“When I sat down with Brian Kemp at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta earlier this week…. I was intrigued during our hour-long conversation to hear the 62-year-old governor draw some distinctions between his own brand of Republican politics and those of the current leader and his presumptive heir, J.D. Vance” - The Dispatch
“Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing of the court since last year. The prior low approval rating was 39% measured a year ago.” - Gallup
“Inanity isn’t confined to one side of the political aisle. Tuesday’s congressional hearing, where Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan defended the Supreme Court’s budget request for additional security, made that clear.” - CPost
“Those of us who retain the skepticism about ambitious government that once seemed to define the right are ceaselessly told that we are obsolete. We do not, the cliché has it, know ‘what time it is.’” - Cranach
“Today that “fusionism” is being challenged by a new kind of conservatism that favors big government, a centrally controlled economy, and nationalistic populism. As Republicans try to sort out what kind of conservatives they are, an important strain of the coalition that Reagan brought together risks being overlooked: the cultural conservatives.” - Gene Veith
“this is not a verse giving us a blueprint for modern nation states’ immigration policy. Piper didn’t say it was. This verse is not saying that nations don’t have a right to enforce their borders. Piper didn’t say that it was. This is a verse giving a general principle—God wants you to treat the outsider well—and giving Israel a specific reminder for why they should do that.” - P&D
“The White House Religious Liberty Commission was right to remove a member who derailed hearings with anti-Semitic antics” - World
“Both sides hate the ‘establishment.’… A related commonality is both side’s hatred of institutions. The Left is skeptical of institutions like marriage, parenthood, laws, institutional religion, corporations, the government.
“In a recent column for The New York Times, Ezra Klein proclaims that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have killed the ‘vibe shift.’ The cultural momentum that conservatives gained post-pandemic, particularly in the last year of the Biden presidency, is gone, Klein writes.
“To understand my view, we must go to the roots of identity politics. Liberal political organizer L.A. Kauffman defines the concept as ‘the belief that identity itself—its elaboration, expression, or affirmation—is and should be a fundamental focus of political work.’” - CToday
