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The unquiet room in a quieter moment. (© FlaglerLive) What happened on Tuesday at the Palm Coast City Council is indefensible and dangerous. But it’s nothing new. We’ve simply not been paying attention to a perilous degradation of public discourse and behavior. We’re no longer witnessing just fiery opposition, which is the DNA of any vibrant democracy. The opposition is now routinely aggressive, threatening, irresponsible. The gap between that and violence is vanishing.  Tuesday’s council meeting was one example. There’s been many others. Even on Tuesday, the disturbing thing wasn...

Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radicalizing. My Republican friends report vicious divisions in their churches and families. Republican politicians who don’t toe the Trump line are speaking of death threats and menacing verbal attacks. It’s as if the Trump base felt some security when their man was at the top, and that’s now gone. Maybe Trump was the restraining force. What’s happening can only be called a ...

April 25, 2021 By Rod DREHER As many of you know, David Brooks and I are friends. I can tell you that it’s hard to find a more generous and decent man anywhere. That’s really true, and that, besides my innate loyalty to friends, is why I ball up my internal fist whenever I hear people criticize him harshly. And it’s why I’m not going to publish any comments on this blog that criticize him personally (as distinct from criticizing his ideas). But I also recognize that David is dispositionally and convictionally more liberal than I am, and far more optimist about the way of the world. Th...

The events of January 6th weren't a "Trump crisis" – they were a Republican crisis.

David Brooks: The Republican Party is getting even worse Some think they are the small army of warriors fighting with Alamo-level desperation to ensure the survival of the country as they conceive it. (Jacquelyn Martin | AP file photo) In this Jan. 6 photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. By David Brooks | The New York Times   | April 24, 2021, 5:00 p.m. Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radic...