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California’s Trump-like Moment, 22 Years Before Trump: The Adventures of Pete Wilson

  • California
March 22, 2017December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The United States on the whole has seen a rather sudden pivot, or so it seemed, of ‘conservatism’ from a coalition of religious or moral conservatives, economic conservatives [the latter were split into ever lower taxes fiscal ‘conservatives’, and deficit […]

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Is it Time for Northern Country Music?

  • Culture
December 13, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A few years ago I did a post on how country music seemed to have a Southern bias.  Well, Donald Federikovich Trump owes his victory to the northern counterpart of rednecks, whatever they are called, that won him the states […]

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Michael Lind:  Can You Restrict Immigration Without Alienating Recent Immigrants?

  • Politics
December 6, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Lind is one of the most perceptive political and social observers of our time.  He ‘scooped’ the Trump revolution, as I have said, before Trump even declared himself a candidate.  And he has continued to be as perceptive. But […]

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Opportunities for Positive Testimony

  • Religion
October 24, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The candidacy of Donald Trump, and his takeover of the Republican Party, has split the American evangelical world and is, I think, purging it.  But it is creating opportunities for positive testimony as well.  The Daily Beast, far from a […]

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The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming

  • Culture
August 29, 2016August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have repeated Francis Schaeffer’s warning about ‘personal peace and affluence’ often at Blue Kennel, but it’s time to do it again.  He declared, back about 1970, that the ‘Silent Majority’, a term Nixon had begun to use, was composed […]

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Do We Have Something to Offer Working Class Whites? An Open Letter to the CCDA Leadership

  • Religion
August 23, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the last couple of years there have been a number of stories about an increase in the death rate of working class whites that has not been paralleled among their African American and Latino counterparts.  At the same time, […]

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Authoritarianism is a Hot Subject Nowadays

  • Culture
July 22, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a lot of intellectual fuss about ‘authoritarianism’ nowadays, because of the rise of Donald Trump and what appears to be the overthrow of traditional ‘fusion’ conservatism.  A long essay by Amanda Taub in “Vox” is the most thorough […]

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The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge – Part 2

  • Culture
June 28, 2016January 10, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurs to me that Adams anticipates Trump.  However, when I wrote this I thought the people on the lower left corner weren’t going to turn out to vote.  Therefore the culture wars between the upper left and lower right […]

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Richard Nixon: A Precedent for Donald Trump?

  • Politics
June 12, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurred to me that a possible precedent for Donald Trump might be none other than Richard Nixon.  Now I think that Nixon was a far more intelligent man than Trump, and, for all his sins, a person of superior […]

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Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response

  • Culture,
  • Politics
June 1, 2016July 25, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Andrew Sullivan, having retired from blogging and writing after first giving us the idea of same sex marriage and then being lambasted by his followers for wanting to be tolerant to their enemies who lost over that particular issue, has […]

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