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Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis

Posted on | July 18, 2026 | No Comments

Sometimes I have to remind people that I actually knew Sam Francis who, in recent years, has been recognized as a sort of prophet who foresaw the rise of what has become known as the MAGA movement.

Most of Sam’s younger admirers, knowing of his long battle against neoconservatives — which came into focus with his criticism of the 1991 Iraq war — are not exactly friends of Israel. What many of them may not realize is that Sam made a remarkable contribution to an understanding of the Middle East conflict, which his neoconservative opponents sought to erase from memory once he fell out with them during the first Bush presidency. Good luck finding an online copy of Sam Francis’s 1981 policy paper, “The Soviet Strategy of Terror,” which had an enormous influence on the Reagan administration’s foreign policy. Sam was at one point a research fellow for the Heritage Foundation, which published that paper, but once he was cast out for being too politically incorrect, Heritage effectively “de-published” it, removing it from their website, a deliberate insult they have not repented more than 20 years after Sam Francis died.

Years ago, I obtained a samizdat copy of “The Soviet Strategy of Terror,” but it’s packed away in my papers somewhere in the garage, so I can’t quote it, however the key insight is this: The Soviet Union, in its worldwide warfare against the West, sponsored terrorist activity as part of a general strategy. In other words, terrorism wasn’t merely a tactic, but had deep roots in the Communist worldview, by which its use was justified, and was employed to destabilize conditions in such a way as to foment revolutionary upheaval and advance Soviet interests.

What is terrorism? It is the use of violence for political purposes, and is akin to guerrilla warfare — “insurgency,” as we are now wont to call it. Guerrilla warfare is used by those who, unable to defeat a stronger opponent through open combat between regular military forces, engage in raids and ambushes, then return to concealment among the civilian population. The distinction between guerrilla warfare and an organized terrorist campaign can be difficult to make. For example, during the Vietnam War, sometimes the Vietcong acted as guerrilla combatants and other times they were engaged in terrorism.

A Vietcong terrorist is executed in Saigon, 1968

As someone has remarked, the lesson of the Spanish Civil War is that if you think you’ve killed enough Communists, you’re wrong. And at the same time America was fighting Communists in Vietnam, the Soviet Union was sponsoring terrorism against Israel. This relationship began when Egyptian dictator Gamal Nasser became a client of the Soviets in the 1950s. Under Nasser’s sponsorship, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was created in 1964 with Ahmed Shuqeiri as its leader. However, after Egypt was humiliated in the 1967 Six-Day War, the PLO came under the control of Yassir Arafat, whose Fatah organization had been engaged in terrorist attacks on Israel since 1964. (You can read the relevant history from Discover the Networks, which is far more informative than Wikipedia.) It was the Six-Day War that put Israel in possession of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the entirety of the Sinai peninsula. When Egypt and the other Arab powers counterattacked in 1973 (the Yom Kippur War), Israel successfully defended itself, and was thus dealing from a position of strength when it agreed, in the 1978 Camp David Accords, to return the Sinai to Egypt in a historic peace agreement. Despite making peace with Egypt, however, Israel was still viewed as a target by the Soviets, which continued sponsoring terrorism by the PLO.

The very concept of a “Palestinian” nationality is an invention of Soviet-sponsored propaganda. Those of us old enough to remember the 1970s recall the Soviet “brushfire” strategy, of sponsoring Communist insurgencies all over the world in so-called “wars of national liberation,” of which the terrorist campaign against Israel was just one example.

The history of the so-called “Red-Green Alliance” between leftists in the West and radical Islamists has been recounted by Eli Lake. What actually unites them, of course, is their anti-American fanaticism which is itself a legacy of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War (which did not end until I was in my 30s), there was always a non-coincidental convergence of Soviet propaganda themes and the rhetoric of leftists in the West.

One of the things I learned during the years in the mid-1990s when I went from being a yellow-dog Democrat to being a “right-wing extremist” was passed along to me by a former member of Rep. Larry McDonald‘s staff: Just because the Soviet Union collapsed did not mean that Communism was no longer a threat. Communism’s friends in the West didn’t just strike the tent and go home in defeat when the Berlin Wall fell and Gorbachev was ousted in Moscow. The radicalism of the “free Palestine” mobs is not actually a protest against Israeli policy or U.S. policy because, to invoke one famous maxim of the Left, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

It is unfortunate that some of our friends on the Right have allowed their opposition to neoconservative interventionism (“forever wars”) to lead them into a de facto alliance with the pro-Hamas leftists who portray Israel as the villain in the Middle East. There has been a lot of divisive online conflict between “America First” activists (including some I consider my friends) and the more outspoken Zionists in the Republican coalition (also including some of my friends). My own Zionist credentials being indisputable, I lament both this intramural conflict itself and the excessive vehemence of the rhetoric involved. “Mark Levin said this!” “Tucker Carlson said that!” Is this actually an argument about policy, or is it something else? Regardless of what anyone may say, I cannot help but ask: Cui bono? Who benefits from divisions within the Right?

There is a reason why you rarely see me jumping into these arguments to denounce people by name. Sam Francis got purged from the Official Conservative Movement™ as a result of foreign-policy quarrels in the 1990s, and the only reason we are where we are now — i.e., with the populist grassroots energy of MAGA now the dominant force in Republican politics — is because some of us were wise enough to keep our powder dry, to be discreet in our communications, and to maintain our focus on truly important issues. There have been times when I’ve foolishly lost my temper, or otherwise strayed from the advice I give others in these matters. Nevertheless, I continue to urge patience, and to counsel against joining circular firing squads. Always aim downrange. There are too many obvious enemies on the Left for us to waste ammunition fighting amongst ourselves. But you can see that Communists are still what they always were, even if they call themselves “progressives” now. They still embrace the same terrorist strategy that the Soviets pursued for decades. Let us focus on exposing them and defeating them, and not let ourselves get distracted from that mission.



 

Category: History, Israel, Terrorism

Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official

Posted on | July 18, 2026 | No Comments

Arizona Democrat ‘Brianna’ Westbrook

Just a typical Democrat in 2026:

A former Arizona Democratic congressional candidate was arrested after allegedly forcing entry into an ex-partner’s home with a knife and tape, then telling police the confrontation was a “misunderstanding” over a BDSM scene the victim denies ever agreeing to, according to court documents.
Phoenix police responded to a call on July 10 at 6 p.m. from a woman who said her ex-partner, Brianna Westbrook, had come to the door, and that she opened it believing it was her son, according to court documents. Instead, she found Westbrook holding a knife in one hand and black tape in the other, the documents state. The two wrestled until Westbrook pushed the victim onto a couch and told her “not to move,” with the victim to begin screaming, police said.
Westbrook is a transgender rights activist and was a former vice chair of the Arizona Democratic Party.

(And you think YOUR ex is crazy?)

The screaming brought the victim’s sister into the room, at which point Westbrook, with a knife, allegedly made a lunging motion toward both women. According to the court documents, the victim pleaded with Westbrook to stop, saying her son would likely be home soon. Westbrook then ran out of the house.
Officers went to Westbrook’s residence, where the suspect said the whole thing was a “big misunderstanding” and that Westbrook and the victim were into BDSM.
Westbrook admitted going to the individual’s house armed with a knife and duct tape, but claimed the scene was mutually planned, saying “the victim and her agreed on the scene through subliminal messages they exchanged on Instagram.”

(“Subliminal messages” are very important to people who believe in that stuff. Kind of like “climate change,” really.)

Westbrook also claimed the two had “agreed to re-enact a scene where Westbrook scares the victim to help her deal with prior childhood trauma of abuse,” according to court documents.
“Westbrook was given the subliminal message on Instagram that the victim was ready … to start the scene. Westbrook admitted to going over to the residence with a knife, knocking on the door, entering the residence while armed with a fake knife and tape,” police said in the probable cause statement. “Westbrook said she told the victim to sit on the couch. The witness then exited out of her room, interrupting the scene. Westbrook then left the residence.”
However, the victim told police she never agreed to “re-creating” the BDSM scene.
Westbrook was charged with felony third-degree burglary and aggravated assault using a simulated deadly weapon, as well as misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
A release questionnaire for Westbrook’s arrest also obtained by Fox News Digital shows that police checked boxes stating that the suspect has a history of domestic violence, noting that the “frequency/intensity” of such incidents has been increasing.
A preliminary hearing for Westbrook is scheduled for Monday.

You know, I’m old enough to remember when normal people were Democrats. Like, maybe you wouldn’t vote for Walter Mondale, but he wasn’t some kind of sick freak into transgenderism and BDSM. Nowadays, though, the LGBTQIA2S++ agenda means we’re not only required to play along with this guy’s “Brianna” fantasy, but he also expects police to let him off the hook for terrorizing his ex because it’s just a “misunderstanding.” And if you don’t agree, you’re a bigot.

Speaking of dangerous psycho-trannies, Andy Ngo has announced his next book The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult is available for pre-order on Amazon. It is scheduled for release Oct. 13.



 

Category: Arizona, Crime, Democrats, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 07.15.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 16, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day at the Chosin Reservoir (1950),
357 Magnum: Remembering Kevin Mitnick
EBL: First Lionfish, England vs. Argentina, Killing the Woke at West Point, Mad Anthony Wayne, and Ro “The Rotard” Khanna
Twitchy: Todd Blanche Takes On Deranged Dirtbag Adam Schiff, Here’s What Was In The Van of the “Upstanding Non-Citizen On His Way to Work” ICE Shot Today
Louder With Crowder: Democrat senator admits the left will never win another election if voters have to show ID, Alleged doctor testifies under oath that only a “majority” of pregnancies occur in women, California will now go through your garbage to make sure you are properly fighting climate change, Chuck Schumer rips a nasty fart on the floor of the Senate while attacking Trump, and AWFL Canadian (allegedly) slaps teen for wearing MAGA clothing, she’s being detained by ICE and her husband is freaking out
Vox Popoli: No Path to Surrender, A Clown World Assassination, Spain 2 France 0, Russia = Charlie Brown, and The Lies of Judeo Peterson
Cedar Sanderson: The Best in the World
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Daylight Savings Time
John C. Wright: Interview With Catholic Bard
Sensurround: Temporal Excursion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Woke Canadian Woman in ICE Custody and Facing Deportation After Slapping Teen For Wearing Trump-Branded Clothes, Trump Overturns DHS Directive Banning ICE From Conducting Vehicle Stops, Public Confidence in Higher Education Declining According to Latest Gallup Poll, House Passes Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent, and Feds Probe Possible Taco Bell Link in Nationwide Parasite Outbreak
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 95 – Alaska And Zip Ties
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm Leftovers For July 11, Scrappy RINO-ish Lindsey Graham Dead, “A Culture of Courage”: A German Celebrates American Freedom, Nihilistic Accelerationist Pedo Gets 40 Years, and Biden’s Illegal Alien Wave = Higher Home Prices
Behind The Black: Scientists detect Jupiter-sized exoplanet hidden in debris disk surrounding the star Beta Pictoris, Perseverance data documents the multiple impact history at Jezero Crater, Serbia to sign Artemis Accords, Russia agrees to extend ISS partnership through 2030, and Astronomers detect a sugar molecule when looking towards the galactic center
Cafe Hayek: South Korea Grew Faster When It Was More Open to Trade, also, Exports and Imports Move in the Same Direction
CDR Salamander: Calm Yourself On The Drones For A Bit
Da Tech Guy: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Cheering a less-known military victory
First Street Journal: The Capitol kerfuffle is almost over, also, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!
Gates Of Vienna: Robert Spencer: “The Koran is Viciously Hostile Towards Christians”, Trump Administration Still Only Getting Islam and Jihad Half-Right, Knives Go Wild in Milan, Jews to the Gas! and Why Isn’t Today a Notable Day in the UK?
The Geller Report: Speaker Johnson Issues Chilling Warning, Mamdani Intern Says Electing Him Was Part of ‘Holy War’ and Jihad, Khamenei Is Dead – Finish the Regime, Mamdani and Hochul’s Major Funder Tied to Medicaid Fraud Crooks Accused of Stealing $107 Million, and House Passes SAVE America Act, Tying It to Appropriations Bill
Glenn Reynolds: Seizing The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Mick Jagger Will Never Go the Full Bruce Springsteen, Adam Carolla Slams Three Biggest Hoaxes of Our Age, These Celebrity Ghouls Danced on Lindsay Graham’s Grave, Did Conservatives Jump the Gun on The Odyssey? and Can Spaceballs 2 Be As Good As Its Marketing Campaign?
Legal Insurrection: Med School Deans Stumble and Stammer at Hearing When Asked Who Can Have Babies, NY Gov. Hochul’s Data Center Moratorium Hands China an AI Advantage, ‘Important and Effective’: Trump Wants ICE to Resume Traffic Stops, MI Democratic Senate Poll: Stevens Up Big With Black Voters, El-Sayed Backed by White Leftists, and Fearing Deportations, LA County Health Department Lets Food Vendors Run Wild
Nebraska Energy Observer: From ARC and Covenantal, Sunday Matinee: The Gallant Hours, Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast, European Report, and Wow! It’s Been a Long Journey
Power Line: Bogus Blue Rankings, House Votes to Continue Aid to Israel, Put a MyPillow over it, The view from Haaland, and What Were They Doing In England?
Shark Tank: FL Chamber of Commerce Endorses Ingoglia for CFO
The Political Hat: Presumed Guilty
Transterrestrial Musings: A Tale Of Two Enlightenments, A New Space Substack, The Race For Last Place, The Cowardly Democrats, and Every. Sixty. Minutes
Victory Girls: Death to America Was Never Just a Slogan, Little House On The Prairie Goes Woke, Lindsey Graham’s Sister Darline Will Serve Remainder Of His Term, Nancy Mace Blames Trump Instead Of Checking The Mirror, and TX Brandon Gill Schools MA Ayanna Pressley On DEI
Watts Up With That: Climate Retreat Documented in the New York Times, Grauniad Is Upset That Nobody Wants Climate in Their Weather Anymore, Giant ‘Bond Villian’ Space Mirror Approved by Feds, Aussie PM Announces Plan to Force US AI Companies to Pay for Australia’s Net Zero Transition, and RGGI Cheerleaders and the Consumer Carbon Cash Grab
The Federalist: The Real Threats Against SCOTUS Are Not ‘Bipartisan.’, Durbin Says Left-Wing Assassination Attempts Against SCOTUS Are Actually Todd Blanche’s Fault, Deportations Are Only Deadly Because Of Democrat Resistance, Democrat Senator Wants ICE Agents To Choose Between Getting Run Over And Going To Jail, and Netflix’s Little House On The Prairie Is A Betrayal
Mark Steyn: An Empty Table for the Second-Floor Bird, Marooned: Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard in We’re Not Dressing, The Merry Widow Waltz, LaLaLand, and They Want You Dead

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In The Mailbox: 07.15.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 15, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Coming to you from the Temporary Field HQ in the Flamingo Hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas. Appropriately enough, since Tim Powers’ award-winning novel Last Call has a lot to do with this fabled joint.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Why Is an AI CEO Hiring Experts in the Talmud?,
EBL: Amberjack, France Spain World Cup Bastille Day, The Other Bennet Sister, Mutton Snapper, and Rush – “Bastille Day”
Twitchy: Da Nang Dick Blumenthal Continues to Deny Jack Smith’s Wrongdoing Even After CNN Provides Evidence, Second “ICE-Related” Fatality This Week After Mexican Flees & Is Hit By Semi, and Every Democrat Is A No-Show For Senate Fraud Hearing
Louder With Crowder: Democrat congresswoman with silly hat insists DEI totally saves lives or something, Sunny Hostin Doubles Down On Claims It’s Racist To Fly An American Flag In America, LGBTQ cruise passengers shocked to learn they aren’t allowed in Turkey or Egypt, Still think Democrats are normal? Check out this cringe from their Michigan Senate candidate, and Elliot Page makes bizarre claim that the laws of nature prove that she’s a trans man
Vox Popoli: WWIII is Over, Ladybug Died in Kiev, The Next False Flag, TRANSLATION: Zaragoza, and Losing the Technological Lead
Born Lucky: Miley Cyrus – Discounts on “Damaged Goods”
Defending The Wood Perilous: Upstream Reviews Reviews Rachel Griffin!
Sensurround: Religious Arguments About Abortion Kinda Suck
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #13
Ammo.com: What States Have the Strictest Gun Control?
Stoic Observations: American Wag #45 – Digits & Demons, also, AI for Small Business
John C. Wright: Young Washington

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: China Goes Island Grabbing Again
Don Surber: Trump Strait-ens out Iran
Racket News: Humans Unite – The Reign of “AIdeology” Is Here,

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In The Mailbox: 07.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 14, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

It’s even worse when your Monday falls on a Tuesday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Your Kid Is Already A Millionaire – You Just Haven’t Opened The App Yet, also, Feeding The Sun = An Aztec Sacrifice (1500)
357 Magnum: Kentucky Permits 18- to 20-year-olds to Carry Concealed Starting Tomorrow
EBL: Stephen Fry on the Iliad and Odyssey, “From The Bottom of My Heart”, The Westies, Turbulence, and Randall Mantooth, RIP
Twitchy: Trump Stuns Doomer Experts – Again, Trump Torches ABC’s David Muir For Fake Reflecting Pool Story & Lefties Melt Down, and Ben Shapiro Notices All The Worst People Agree On One Thing 
Louder With Crowder: Toronto Police Post Clip Of Them Transporting an Overweight Trans Man Who Felt “Unsafe”, Resurfaced Clip Of Rashida Tlaib Proves She Always Wanted To Destroy America, Spencer Pratt has no patience for blackpillers, and Mick Jagger shocks NYT journalismer stating that, unlike Springsteen, his job isn’t to lecture his fans about politics
Vox Popoli: Europe’s Fake Democracy, Top 10 Epic Fantasies, The Push to Ban AI, England 2, Norway 1, and Exeunt the Ladybug
Cedar Sanderson: The Tipsy Orchard Cake, also, The July Garden Update
The Bugscuffle Gaxette: And That’s Two
Sensurround: David J. Bier & I Need To Talk About Running People Over, also, Warning – This Is About Abortion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Right Place
CDR Salamander: Midrats Mid-July Melee, also, Navy’s Perfectly Named Corsair Takes Out Iranian Submarine
Dana Loesch: RIP Lindsey Graham 1955-2026,
Don Surber: Lindsey Graham – a profile in courage
STUMP: RIP Lindsey Graham – The Unexpected Political Death

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Rule 5 Sunday: Melon Season

Posted on | July 13, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Picked a bad day to accidentally delete the picture folder off my phone, not that there are any good days to do that.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EVIL BLOGGERLADY: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Getting To Know You, “Hey, Lady Godiva”, Off Campus, Seeking Persephone, July 8 1776, Argentina Manages to Finish Off Egypt, Two Night Stand, Barefoot, USA & Belgium Face Off In Seattle, The Sheep Detectives, Mexico vs. England, America 250 Fireworks, and Happy 4th of July

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Amara Sunisa, Gone Fishin’, Fish Pic Friday – Laura Ericksen, Eve Had The Metallic Shine Of Summer, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Dying of the Bubble, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Random Babes

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn

Posted on | July 12, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’ve started the unofficial phase of the draft in Pete’s league for the 1975 season, which is to say there’s no time limit, teams just pick in order. So we might actually have most of the draft done before the official timed part of the draft starts in August. We still have four teams open, if you’re interested.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

baseball

Thinking about the draft

Our Patriotic Duty: Fill The Sky
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Waiting Until August
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy 250th, America!
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.07.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.08.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.09.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.10.26
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Platner’s Progressive Götterdämmerung

Posted on | July 11, 2026 | No Comments

This week saw the final collapse of Graham Platner and what some have called his “Maine Kampf” Senate campaign. The causes and ramifications of that political debacle have been widely discussed. Miranda Devine:

The party of Me Too has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.
Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.
But it’s “Me Too” late to save face.
Conservatives always knew the left’s effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play-acting but now it’s undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters.
The Democratic Party’s defense of Platner to the bitter end against an avalanche of rape and sexual abuse allegations, not to mention his Nazi tattoo, has left them exposed as hypocrites. . . .

(Hat-tip: Hot Air Headlines.) Some of us didn’t need this latest scandal to know the Democrats were hypocrites, but perhaps the Platner episode will convince some hitherto naïve persons that they shouldn’t trust claims of moral superiority from the party of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, et al.

Among other things, we have learned that the progressive activist who recruited Platner for the Senate campaign has himself been previously accused of offensive sexual behavior, which is similarly not surprising. Thursday, before Platner announced he was ending his campaign, I became intrigued by how progressives were missing the lesson in all this:

Amanda Litman is a Democratic Party operative who worked on President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and directed email fundraising for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign. After that debacle, Litman launched Run for Something, a 501(c)4 “dedicated to recruiting and supporting young candidates running for down-ballot office. Its mission is to get young progressive candidates from non-traditional backgrounds to run for and win state and local offices, and create a next generation slate of political candidates that will seek higher office in the future.”
What drew my attention to Litman was, first, her assertion that “everyone made mistakes” regarding scandal-wracked Graham Platner, who won last month’s primary in Maine to become the Democratic Party’s challenger to incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Did everyone really make mistakes about Platner? Or by that sweeping categorical statement, did Litman mean just the Democratic campaign operative class of which she is a member? Because I am pretty sure there weren’t many Republicans who were mistaken about what a complete dirtbag Platner is. Certainly I was not.
But it was Litman’s second post that really intrigued me: Why is “beating Susan Collins … the top priority”? Did Litman even think about that sentence before she posted it? Susan Collins is the most liberal Republican in Congress, and the only reason any Democrat would regard her defeat as “the top priority” is because this is necessary for Democrats to win a majority in the Senate. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest Substack column and, as always, while you’re over there, please sign up for a free subscription (if you’re not subscribed already), or maybe consider upgrading to a paid subscription. So far, I haven’t put any Substack content behind a paywall, mainly because I hate paywalls, but at some point I might think up something worth categorizing as “premium content.”



 

Category: Democrats, Maine, Progressivism
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