Arthur Herman

Pulitzer Prize Finalist historian, NYT best selling author, CEO Freedom's Forge Solutions LLC. Senior Fellow, Civitas Institute. RT not =endorsement

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

What's the key difference between our two political parties? Republicans play politics, Democrats exercise power.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Oh, I think @HunterBiden is lining up for a shot at the White House in 2028.
Pis aller, as my French friends used to say. When you are a Biden who's $20 million in debt with no gainful employment, what else beckons?

[Roy Abrams @RQA]

@HunterBiden If you had a shred of respect for this country that you have exploited for decades for your own self-enrichment, you would have made yourself scarce after having gotten a blanket pardon for your crimes from your father. A minority in your position would be in prison if not dead.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Dignity is not a virtue that can be self-inflicted.
Those who like to think they have it, never do.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Sorry, she's not going to earn the title Conscience of the Senate for doing this.

[Roy Abrams @RQA]

No honor among thieves.

[Richard Reinsch @Reinsch84]

We need to prepare ourselves to embrace that the U.S. Supreme Court after getting race wrong in multiple ways is now affirming the color blind constitution.

Many will oppose it for the threat it represents to race based progressive interests.

But fortune favors those who will defend a constitution built on the reality of the human person.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Now he'll be reduced to doing podcasts from his basement.

[TonyWendice @tonywendice1954]

"Heroes" don't make $7m annually.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Profound thought. Perhaps too profound for social media alone.

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

The problem is that those two things are very often in conflict.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

A cool cat, no question.

[TonyWendice @tonywendice1954]

You cannot love Marco Rubio enough.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Must say this:
I don't think most Dems in Congress really want to be led around by the vicious semi-educated twerps who are their radical base. But they can't figure out how get out from under their whip hand.
So they go along not from conviction but cowardice.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

I was invited to speak at the Oxford Union on Joe McCarthy. I didn't. I said, "This House under no circumstances will hear me discourse on McCarthy and McCarthyism in a rigged debate."
I have my moments.

[Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv]

I preferred the Oxford Union when it was the playground of the indigenous English elite toff.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Wow. THAT'S what Edward R Murrow WISHED he'd done instead of that silly "Good night etc."
He's in my biography of Joe McCarthy, BTW. Not the most flattering portrait, I'd say.

[Bruce Wolf @BruceWolfChi]

How Cronkitian. Nothing, however, compares to me on the closing shot licking the tip of my left index finger and then flipping the script pages with my right hand.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Our Lawrence of Arabia.

[Bruce Wolf @BruceWolfChi]

Scott Pelley “in combat.” Ha! Now Brian Williams, there was a guy in combat.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Yes. His story on what it's like to serve in the French Foreign Legion, should be required watching in every journalism class.
Beau geste!

[Bruce Wolf @BruceWolfChi]

I hope Morley Safer is spared.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

David Brinkley for sure. Also Harry Reasoner.
It's when being a journalist also meant remaining human.
I miss Robert Trout, to be honest.

[Ed Morrissey @EdMorrissey]

I'd say @brithume, with maybe Peter Jennings, who usually seemed pretty unassuming. Hard to say about earlier generations. David Brinkley probably is in this conversation somewhere. Maybe Bernard Shaw, too?

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

"Darkest moment experienced on this planet."
Gee, I guess Auschwitz, Dachau, the Soviet gulag, and Mao's Great Leap Forward, all look like child's play compared to Trump's desire to build a ball room at the White House.
Glad these geniuses are there to get our priorities right.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

That makes it worse.

[Andrew Stuttaford @AStuttaford]

@ArthurLHerman You are too kind! He knows what he is doing...

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

He's lost. A lost soul, like so many in his party.
The moral compass got lost in a Woke fog, that drifted in (I'm sorry to say) from the American left.

[Nile Gardiner @NileGardiner]

Violent hate filled Islamist mobs however are completely okay with @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

I miss Robert Trout.
Hell, I'd settle for Hughes Rudd.

[Bruce Wolf @BruceWolfChi]

How many after Cronkite was he again?

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Works for me.

[David Hazony @davidhazony]

So now it’s “yes I called Bibi f’ing crazy but I meant it as a compliment” — did I get that right?

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

The Platner case is emblematic of the problem Democrats have right now.
They know these sick extremists can only hurt them, e.g. Hasan Piker, but they lack the guts to chase them out.
This is a moral failure as well as a political one.

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

I have to say, I *am* enjoying this.

Watching people who leveled spurious allegations of Nazism at everyone who they didn't like now have to publicly defend a man with a literal Totenkopf tattoo on his chest is pretty wonderful. Some deep, deep schadenfreude going on here.

[Arthur Herman @ArthurLHerman]

Graham Platner is clearly a very sick person.
What's also sick is that Democrats can't confront him for what he is, but have to rely on media leaks to get him out the race and out of their hair.
Bizarre!