New Republic magazine makes this abundantly clear in an article just out called “.” Here is the relevant portion of this long and tedious article:Republicans haven’t flouted the constitutional order. They’ve made use of it. Things haven’t gone wrong because a...…in ,Forget court-packing, abolishing the electoral college, or adding Puerto Rico and DC as states to provide more Democrats in the Senate (which they’d like to abolish in any case if they could): their real target is the Constitution itself. Apparently it isn’t “living” enough for the left, so they want to kill it completely.The New Republic magazine makes this abundantly clear in an article just out called “.” Here is the relevant portion of this long and tedious article:Republicans haven’t flouted the constitutional order. They’ve made use of it. Things haven’t gone wrong because a...WW…