JD Vance on Richard Nixon:
Nixon's coalition in '72 is actually durable and much more closely resembles the Trump coalition of 2024 than the Reagan coalition of '84.
What Reagan did in '84 was run up huge margins with white Americans, and of course he won a historic landslide. But the country is much less white today than it was in 1984.
Nixon's coalition was unbelievably durable through the demographic changes we've seen in the United States. Reagan probably could not have won his landslide in 2024. Richard Nixon maybe could have.
I think there's a very important political lesson in that for all of us in the Republican Party.
He was actually like a political genius.
โThe two major earthquakes that just hit the great people of Venezuela are both massive in scale and have left a devastating number of deaths. The U.S.A. stands ready, willing, and able to help!โ - President Donald J. Trump
@Midnight_JJ0 I feel many in the GOP are in the same bubble that Democrats were during the Biden administration. Democrats deluded themselves, now Republicans are deluding themselves.
๐จ๐ด Colombiaโs president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella says Colombia will join the Shield of the Americas on August 7.
He said the country will no longer be run by a regime complacent with narco-terrorism, and will now fight it directly.
@a_newsman I'll give the neocons credit, they learned the best way to get Trump on their side was through flattery, something John McCain was too stupid to figure out.
Watch this video. I've been here four times.
World-class airport, hospital, library, and national stadium (being built). Anyone noticing a trend in terms of public infrastructure?
๐จโก RAW VIDEO: I Warned Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson About Juneteenth Violence. He Ignored It. Chicago Paid the Price.
Last week, I warned Mayor Brandon Johnson that Juneteenth has historically been one of Chicago's most violent weekends and asked if he would accept President Trump's offer to help. He dismissed the warning, rejected the help, and called President Trump an "absolute miserable failure."
Then came the weekend: 8 murdered, 39 shot, including a Juneteenth mass shooting.
Today, I reminded the Mayor that I warned him this was coming and asked the question real Chicagoans are asking: after 8 murders and 39 shootings, who is the real miserable failure?
He never answered. Instead, he blamed everyone else.
I also asked why Chicago is down roughly 2,000 police officers while he and his wife, Stacy, are protected by a security detail of more than 150 officers. If Chicago is so safe, why not put some of those officers back on the streets to protect real Chicagoans?
When I kept pressing, Mayor Johnson tried to shut me down. I reminded him that I have First Amendment rights. His response: "You can just free yourself on out of here because I'm not answering anything else from you."
Then, when I exited the press room, four Chicago Police officers were waiting for me. In my opinion, that wasn't a coincidence. It was intimidation.
I warned him. He ignored it. Chicago paid the price. That's the opinion of this reporter.
If only taxpayers' wallets were protected from politicians and law-abiding citizens were protected from criminals. But that's not important to marxists like mayor jagoff.