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Definition: Charles Krauthammer = A Neo-Conservative writer and theorist,  who worships at his inner shrine to these three deities: Nihilism, Chaos and Strife. These are the gods of masculine privilege and power, without mitigation. Mr. Krauthammer is a physician who, … Continue reading →

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Definition: George F. Will = In the weedy field of The American Republic stands the singular effloresce that is Mr. Will. He presents himself as the channeled spirit of Edmund Burke, the great English parliamentarian. Burke was a man and … Continue reading →

Definition: Neo-Conservative = The realization of a Platonic political vision, The Republic, founded on an active and deceitful paternalism, wedded to an unalloyed authoritarianism: Violent and murderous, without apology, willing and able to defend its exceptionalism as political wisdom, prima … Continue reading →

Definition: Obamaism = A case of overwhelming political timidity or utter lack of faith in your own political vision or simple opportunism. One can parse this adjective in so many ways, it is a truly elastic concept. It encompasses Clinton, … Continue reading →

Definition: New Democrat =  A conscious decision to forget the New Deal as the authentic ‘Third Way’ and for reasons of personal political ambition, to court the oligarchs, the plutocrats and the kleptocrats. All the while propagandizing your virtue as … Continue reading →

Definition: Reaganism = The self-willed forgetting of the suffering of others and the political power to make that suffering irrelevant to  the America’s civic endeavor.