The Establishment’s Scandal Scam Tactics Won’t Work Anymore
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
The establishment types need to understand something. While the vast majority of people either don’t know or don’t care about this non-scandal, we conservatives care about collaboration with the Democrat liars and complicity with the regime media smear machine. We’re not going to tolerate it. We’re not going to take it anymore. Tillis and Cornyn are both up for reelection in 2026. Mark our words – if they or anybody else sides against us and with the damn communists, we’re going to remember, and it will be primary time.

Dear Never Trump: Thanks For Nothing
Deroy Murdock, The American Spectator
For all of his personality quirks, grandiosity, and occasional vulgarity (all of which seem dialed back lately), Trump beats these non-crazy Democrats by light years on public policy. I am no fan of tariffs, other than as a blunt instrument against China and as a bargaining chip against other international mischief makers. Aside from that area of caution, America is in store for massive tax cuts, deregulation, and DOGE’s efforts to depopulate and padlock entire agencies. For all of this, we owe Never Trump nothing.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Backs Trump’s Tariff Threat Against Mexico, Predicts ‘Extraordinary Economic Expansion in America’
Tom Pappert, The Star News Network
Governor Glenn Youngkin last week confirmed he supports President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to impose new tariffs against Mexico to compel the neighboring nation to cut the flow of fentanyl over the southern border. Youngkin argues that Trump’s plans will ignite an expansion in manufacturing for Virginia. Youngkin reportedly confirmed his support for Trump’s tariffs during a Tuesday press conference, as he provided an update on the commonwealth’s efforts to curtail fentanyl overdoses with Attorney General Jason Miyares.

Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years. There is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses. Speakers with conservative viewpoints are often either disinvited or shouted down—and worse. A number of partisan elite college presidents have resigned in disgrace.

One month after campaign’s final convulsion, a moment of peace
Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Hitler moment turned out to be a final convulsion rather than the new normal. Trump’s victory, brought at least a moment of relative peace. “While President-elect Trump’s 2016 win sparked shock, outrage, and massive protests, the response to his 2024 victory has been more muted,” Axios reported in “The Resistance goes quiet.” One longtime Trump antagonist noted that “exhaustion is real” among those who have been protesting Trump for nearly a decade now. Trump might, perhaps, have at least a brief opportunity to govern.

Best news of 2024: The collapse of ‘diversity, equity, inclusion’
Rich Lowry, New York Post
There are signs the DEI wave has crested. Walmart just announced that it will stop using the term “diversity, equity and inclusion” and end various DEI-related initiatives. Other companies have been pulling back, as well. The trend will presumably only accelerate with a new Trump administration. The end of DEI would be a net addition to our collective life. It would avoid, at best, a waste of time and, at worst, a gratuitous source of conflict and mutual suspicion. DEI has been tried, and the dismal results are now becoming known.
 

How Trump Voters Learned To Love, and Turn Out, the Mail-In Ballot
Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Politics
Trump campaign and its allies chased the low-propensity voter. And it worked. He not only swept each swing state on his way to becoming just the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms, but Trump also won the popular vote, something Republicans haven’t achieved since 2004. Now every Republican operative involved in planning for the midterms and the next general election is focused on one question: How to keep these voters in the GOP fold? It will likely include a heavy emphasis on the early vote.