He Has Really Cost Us We all want America to win. We want solid jobs, wages that actually keep up with groceries, and towns that aren’t hollowed out while Wall Street throws a party. If you listen to Donald Trump, he fixed it all overnight. The story goes: our country was completely in the toilet; he stepped in, waved a magic wand, and built the "greatest economy in the history of the world." He will tell you that he was the only one who could do this. It’s a great story, but is it true? If a mechanic tells you your truck is good as new when he just slapped fresh paint over a cracked engine block, you aren’t doing yourself any favors by believing him. At some point, you must stop listening to the stories and look at the receipts. Not the cable news spin, not the campaign rallies, just the cold, hard numbers from our own government. Here are just three examples of what really went down. Myth 1: "I Built the Whole Economy from Scra...
The Great Betrayal: How the Right Fell in Love with Unchecked Government Power While Violent Predators Walk Free I like to think that most Americans who believe in law-and-order hold to a few simple, common-sense truths: The Constitution is supreme. If you commit a violent crime against an innocent person, you belong behind bars. The federal government should never have unchecked, arbitrary power to throw people into cages without a real trial. For nearly a century, conservatives warned the nation about the deadly danger of the "Administrative State" —the unelected federal bureaucracy, the "Deep State," the agencies that operate outside the Constitution. Thinkers, talk-radio hosts, and constitutionalists gave fiery speeches warning us: “If you let federal agencies bypass real courts, if you let bureaucrats act as investigator, prosecutor, and judge without a jury of your peers, you are handing Washington the keys t...