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While Senator Jesse Helms, who died in 2008, would have been scandalized by Trump, the two men shared many political attributes.
This question is not new. But in 2026, it is unavoidable, because the moral consensus that once restrained power has largely collapsed. When truth is abandoned, power rushes in to take its place.
Conservative Princeton University professor Robert P. George is warning the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement to jettison its growing bigot wing quickly before they destroy the ...
A little more than 10 years ago, Jack Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, wrote a prescient essay in Time that declared, “Today’s Republican Hardliners Aren’t ‘Conservatives’ — ...
A little more than 10 years ago, Jack Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, wrote a prescient essay in Time that declared, “Today’s Republican Hardliners Aren’t ‘Conservatives’ — ...
A little more than 10 years ago, Jack Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, wrote a prescient essay in Time that declared, “Today’s Republican Hardliners Aren’t ‘Conservatives’ — ...