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RICH LOWRY President Donald Trump finally did what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane into the ground. That metaphor is Flight 93, courtesy of Michael Anton, author of a famous essay before the 2016 election about how Republicans had no option but to get on board with Trump. “Charge the cockpit or you die,” Anton wrote. “The Flight 93 Election” became a signature statement of Trumpism, and remains incredibly relevant to...

President Donald Trump finally did what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane into the ground.

A group of conservatives and Trump administration officials quietly met in Las Vegas over the weekend to discuss issues including 'woke tech', 'restoring law', and the 'new slave power,' according to a report by Protocol. 

Trump officials and conservatives met to discuss woke tech titans at secretive weekend Vegas summit where the tone was very critical and very pro some type of intervention The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, hosted a Digital Statecraft Summit in Las Vegas over the weekend   Protocol obtained a copy of the agenda and spoke to four people invited  High-profile speakers included US Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios, Texas AG Ken Paxton and former deputy national security...

The "Never-Trump" wing of the Republican party is "taking a bow" as the president prepares to leave office, Laura Ingraham told viewers Thursday.

"The Flight 93 Election" became a signature statement of Trumpism, and remains incredibly relevant today.

The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency POLITICO 1/14/2021 By Rich Lowry © AP Photo/ Evan Vucci President Donald Trump waves while boarding Air Force One on Feb. 25, 2019, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Donald Trump finally did exactly what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane straight into the ground. That metaphor, of course, is Flight 93, courtesy of Michael Anton, the right-wing author who wrote a famous es...

Tucker Carlson’s life lessons Watching Tucker Carlson’s December 19 speech to the assembled multitude at the Turning Point USA 2020 Student Action Summit in Palm Beach (video below), I thought of Michael Anton’s Claremont Review of Books essay/review “Tucker’s right.” Anton describes Carlson as “the de facto leader of the conservative movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in f...

Binyamin Appelbaum, the main writer on economics for the New York Times, thinks that economics was appropriately progressive—favoring severe market restrictions—in the first half of the twentieth century. All this changed in the fifties. By Christopher Caldwell. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 342 pages. The task that civil rights laws were meant to carry out—the top-down management of various ethnic, regional, and social groups—had always been the main task of empires. The US now imposes this...

I am senior correspondent at The American Conservative, a magazine founded in Washington, D.C. in 2002, in opposition to the war in Iraq. What inspired you to choose this career path? I feared I couldn’t do anything else. Everything else seemed slow, and I was a bonafide news junkie. Like any addict, what of course was required was escalation. In my mid-twenties, at least, I think I would have floundered just reading the net all day at some law office. I also made a contrarian bet that media...