Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Self-Serving "Opinion" in France: Donald Trump’s (or Netanyahu’s) policies are dictated by emotion, say French VIPs, while Emmanuel Macron’s are grounded in reason

 
One certain brand of politics is dictated by nothing other than emotions, many French VIPs assert, while a certain other brand is grounded in reason. 

It is Trump’s brand (and Netanyahu’s) that — by the sheerest of chances — falls into the first category, whereas it is Macron’s brand that—here, too, by the strangest of coincidences — falls into the second.
 
Geopolitical analyst Dominique Moïsi has just published a book … with an evocative title : Le triangle des passions du monde (which is a sequel to his previous book, La géopolitique de l’émotion). In Moïsi’s work … an occasionally pedantic intellectual veneer struggles to conceal a simplistic thesis: that the politics of Donald Trump (or those of Netanyahu) are dictated by emotions, whereas those of Emmanuel Macron are grounded in reason.

 … This anti-American — and, by extension, anti-Israeli — "tune" reigns supreme today, virtually unchallenged across the entire French media landscape. "The America of Omaha Beach exists no more!" declares Moïsi at the Ouest France daily, imagining a “Donald Trump strolling along the beaches of Normandy [who] would have reacted with a mixture of cynicism, vulgarity, and brutality, asking: 'But why did we spill American blood for this decadent continent—with its obsolete principles—which betrays us at every opportunity?'"  In truth, this portrayal of a cynical and brutal Trump reveals just as much about the passions driving this French geopolitical analyst and his colleagues — at the Quai d’Orsay and within the mainstream media — as it does about the actual object of their detestation.

 … If … Donald Trump’s United States acts in accordance with its own interests, it is because states — as everyone knows — have nothing but interests… Yet this did not prevent Trump from taking the risk of jeopardizing the American economy in a determined attempt to bring down the Mullahs’ regime — whereas Emmanuel Macron made a point of reassuring the Mullahs as early as February 28th that he had been unaware of the Israeli-American operation… out of courage, no doubt.

 … Indeed, France ultimately came around, nolens volens, to Donald Trump’s point of view, albeit without explicitly admitting it, needless to say. 
 … Yet this convergence of interests will not stop geopolitical analysts from continuing to mock Trump’s "vulgarity" and "brutality," driven as they are by their anti-American fervor and their loathing for both America's President and Israel's Prime Minister. 
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Myths of WWII: In fact, Churchill was "one of the most disliked and distrusted politicians of his age" while FDR was “a thoroughgoing Robespierre, a world revolutionary”

The title of a book review in The New York Times of a major history volume is called, teasingly and eye-openingly, Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II.

In “Advance Britannia,” Alan Allport shows the conflict from the perspective of England and its various colonies. As reviewed by Kevin Peraino (the author of “A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949”), Alan Allport's book shows how many instances of common knowledge about World War II turn out to be myths.

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely fought on “alone” after the fall of France, and second, that the New World ultimately came to the rescue of the Old.

The British prime minister Winston Churchill is the primary author of this narrative. In his memoirs, he claimed that not until Pearl Harbor had he recognized that Britain would survive the Nazi onslaught. With the United States finally involved, “we had won the war,” Churchill wrote. “The Empire would live.” Fighting alongside the Americans, he wrote, had proved “the greatest joy.”

Alan Allport skillfully subverts both these myths in “Advance Britannia,” the second volume of his elegant and unsparing history of London’s role in World War II. As he shows, Washington’s involvement was not an unqualified boon. Churchill had wanted Franklin D. Roosevelt’s help in Europe — not in the Pacific. Since their meeting aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in the summer of 1941, the American president had been urging Churchill to abandon Britain’s “backward colonial policy.” Compared with the conservative Churchill, Allport writes, Roosevelt was “a thoroughgoing Robespierre, a world revolutionary.”

Churchill’s “small island,” as the prime minister liked to call it, also never truly fought alone: To help pay for the war, it ruthlessly exploited its worldwide empire of more than 13 million square miles and 491 million people. Britain’s haughty imperiousness, along with the financial strain it caused, left the colonies vulnerable

 … Roosevelt’s intentions were not entirely pure either. … Again and again Washington clashed with London over policy in Asia and the Mediterranean. … By the final years of the war, Allport observes, the so-called special relationship had morphed into one of “patron and client.”

 … [In ADVANCE BRITANNIA: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945, the sequel to In the first volume in the series, “Britain at Bay”], Allport … overturns one piece of conventional wisdom after another — quarrelsome, occasionally, to a fault. 

Regarding myths in the first book, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft in his New York Times review of six years ago, 

Churchill’s ascent to power was as remarkable as it may have been providential, since in his 40 years in Parliament he had become one of the most disliked and distrusted politicians of his age. If he became an admired national leader it was “because he happened to fill a role that very badly needed filling at that moment.”

 … In fact, Franklin Roosevelt had met Churchill in 1918, and disliked him. He was now told by his ambassador in London, the horrible old corrupt anti-Semite and defeatist Joe Kennedy, that Churchill was useless and England was finished.

 … Allport calls Churchill “the most self-assertive, disputatious and dogmatic prime minister in history,” demonstrating that his military judgment before and during the war was often wildly wrong.

ADVANCE BRITANNIA: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 | By Alan Allport | Knopf | 631 pp. | $40

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Monday, April 06, 2026

The Shady Earnings of Innumerable Female VIPs on the Left

Wascally Orange Man Bad Is Wigging The Ewections!

Our ol' chum Damian Bennett has a lot to say (and quote) regarding the SAVE Act; America's Moon heritage; and, among various other subjects — and last but definitely not least — the shady earnings of innumerable female VIPs of the Left (from the Squad's members to BLM's founders).  

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Naughty Nat-ZEE Trump is up to his old tricks. Discombobulate him by SUPPORTING THE SAVE ACT! HAHAHA! You win by having him think he won! You are BRILLIANT! Resist by desist, win by give in; play to your strength, play dumb.

Remember, the fastest way to defeat Evil Orange Man Bad is to give him what he wants. Honest. Schumer attested.

Democrats Do Media Prep For November Losses:
Start here:
Not one of these predictions will prove true, but the predictors will insist Democrat election losses are proof positive midterms were rigged, because who wouldn't vote Democrat? [Pause.] Bueller? Bueller?
Greetings Fellow Selenites
Respect YOUR Moon heritage. Demand YOUR Moon rights. "Few people understand this historical nuance, but the indigenous people of the Moon are the 'Americans', a scrappy minority tribe from planet earth that first arrived on this desolate rock in earth-year 1969. We must respect these original settlers and their right to the land."

HANDS OFF THE OUR MOON, Earthbound green-eyed underachievers and Euro-wankers. 

Bah-bah-but what about the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, of which the United States is a signatory, that declares space is the "province of all mankind" and must be used for the benefit of all countries. You might recognize the old formulary -- America does the heavy lifting and invests blood and treasure and more treasure, after which the world pulls up its tuffet at the dessert buffet. The OST is overdue for a re-think. 

Vacationing Citizen Of Everywhere, Ketanji Brown Jackson! (BONUS: Jasmine Crockett 'Accomplished Black Women Earners' Pageant)
So stupid it's not funny it hurts.

Justice Jackson's Birthright Citizenship Comments Were A Total Disaster April 2, 2026
KBJ: "I was thinking, you know … I, a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It's allegiance, meaning, can they control you as a matter of law?" She continued: "I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen, to, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it." Then the kicker: "So there's this relationship based on — even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan, I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense. Is that the right way to think about it?"

What Jackson described isn't allegiance in any constitutional, historical, or even pedestrian sense of the word. It's basic jurisdictional law - the notion that when you're in a foreign country, local law applies to you.

The bright spot here is that if you have ambitions to sit on SCOTUS but are unconversant with law, the Constitution, do not understand legal theory, are not capably disquisitive, have a difficult time with concepts and analogy, but like to talk a lot -- well, despair NOT! KBJ is proof anyone -- ANYONE (preferably with "a pulse, a vagina, and black" -- can be elevated to the highest court in the land. Q: How does this Big STOO-pid rise to high office? On the heavy froth of lower stoo-pid:

JC: "The meltdown over Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is truly something EVERYONE needs to pay attention to. You see, as the first & only black woman to ever serve on the court, she had to be 10 times better than most… She continues to flex her brilliance in oral arguments & many dissents. 

Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It… if you have any questions… let’s talk about Senator, now Secretary Mullin… or please pull the resumes of some of the other justices before entering this chat… actually just don’t, it’s not a debate, these are FACTS (alternative facts = LIES)."


"Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It", like the below accomplished black woman (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):

‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard Reportedly Facing Eviction Over Back Rent Amid Lavish Spending Habits September 29, 2024
Henyard, dubbed by residents as “the worst mayor in America,” and her boyfriend Kamal Woods owe more than $3,300 in rent on a home they have been renting in the 14600 block of South Harvard for the past three years, FOX32 Chicago reported, citing copies of an eviction notice filed against the couple in Cook County Court. ... Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot previously investigated Henyard for her spending habits in the Village of Dolton... Lightfoot’s investigation into the town’s financial situation revealed ...Dolton’s general fund balance was $5.61 million in 2022, but by May 2024 the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million. Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers. One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023, on Amazon. Henyard most recently spent approximately $85,000 to throw a party that featured R&B singer Keke Wyatt and rapper J. Holiday last month. [Where is this accomplished black woman  today?]

Earned! Earned! Earned!

More earners! (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):
Earned! Earned! Earned! So many earners!

So many accomplished black women earners! (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):

[Florida Democratic congresswoman Sheila] Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of, essentially, laundering funds mistakenly paid by the state of Florida into a health agency her family owns and using that money to fund her own campaign for office.

Earned! Earned! Earned!

Oh, and another top earner (Check! Check! Check!):  
Earned! Earned! Earned!

MORE earners! (Check! Check! Check!): 
  1. Alleged year-long fraud scheme: Prosecutors say Mayor LaToya Cantrell and former NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie used public funds to cover salary, travel, and expenses for personal activities, often together at the Upper Pontalba apartment or on trips.
  2. Over 15,000 WhatsApp messages: The indictment alleges Cantrell and Vappie exchanged more than 15,000 messages, pictures, and audio clips in eight months, including instructions to intimidate subordinates, delete evidence, and lie to investigators.
  3. $70,000 in travel costs: Vappie allegedly accompanied Cantrell on at least 14 domestic and international trips, with city travel costs exceeding $70,000.
  4. Pressure on NOPD leadership: Prosecutors claim Cantrell pressured then–Interim NOPD Superintendent Michelle Woodfork to halt an internal investigation into Vappie, and later reassigned him to her detail despite findings against him.
  5. Obstruction and concealment: The indictment says both were warned their conduct was illegal, yet concealed records from a grand jury, falsely claimed use of disappearing messages before news broke, and manually deleted thousands of prior WhatsApp messages.
  1. Waiving of Executive Privilege: The Biden White House cleared the way for Willis’s team to interview former Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, which traditionally protects communications within the executive branch.
  2. Willis' office given $18 million in federal funding during the probe: The Biden Justice Department "invited" Willis to apply for a $2 million "sole-source" grant in 2022 while her investigation was accelerating. This was part of more than $18 million in federal funding her office received during her tenure.
  3. Direct Coordination with the J6 Committee: Internal communications reveal Willis’s office collaborated extensively with the Democrat-led House Jan. 6 Committee, appearing to receive "oral summaries" of witness testimony and access to committee documents in Washington, D.C.
  4. White House Meetings: Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade billed Fulton County for an "interview with DC/White House" in November 2022. Despite the billing, the county claimed Wade kept no records of what occurred during this interaction.
Earned! Earned! Earned!

Before the prog and karen blue meanies and race baiters/hustlers/grifters and the smear brigades cry 'RACIST!', please admit your nasty go-to smear does not change the "FACTS (alternative facts = LIES)". As Ms. Crockett attests, da facts am da facts.

Asshat Lawfare Rage On Parade
Just you wait, as the Democrats wish-cast themselves back in power, yeah -- just you wait.
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America's Herculean Efforts to Rescue a Downed U.S. Pilot in Iran Were Heralded in a WWII Joke from the 1940s

America's successful hunt for, and retrieval of, the pilot of a downed aircraft over Iran reminds me of a World-War-II era joke. 

As Short Mag Smile's Greater Lee describes the situation in 2026, 
a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper. 
Meanwhile, the Armchair Admiral points out that 
It’s a testament to the U.S. military that no amount of equipment is more valuable than a single airman’s life 
Both quotes come from Ed Driscoll's outstanding Instapundit post, to which various contributors at the blog have contributed with ever-more details. Do read the whole thing™. 

But there is nothing new under the sun here: this was already the case during World War II, as the following joke emphasizes. The joke, which was apparently shared by both sides (allies and axis), and among all national groups and by all army soldiers, goes as follows:
A regiment of soldiers (whose nationality hardly matters) becomes aware that in a forest close by is a large group of unknown troops. To find out whether they are friends or foes, i.e., what nationality they are, they decide to open fire on the woods. This is how they find out who the unseen troops are:

If the unseen troops fire back with single rifle shots, they are British;

If the unseen troops fire back with machine gun fire, they are German;

If the troops rush out at you, screaming like berserk madmen, they are Russian;

If there is no response whatsoever, if nothing happens at all, there is only one conclusion: they are, they must be, American. 

That is, nothing happens for five to ten minutes, and then suddenly your entire area is struck by an intense, an extensive, and a devastating artillery barrage.
Indeed, among the other perspectives in the aforementioned Instapundit post is that of Freight Alley's Craig Fuller, who goes back over 80 years in time to point out that 
During World War II, … German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans. 

Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available. 

This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces. 

In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment. 

This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead. 

It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand. Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.  
Indeed, it turns out that the Germans were complaining that the ways that "die Amis" were fighting was totally unfair.

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In the Original Hebrew, the 4th Book of the Bible has a Far More Exciting Title — "In the Wilderness"


Hence the Subtitle of Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series volume on Numbers: "God and Man in the Wilderness."

It is the fourth book in Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series on the first five books of the Torah, following those on Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy… 

As someone who was never particularly religious — although I was a big New Age fan in my teens and twenties (so much that I eventually minored in Religious Studies of comparative religions) — I started reading the first books in Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series five years ago. To say the very least, Dennis Prager's Genesis — subtitled God, Creation, and Destruction — is eye-opening.
The Book of Numbers—“In the Wilderness” in the original Hebrew—is the fourth book of the Bible. Among the many compelling issues addressed in this volume are the following: 
  • Doubting God. 
  • What produces faith—miracles or effort? And if effort, what efforts work? 
  • Arguing with God. 
  • Ingratitude as a source of evil. 
  • Why only men could be priests. 
  • Why the conscience is not morally reliable. 
  • Is fanaticism ever justified? 
  • Is there luck in life, or is everything determined by God’s will?
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Friday, April 03, 2026

Radio Courtoisie: Seven Months From the Mid-Terms, What Is in Store for the Donald Trump Administration in the Election?

Seven months from the mid-terms, a group of Frenchmen, Americans, Danes, and dual citizens discussed together on a French radio outlet about the concerns of the November vote for the Trump administration.

I appear between 44:55 and 53:53 — not in the studio but from a Colorado hotel I was awoken at at 4:40 a.m. (12:40 pm in Paris) during a road trip after visiting CPAC in Dallas — to talk mainly about Greenland and said 2026 edition of CPAC. (I am also mentioned after 55:15.) 
Le 1 avril 2026, Evelyne Joslain, assistée d’Eric, reçoit :

Thème : «Thème : “L’Amérique à 7 mois des élections de mi-mandat » Patron d'émission du Libre journal du Nouveau Monde à Radio Courtoisie, Évelyne Joslain est l'auteur d'une poignée de livres sur les États-Unis et l'Occident. Parmi ceux-ci, son chef d'œuvre est paru il y a un an. 

Voici la revue de livre de La Révolution Culturelle.

Cliquez sur le lien pour entendre l'émission d'une heure et demie…

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Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Forcing a father to bury his son alive: Coercion, terror, and violence — Mao's Communist Party engineered the worst catastrophe in China’s history

The worst catastrophe in China’s history, and one of the worst anywhere, was the Great Famine of 1958 to 1962, 
wrote Frank Dikötter, the author of “Mao’s Great Famine”, in The New York Times 15 years ago,
and to this day the ruling Communist Party has not fully acknowledged the degree to which it was a direct result of the forcible herding of villagers into communes under the “Great Leap Forward” that Mao Zedong launched in 1958.

 … When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, the local boss, Xiong Dechang, forced his father to bury his son alive on the spot. The report of the investigative team sent by the provincial leadership in 1969 to interview survivors of the famine records that the man died of grief three weeks later.

 … The term “famine” tends to support the widespread view that the deaths were largely the result of half-baked and poorly executed economic programs. But the archives show that coercion, terror and violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward. 

Shouldn't Dikötter's op-ed be mandatory reading for all students (and their… teachers!) in America — and, indeed, the world? High school as well as university students? 

Whatever the case, fifteen years later, Dikötter has now written a book on the matter (the latest, actually, of several). In a New York Times book review on RED DAWN OVER CHINA: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity (Bloomsbury), the NYT's international edition has entitled the Gary J. Bass piece How Mao kept on marching (you will understand the importance of this when you get to the end of this post).
Frank Dikötter [is] renowned for writing an important trilogy of books about Mao’s reign over China, digging in far-flung archives to document the oppression and mass atrocities of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Although Chinese authorities continue to deny or downplay the grim realities of their past, Dikötter functions as something like a one-man truth commission, relentlessly excavating horrors that took tens of millions of lives.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” Dikötter, a historian at the University of Hong Kong and Stanford’s Hoover Institution, delivers a powerful, engrossing and opinionated prequel to his trilogy, showing how the Communists battled their way to power in the decades after World War I.

 … So how did this tiny band take over a country as enormous as China? Dikötter’s answer is blunt: “The key word is violence, and a willingness to inflict it.” Far from an overwhelming mass movement that inevitably swept to power, Dikötter retells the Chinese Revolution as an unlikely event, propelled less by popular support than by unyielding cruelty and not a little bit of luck.

Mao also had outside help, a common feature of civil wars. Although the Chinese revolutionaries styled themselves as representing the authentic will of the people, Dikötter argues that on several occasions their movement was shaped and saved by foreigners — in particular, the Soviet Union

 … Dikötter spends little time on the party’s socioeconomic or cultural blandishments, instead concentrating on its violence and indoctrination.

In the areas they conquered, Dikötter writes, Communists imposed “a state of terror,” executing local officials and those considered “politically unreliable.” 

 … Dikötter is withering on credulous Americans who misjudged the Communists

 … Ending his book with the conquest of Tibet in the early ’50s, Dikötter ominously writes: “Only Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan still eluded the reach of the Chinese Communist Party.”
As it happens, you can hardly go far in the mainstream media without bringing in some type of anti-Americanism or TDS: In the original American edition of The New York Times, Gary J. Bass manages to put the onus not on the China communists' atrocities but on the CCP's outside help. Is it because he is the William P. Boswell professor of world politics of peace and war at Princeton University that the original title of his book review reads as follows? One Thing Japan, America and the Soviets Did Together? Help Mao Win. Believe it or not, Gary J. Bass goes on to end said book review with condemnation of (who else?)… Donald Trump. 
 
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

What is true is that the United States is going to war WITH Israel, not FOR it

Among the few non-deranged leftists at The New York Times is Bret Stephens, who writes such columns as: For Once, We Fight With an Equal Ally —

For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo war comes to mind in the second.

The war against Iran is different.

 … This may be the first time since the Second World War that Washington has had an equal partner with which to share the burdens of war

 … In the case of Iran, the idea that crippling its capacity to threaten its neighbors is some sort of purely Israeli interest is belied by every Iranian missile or drone that falls on Dubai, Doha, Manama or Riyadh, not to mention U.S. and NATO military bases in the region. 

 … What is true is that the United States is going to war with Israel, not for it. That’s something many Americans, MAGA-type conservatives most of all, often claim to want: an ally that pulls its weight, shares the risk and contributes meaningfully to victory.

 … Since when, one wonders, has the Pentagon or the C.I.A. had such help from our resourceful friends in, say, Paris?
By all means, read the NYT's Bret Stephens columns regularly, such as The War Is Going Better Than You Think and Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor. (Toda al hahiper Insta-kishur, Sarah.)
President Trump is being criticized from many quarters for his decision to join Israel in a war to topple the Iranian regime … The reasons vary.

 … But one country where the United States and Israel are garnering broad support is the same country that’s being bombed.

“Everyone is joyful; it is one of the best days of probably 95 percent of Iranians’ lives,” one Iranian resident of the city of Karaj told The Wall Street Journal about [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei’s death. “We bolted outside and shouted from the top of our lungs and laughed and danced with our neighbors,” a woman in Tehran named Sara told The Times. 

 … Iran does not exist in a geopolitical vacuum: With Moscow and Beijing, it is a core member of the axis of autocracies that threaten the democratic world broadly. … If Tehran falls out of the axis, our remaining adversaries can only be weaker.

 … the United States and Israel have taken considerable military and political risks to do the right thing. And that’s no small thing.

They have rid the world of an odious tyrant, and of several layers of his equally odious deputies. It’s odd that the same people who fault Trump for divorcing U.S. foreign policy from its democratic values now fault him for going to war for the sake of advancing democratic values.

 
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Do You Know What Words Abraham Lincoln Used to Refer to the Democrats, President Trump? The Locofocos

Did you know that in the 1850s, members of the Democrat party were referred to regularly as fire eaters or as locofocos? 

It kind of sounds like my calling them drama queens, with BDS and TDS being replaced by LDS (Lincoln Derangement Syndrome), does it not? 

Just as one of this blog's most prominent posts over the past 20 years explained how we are (now) living in The Era of the Drama Queens.

As talk over the past four or five years has warned of a second civil war, doesn't it sound like the Democrats have not changed an iota since the 1850s and perhaps even since the party's foundation by Andrew Jackson?

That, after all, was the thesis of Dinesh D'Souza's book and film on The Secret History of the Democratic Party (in which King Andrew the First plays a prominent role). 

Moreover, as I have written before, prior to his becoming the Republican Party's 1860 candidate, Abraham Lincoln held a speech in February 1860 (indeed, his Cooper Union speech galvanized the Republicans to eventually choose him as their candidate) in which he told his audience how he would address himself to them as if they were composed of Southerners and Democrats:

  … when you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws. You will grant a hearing to pirates or murderers, but nothing like it to [Republicans]. In all your contentions with one another, each of you deems an unconditional condemnation of [Republicanism] as the first thing to be attended to. Indeed, such condemnation of us seems to be an indispensable prerequisite — license, so to speak — among you to be admitted or permitted to speak at all. Now, can you, or not, be prevailed upon to pause and to consider whether this is quite just to us, or even to yourselves? Bring forward your charges and specifications, and then be patient long enough to hear us deny or justify.
How many democrats amd MSM outlets in this day and age are willing to be "patient … to hear [Republicans] deny or justify"? Don't CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times deem "an unconditional condemnation of [Republicanism or Trumpism] as the first thing to be attended to"? "Reptiles, outlaws, pirates, murderers"… How often have Republicans been called (domestic) terrorists in the past years?  (And in the years, in the decades, before that?).

Doesn't Lincoln's Cooper Union speech sound like something a Donald Trump or a George Bush could legitimately say (obviously, in different words) in the 21st century? (Thanks for the Instalink, Sarah.)

Locofocos. Fire eaters. Drama Queens. 

As their name implies, the leftists' raison d'être is to constantly search for melodrama, to find offense in everything, and to lie, or at least to exaggerate, to the very limits of reason (the first example in more recent times that comes to mind being Ed Driscoll's observation that every Republican candidate since the 1940s has been likened to none other than Adolf Hitler).

(This led to another of my posts on — present-day — leftists: The Leftist Worldview in a Nutshell: A world of Deserving Dreamers Vs. Despicable Deplorables.)

The hysterics of such locofocos is what leads to the Democrats' creation of the Ku Klux Klan, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, along with opening fire on Fort Sumter. And by the way, before you mention racism, don't forget: the Southern slave states of the 19th century were all solidly Democrat, just as later, the (same) Jim Crow states of the 20th century were all solidly Democrat.

In that perspective, another lie, as we have seen, is that, contrary to modern leftists' contention that the two parties have switched since the Civil War era, such people as Dinesh D'Souza and Prager University's Carol Swain have demonstrated that during the so-called Big Switch, only one single solitary Dixiecrat in fact joined the Republicans while in the very first election after the Nixon/Ford administrations, and their alleged winning "Southern Strategy," the South was swept by the Democratic nominee, Jimmy Carter.

Again, as I have written before, we have all heard that the debate about what caused secession and ergo the Civil War: Was It Slavery and/or States' Rights? Wasn't It Rather Something Else — the Election of a Ghastly Republican to the White House? The victory of such a despicable being made the Democrats' locofocos go bat-shit crazy and proceed to tear the country for the next four years apart… That wouldn't sound like the 2016 election (or the 2020 election, or the 2024 election) now, would it?

Related: • What Caused Secession and Ergo the Civil War? Was It Slavery and/or States' Rights? Or Wasn't It Rather Something Else — the Election of a Ghastly Republican to the White House? 
• During the Winter of 1860-1861, Did the South's Democrats Obtain Their Aim — the Secession of 7 Slave States — Thanks to Elections Filled with Stealth, Lies, Voter Fraud, Intimidation, Violence, and Murder? 
• Wondering Why Slavery Persisted for Almost 75 Years After the Founding of the USA? According to Lincoln, the Democrat Party's "Principled" Opposition to "Hate Speech" 
• The Greatest Myth in U.S. History: Yes, the Civil War Era Did Feature Champions of States' Rights, But No, They Were Not in the South (Au Contraire) 
• A Century and Half of Apartheid Policies: From Its 1828 Foundation, the Democrat Party Has Never Shed Its Racist Past 
• Harry Jaffa on the Civil War Era: For Democrats of the 21st Century as of the 19th, "the emancipation from morality was/is itself seen as moral progress" 
• Why Does Nobody Ever Fret About Scandinavia's — Dreadful — 19th-C Slavery Conditions? 
• The Confederate Flag: Another Brick in the Leftwing Activists' (Self-Serving) Demonization of America and Rewriting of History 
• How to Prevent America from Becoming a Totalitarian State 
• Inside of a month, Democrats have redefined riots and election challenges from the highest form of patriotism to an attack on democracy — And by “democracy”, they mean the Democrat Party
• Why They Don't Tell You the Whole Truth:  The 1619 Project Summarized in One Single Sentence

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"I Don't Want My Children Growing Up in a Muslim Denmark": Anti-Trump Election Backfires for Danish PM As Her Social Democrats Suffer Worst Election Results in 123 Years

Fresh with her new heroic status as a Danish prime minister willing to stand up to Donald Trump, Mette Frederiksen announced fresh elections for March 24, but as Tuesday's results came in, the effort was seen to have backfired as her Social Democrats suffered their worse election defeat in over a century. 

Needless to say, this should not in any way be taken as a pro-Trump measure, given that every single politician, from far left to far right, has condemned, occasionally in the vilest of terms, POTUS 45 & 47's desire to acquire the Danish island of Greenland, as have som 90% of the population. Still, the voters did see through one politician's (none other than the PM's) desire to politicize the current animosity towards America.

A different reason for the trouncing of the leftists is at the bottom of this post.

From the Wall Street Journal (tak til Vincent Bourdonneau): 
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen led her party to its worst election in more than 120 years on Tuesday, a vote that forces one of Europe’s most prominent leaders into difficult negotiations to secure a third term. 
But even at a low 22%, her Social Democrats are still the largest of numerous parties, so the WSJ's headline is that Danish Prime Minister [Is] in Limbo After Poor Election Result. Indeed, Mette Frederiksen has asked for four more years at the helm of the Scandinavian nation, and that is hardly unlikely to happen if the right-leaning parties cannot agree on some sort of coalition.
The Social Democrats received roughly 22% of the vote, down from 27.5% in 2022, their worst result since 1903. The party is still Denmark’s largest, and Frederiksen may retain power, but she falls short of being able to form a center-left coalition. 

 … Frederiksen, who became Denmark’s youngest-ever prime minister in 2019 at age 41, campaigned on her ability to stand up to Trump and provide stable leadership in a turbulent world. She also ran on proposals to introduce a wealth tax, improve welfare for retirees and deport more migrants convicted of violent crimes.  

Frederiksen may secure a majority coalition and hold on to power through tough negotiations ahead. With this election, the 179 seats in the Danish parliament will be distributed among 12 political parties.

In that process, a likely kingmaker will be former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, whose centrist party, the Moderates, now holds decisive seats that prevent either the center-left or the center-right from forming an outright majority coalition. Rasmussen was foreign minister in the departing government, a coalition of three parties across the political center.

What explains the losses of the Social Democrats contrasted with the meteoric rise of Denmark's far right, writes Kasper Fast, is the amount of immigrants to the suburbs of Copenhagen. "My children shall not grow up in a Muslim Denmark !" was the cry from the voters.

Just like in America and Britain, Danish citizens are fed up with immigrants, legal or otherwise, who commit all kinds of crimes; and during the campaign the Danish People's Party's top honcho, Morten Messerschmidt, never failed to point out various individuals who had committed sometimes heinous crimes and who and been neither jailed nor removed from the country.

DF stormer frem på Vestegnen: »Mine børn skal ikke vokse op i et muslimsk Danmark«

På Vestegnen er Dansk Folkeparti stormet frem ved valget, mens Socialdemokratiet samtidig er gået markant tilbage. Ifølge Poul Gaardbo (DF) fra Brøndby er de mange indvandrere på Vestegnen en stor del af forklaringen.

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