NATION
Read The Court Transcripts From The Major Election Integrity Trial In Georgia
Rep. Higgins: Stand Your Ground, “The Feds Are Staging a Civil War”
Fulton County DA’s Case Against Trump Just Got Really Messy
Who Will Deliver Justice to Our Service Members?
University of Wisconsin Law School Mandates ‘Re-Orientation’ DEI Training for First-Year Students
BORDER CRISIS: DOGS ABANDONED BY MIGRANTS
The elites agreed on the preeminent value of technology, cosmopolitanism, consumerism, preventing global warming, and globalism. Economic inequality was largely an afterthought, replaced by a consensus concern that the elites do more to bring promising minorities into the elite.
By contrast, religion, family life, traditions, ethnic purity, cultural continuity, stability, and the preservation of middle-class wealth and employment were completely anathema. These concerns of the tradition-oriented middle and working classes have been either ignored altogether or the object of hostility and ridicule.
For the same reasons, when Trump came along, he was also an object of hostility and ridicule. While Trump hailed from the ranks of the elite, his style was middle-class, as were his loyalties. His enemies saw him as a traitor to his class, and his supporters saw him as a champion of the voiceless.
For the elite, Obama was the archetype: cosmopolitan, minority, educated, and articulate. He was a progressive global citizen, but he was also willing to keep his hands off free trade, Wall Street, open borders, and an interventionist American foreign policy. His expansion of American intrigue overseas and the slow recovery from the 2008 Great Recession hardly dented his approval. Elites did well as the stock market soared, and Obama’s mouthing of the right words on social issues placated his ordinary supporters, even when other aspects of his presidency deviated from leftist orthodoxy.
WORLD
Germany should hold ‘Dexit’ vote on leaving EU, says AfD leader
US Welcomes Türkiye’s approval of Sweden’s entrance into NATO
Iran’s Regime Effectively Ends Election Weeks Before Voting Day
Kim Jong-un nostalgic for Trump-era diplomacy: Seoul defense chief
HEMISPHERE
Pierre Poilievre BLASTS the World Economic Forum (YT)
Milei Forced To Backtrack on Argentina State Oil Co. Privatization
Peruvian Gold Mining Gangs Launch Increasingly Brazen Attacks
HEALTH
The Insane Benefits of Berberine: It’s More Than Just a Weight Loss Supplement | Dr. Steven Gundry (YT)
MACRO
Weekly Market Pulse: Is The Recession Finally Here?
Is it the beginning of the end for low-cost travel?
MICRO
Biden adds to his ‘Bidenomics’ flop: This new rule throws wrench in popular gig economy. (Mainstream)
‘Lord, You Told Me to Do This’: Pastor Defends Taking $1.3M From Failed Crypto
Ace Hardware – Why They’re Successful (YT)
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Remembering When TDS Ruled Pop Culture
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