Sunday, January 5, 2025

 


There is now an interesting effort by people such as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to combine cultural conservatism and economic nationalism with the radical reform of government. That could be an appealing ideology for many voters who are frustrated by a government in which nothing seems to work that well.

On the other side, if Democrats do not learn some hard lessons from the poor governance in many blue cities and states, they will be seen as defending cultural elites, woke ideology and bloated, inefficient government. That might be a formula for permanent minority status.

-Fareed Zakaria in the WaPost

Friday, January 3, 2025

What This Year?

 To a great extent reading yr 2024 was Orwell, Fascism, and Dylan.  What or who will it be this year?