But it’s worth noting, because successive generations of Democrats have continued Jackson’s practice of trying to discredit nonwhite opponents by portraying them as inauthentic. Today
Author Shelby Steele, one of America’s most insightful commentators on race relations, notes that whites have been looking for some time for a black leader who has credibility within the black communi...
As should be obvious by now, the Nazi race laws were the precise equivalent of the Democratic Party’s race laws. It isn’t merely that the former provided a precedent for the latter; the two sets of la...
As first lady, she claimed to know nothing about the Travelgate firings when the evidence showed she ordered them herself. Later, on the 2008 campaign trail, she repeatedly told a story about how she...
An indignant Jackson and his supporters formed the Democratic Party, while his opponents coalesced into a rival Whig Party. These were the two parties that dominated American politics for the next few...
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Yet counterproductive though the black shift of political allegiance has proven over the past seventy-five years, I cannot entirely blame black Americans for making it. They were under extreme economi...
With Hitler, too, we see a dedicated socialist who, shortly after assuming the leadership of the German Workers’ Party, changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). In sta...
What really matters is that never before in history has America had a con artist as its chief executive and commander in chief. And we may be getting ready to anoint another in immediate succession. O...
What intrigued me most was how one can get away with such a big lie. The answer is you have to dominate all the large megaphones of the culture, from academia to the movies to the major media.
We can see this quite clearly if we follow the fortunes of Hillary Clinton. She is a woman who has clearly had fortuna on her side, and in addition, she and her husband have ingeniously and ruthlessly...
Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.
This is an election about Hillary. She is the one who embodies the debased soul of the Democratic Party. And she is the corrupt, exasperating, tenacious, malign spirit looming over the United States i...
This enforced subordination, according to the progressive black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, was the true meaning of slavery. But there was . . . a real meaning to slavery different from that we may...
The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation’s wealth.
The maxim, every man for himself, he writes, embraces the whole moral code of a free society. The harsh competition of capitalism, Fitzhugh says, benefits the few and the strong while crushing the man...
The full story, however, is told in Steve Inskeep’s recent book Jacksonland, which I will rely on for my subsequent account. Jackson managed national security affairs in a way that matched his interes...
The cover-up is the work of progressives in education and the media. The progressives are part of the Democratic team; they are, in fact, the ideologues of the party. They have been given a very speci...
The coup failed. Booth did kill Lincoln, who became the first president in American history to be assassinated. But the co-conspirators did not kill Vice President Johnson or Secretary of State Seward...
Starting in the Clinton era and continuing through George W. Bush’s two terms, progressive activists mounted direct pressure—either in the form of public protest or lawsuits—against banks. This was ai...