by Richard Schulman Is what happened a surprise? It shouldn’t be. The governors of urban Democratic states created a lumpenproletariat by shutting down their states’ economies. They then condemned to the confines of their apartments the lumpen they had created, week after week, month upon month. When a police killing that was immediately and universally […]
Industrial policy’s strange bedfellows
by Richard Schulman “National Conservatism” (NC) has sometimes been characterized as an attempt to fashion a coherent political theory and program out of President Trump’s unpredictable policy-making. Its spokesmen include Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and the City Journal‘s Oren Cass. They are calling for a national industrial policy as a fulfillment of National Conservatism’s […]
President bends slightly to pro-trade Republicans; conservatives come out in opposition
President Trump bent slightly his severe steel and aluminum tariffs to temporarily exclude Canada and Mexico but left other allied nations still exposed to their brunt. The President’s protectionist tariffs provoked a storm of protests from congressional Republicans, and many conservatives came out in united public opposition to Trumpism for the first time since the […]
