Political activist, consultant, columnist, Director Texas Liberty Foundation, Chair. Center for Foreign & Defense Policy, former Chair Republican Liberty Caucus
The best way for Republicans to restore the image of the party and insure that it has a future is to take the lead in convicting Trump for his role in inspiring insurrection.
If you find yourself going beyond policy disagreements with your political opponents and have to portray them as the worst possible human beings, essentially inhuman monsters, there is something very wrong with your politics.
For those wondering why Trump didn’t pardon himself, it’s because he truly believes that he did not do anything wrong. That arrogance may be his downfall.
There are people who are just pro-violence and anti-government. They don’t need a particular political credo and will riot with antifa or with MAGAs and can fit in with both crowds. The presence a few of them at a riot does not make it an AntiFa event. It just makes it a riot.
Libertarians can reason with two corrupt political parties and make some progress. There is no reasoning with a populist mob screaming for dictatorship.
Voluntary choice of an individual or a company to not to assist in spreading your message is not censorship. Forcing them to help you spread your message actually is. Freedom of speech includes freedom not to speak and freedom of association includes freedom of disassociation.
It bears repeating that Trump is not the real problem in the nation and Allen West is not the real problem in Texas. The real problem is the segment of the population which supported them and supports authoritarianism.
This is the unparalleled level of stupidity of Trump supporters. They are now arguing that because Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, since he won in 2016 he must have won this election by a landslide. SMDH
Why would the process of vote tabulation require a “supercomputer” when tabulating votes is a simple task that can be performed by any PC? Seems most trump supporters are luddites so rumors about a malevolent supercomputer with a codename feed right into their paranoia.