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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Trump learned, DC didn’t

Why the second presidency rocks.

On Friday, President Trump kicked CNN, MS NOW and Politico out of the White House. The rest of the press declared this a war on the First Amendment because it would inconvenience their competitors. In defiance, the press decided not to cover White House events.

I can almost hear his laughter and see the tears rolling down his cheeks as the White House Correspondents Association admitted a presence in the White House is worthless. Oh, there will be challenges in the courts but by boycotting news events, the media is showing contempt for a president instead of objectivity, which proves his case.

Real America’s Voice stepped in to provide video. The ability to film Trump entering an aircraft is a hill worth dying on for CNN, which shows the level of stupidity needed to manage the operation.

Nothing quite says professional like ignoring the news in spite.

Of course, the boycott didn’t last as long as the 1990 British TV series, Heil Honey! I’m Home. In New York, Trump held a press conference with Mayor Mamdani. The usuals showed up.

Trump said, “They said they’d boycott me, but they never boycott me! I wasn’t worried about that!”

The president learned from his first term the press needs him more than he needs them when reporters sued to keep from being blocked from his account on Twitter. They screamed about some First Amendment right to be able to mock him online and still be able to read his tweets.

But when Twitter censored him, they laughed. Enjoy the payback, boys.

Trump’s first term was good but it could have been great. The press, the deep state, Democrats and RINOs colluded to thwart him. Eventually, his enemies ganged up on him and made Biden president. They then raided his home—men from the FBI snooped through his wife’s underwear drawer—arrested him and filed lawsuits and 91 indictments against him.

But the arrest and even the assassination attempt failed to stop him in 2024.

77 million people saw through the Democrats’ desperation and returned him to office.

Following his election, the media, Democrats and RINOs dragged out their 2017 playbook. The media churned out Fake News. Democrats sued. RINOs withheld support in the Senate. The playbook had stopped the wall and stalled his presidency with a string of unwarranted investigations that went nowhere.

What Trump learned from being 45, he applied as 47.

For example, he learned from his first presidency was all the RINOs want is tax cuts and nothing else. They got the tax cuts. They didn’t give him a wall.

This time, he gave them tax cuts in One Big Beautiful Bill stuffed with everything he could including funding for ICE through the end of his presidency.

Trump also cut foreign aid to the quick. Ending USAID meant fewer kickbacks to Democrats and their archipelago of NGOs. Suddenly those totally grassroots mostly peaceful protests disappeared.

Also disappearing are federal employees. 348,000 workers are gone—the biggest drop in 60 years. We had topped 3 million employees, but we have a long way to go to draw down to the 2 million employees we had in 1966.

This is reminiscent of President Harding who took over a nation that was in a depression. He cut taxes and cut 54,000 federal workers. This paved the way for the Roaring 20s.

Personnel matters and Trump greatly improved his hiring. Instead of trying to woo Never Trumpers by picking another Pence, Trump selected Vance.

Instead of relying on Republican aid in the Senate, he simply picked the Cabinet he wanted and twisted enough arms to make Pete Hegseth his war consigliere, Bobby Kennedy his health minister and Marco Rubio his jack of all trades.

Of course, the most important appointment was Hegseth. Without the military behind him, a president is just keeping the seat warm. Hegseth enabled Trump to close the southern border with Strykers patrolling the area. We have suffered zero border jumpers in the past 17 months.

Trump started deporting en masse, mainly voluntarily by offering cash and plane tickets. The result is the first net shrinking of immigration in at least 60 years.

3 million foreigners left one way or another.

Not coincidentally, the poverty rate in America fell to an all-time low.

Control of the military has allowed Trump to reset foreign policy. Arresting Nicolas Maduro and killing the ayatollah what’s his name sent a message to tyrants of the world.

Trump has effectively cut Red China’s oil supply by 9% by controlling oil from Venezuela and Iran. They hold the largest and third-largest oil reserves in the world.

Rubio has been the most effective Secretary of State since George P. Shultz. Rubio was a key in getting Panama to rid itself of Chinese control of its ports.

Some are pointing out that along with stopping Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump’s military pact signed with Indonesia in April gives the USA control over the Strait of Malacca. Roughly 80% of Red China’s crude oil imports pass through the strait, as well as a large share of Chinese seaborne trade with Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Then there’s Greenland. Same deal as 1951 (amended in 2004 by Dubya)? Well, for one thing, the Danes can no longer close U.S. bases if Denmark doesn’t like the assignment—a lesson learned when Britain, Italy and Spain vetoed the use of American bases in their countries (and Diego Garcia) to fight the Iranian war.

There are other positives in Greenland but basically Trump has gone back to FDR’s agreement—signed 8 months before Pearl Harbor—to defend Greenland with no strings attached, other than giving Denmark sovereignty over the land back after the war. This we’ll defend as long as defending it serves our purposes.

Finally, there’s the post-45 lesson of punishing RINOs. After being sweet to him when he was president, Lizard Cheney turned on him. Trump primaried her.

This year he primaried Thomas Massie and a couple of RINO senators. That was the first time any president primaried his traitors. In 1938, FDR went after four Democrat senators and went 0 for 4. Trump was 3 for three in primarying incumbents in Congress.

Trump sent a message, which Republican voters delivered.

If Democrats take back the House, it will be impeachment city. But can they? Cutting off USAID and prosecuting Act Blue have helped keep Democrats broke.

Trump is sitting on a half-billion bucks to defend Republicans. Musk will pony up $120 million.

The betting on a communist House Speaker may be in Hillary territory now, but we all know what happened to her. I am not predicting a darned thing, but remember Rule 1:

NEVER BET AGAINST DONALD JOHN TRUMP.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/trump-learned-dc-didnt

Republicans Aren't Letting El-Sayed Memory Hole Hasan Piker

Republicans Aren't Letting El-Sayed Memory Hole Hasan Piker

Stephen Kruiser Follow @stephenkruiser

Top O' the Briefing

Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending the day passing out Juicy Fruit to itinerant yak swaddlers.

Many, many thanks to my good friend Kevin Downey Jr. for filling in for me yesterday. He's a mensch. And a fine ballroom dancer. There's a lot going on during this trip, and I appreciate all of my colleagues who are helping me deal with some family stuff.

As we have discussed many times, the Democratic Party has a knack for churning out a never-ending supply of candidates who seem to get more awful every year. Every time we think that the bottom has been scraped, they find a way to dig deeper. The garden-variety Trump Derangement Syndrome Dems have been a lot to deal with for the last decade, but a lot of them only seem mildly problematic when compared to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who are trying to take over the party.

Raging anti-Israel sentiment is the cornerstone of the DSA philosophy. It's not just a foreign policy feeling; of course, they're intensely antisemitic in everything that they do. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani doesn't hide his feelings very well, but he is practically a paragon of tolerance when compared to Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democrat who's running for the United States Senate.

It's disturbing enough that New York just commemorated the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with a Muslim mayor who may or may not be a full-throated supporter of terrorist groups like Hamas. El-Sayed has been palling around with Hasan Piker, though, the guy who said that the United States deserved 9/11. He's been trying to duck his association with Piker, but Republicans know how to fight a little better these days, and aren't letting him get away with it.

Catherine wrote about the latest ad running to remind voters of El-Sayed's unsettling friendship with Piker:

Anyone who remembers or has studied the devastating al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, knows the name of Todd Beamer. He was one of the heroes of Flight 93, the man who placed the famous call that ended with a prayer and the rallying cry, “Let’s roll.” The Islamic jihadi hijackers aimed to fly that plane to the U.S. Capitol, but Beamer and his fellow passengers and crew overpowered the hijackers and ultimately crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, pictured above. Beamer’s wife was pregnant at the time with their third child.
David Beamer lost his son. Lisa Beamer lost her husband. Two little boys lost a father whom their unborn sibling would never meet. Todd Beamer was a stranger to the terrorists who took over his plane. But Islamic terrorists don’t believe in the individual value of human life. They see everything in terms of groups and aim for the supremacy of Islam by any means, no matter how demonic. Now that Islamists are taking over the Democrat Party, David Beamer — a Michigan resident — is warning Americans to remember 9/11:

I've been in Michigan for almost six weeks and have seen another El-Sayed/Piker ad in heavy rotation whenever anyone in the house is watching sports. We often talk about Democratic candidates providing fodder for the campaign ads of Republican opponents that should be "played on a loop." Piker's quote about 9/11 and El-Sayed's soundbite refusing to disavow Piker need to be in every attack ad here between now and the election.

El-Sayed has a lot of support here in commie Ann Arbor and will no doubt do quite well in Dearborn and surrounding areas. Michigan gets pretty red when moving away from Wayne and Washtenaw counties, though, and voters in the rest of the state are really going to need to turn out in November. Campaign ads like the one from David Beamer should take care of any apathy or complacency. The ones I've seen should also be powerful draws for independent voters and Democrats who think that the DSA has a serious ick factor associated with it. Rather than pass on voting, El-Sayed's insanely radical associations and ideas could get a lot of people to cross party lines in this election.

My crystal ball is pretty cloudy right now, so I'm not making predictions. In a sane world, El-Sayed wouldn't have won the Democratic primary in the first place. Worst-case scenarios are most definitely on the table here in the Year of Our Lord 2026. President Trump has taught the Republican Party how to fight better than it used to, which means that best-case scenarios merit serious consideration as well. Trump hasn't just imbued the GOP with toughness, but he's also taught the party how to push back on false narratives spun by the Democrats. That's something that the 99% of the Republican politicians who came before Trump were useless at.

We know that Abdul El-Sayed is too radical for regular Americans. Michigan — and the United States — need Dem voters here to realize that he's too radical for them as well.

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/09/22/the-morning-briefing-republicans-arent-letting-el-sayed-memory-hole-hasan-piker-n4957500/?utm_campaign=nl_pm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjmediambvip

Red Scare! How the Media Will Cover the Anti-Communist Film Festival

Red Scare! How the Media Will Cover the Anti-Communist Film Festival

Mark Judge

We’re about to launch the first annual Anti-Communist Film Festival. It will be held October 1-4 at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C.

We already know how the media will respond to the event. There will be three prongs to the attack. First, mockery. Look! It’s another red scare! A bunch of right-wingers is screening cheesy old movies from the 1950s!

The second tactic will be rolling out the old “victims” of the first Red Scare and painting them as innocent martyrs. Joe McCarthy will be mentioned. A lot.

Third, and on a more minor note, will be attacks on me, the creator of the festival.

First is the mockery. Look for snarky headlines like “Red Scare II: Authoritarian Boogaloo,” “The Commies Are Coming (Again)”, or “Exhuming McCarthy.” Potential lede:

Are Bolsheviks hiding in your bathroom? According to the organizers of the first annual Anti-Communist Film Festival, the answer, even decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, may be yes. Camp classics like Red Dawn, My Son John and I Married a Communist will be screened or discussed at the event, which is being held at the Victims of Communism Museum on October 1-4. As is fitting for a new age of authoritarianism, the 1950s are back. Have they no sense of decency, at long last?

The mockery will obscure the fact that our centerpiece film is The Lives of Others, which is not from the 1950s, not campy, and directly relevant to the psychology of the new Marxists.

Second will come the attempts to whitewash the damage caused by actual communists. This has already begun. Recently Columbia University held a symposium on - of course - “The New Red Scare.” Guests included Molly Jong-Fast, Mary Louise Patterson, and Michael Meeropol. Fast’s grandfather was novelist Howard Fast, who was a member of the Communist Party from 1943-1957. Patterson’s grandparents were radicals, William and Louise Patterson. Louise Patterson was recently feted by the communist Party USA. Michael Meeropol is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for espionage.

According to Columbia magazine, here’s part of what went down at the symposium:

Meeropol acknowledged that “terrible things” occurred under Stalin, and that US Communist leaders erred in backing the Soviets at every turn. And Patterson argued that the USSR, under pressure from the Cold War for much of its seventy years, hardly had opportunity to fulfill the principles on which it was founded — many of which, she observed, “are in sync with the values of this institution that we’re sitting in.”

That’s right - they are still arguing that real communism has never been tried. It was prevented from doing so because of “pressure” put on the USSR by the West.

In their book Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (Annals of Communism), John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr detail the extensive communist espionage during the Cold War. “Communists were depicted as innocent victims of an irrational and oppressive American government,” Haynes and Klehr write. “In this sinister but widely accepted portrait of America in the 1940s and 1950s, an idealistic New Dealer (Alger Hiss) was thrown into prison on the perjured testimony of a mentally sick anti-Communist fanatic (Whittaker Chambers), innocent progressives (the Rosenbergs) were sent to the electric chair on trumped-up charges of espionage laced with anti-Semitism, and dozens of blameless civil servants had their careers ruined by the smears of a professional anti-Communist (Elizabeth Bentley). According to this version of events, one government official (Harry White) was killed by a heart attack brought on by Bentley’s lies, and another (Laurence Duggan, a senior diplomat) was driven to suicide by more of Chambers’s psychiatric problems.”

Liberals are still bent on depicting the Red Scare of the 1950s as a “witch hunt” that had no basis in reality. Look for an editorial about the film festival by New York Times reporter Clay Risen. In his recent book Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Risen glosses over how the Venona transcripts, cables that were unclassified by Russia in 1990 to reveal the extent of American communist activity during the Cold War, quickly pivot to the real issue - how the Red Scare was about American authoritarianism, which has its modern version in Donald Trump. “Around the time I graduated high school,” Risen writes, “the federal government revealed the Venona program, which had captured secret Soviet communications and which, once decoded, offered compelling proof that figures like Hiss and the Rosenbergs and the leadership of the American Communist Party had, in fact, worked for the Soviet Union and against the United States. There was substance to concerns about Soviet infiltration. But it remained clear that the response, in the form of blacklists and congressional investigations and book bans and loyalty tests, went so far beyond what was necessary that something else was in the mix. Explaining that ‘something else’ became a driving force for this book.”

No, “something else” was not in the mix. Americans reasonably came to the conclusion that the Soviet Union was out to destroy us, and that their spies and sympathizers were evil and needed to be confronted and defeated. It’s 2026, and considering the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America, we’re here all over again.

Finally, the media will take shots at me, the Director of the Anti-Communist Film Festival. I was connected to the Brett Kavanaugh saga, and outmaneuvered the tactics of the American Stasi. There will most likely even be a trifecta of all of the three tactics - mockery, virtue-signaling in defense of communist traitors, and hit pieces to make me look malevolent or stupid. The headline writes itself: “Kavanaugh Drinking Pal Resurfaces Promoting New Red Scare.” Of course, this is the same media that once begged me for six years to submit to a profile, only to spike it when it didn’t turn out as planned.

Hipster mockery, presenting communist spies and true believers as victims, obsessive citations of Joe McCarthy, and me as a guy linked to Brett Kavanaugh and the events of 2018 - or even the 1980s. This is how the media will cover the film festival. They won’t like the fact that this is just the first of many Anti-Communist Film Festivals, and that eventually they will be held all over America -even as the mainstream press dies out. If the media were still at all relevant, their played-out, predictable nonsense might make a difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0o864ft3k&t=114s

https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/08/25/red-scare-how-the-media-will-cover-the-anti-communist-film-festival-n3818311

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of 'Junk DNA'

Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of 'Junk DNA'

Casey Luskin

For decades, many scientists have confidently dismissed the vast majority of the human DNA as useless evolutionary garbage. Yet a recently published scientific paper in Cell, one of the world’s most prestigious biology journals, declares a “paradigm shift” against the idea that huge portions of the human genome are merely “junk DNA.”

After the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, a startling discovery was made. Only about 2 percent of the entire human genome codes for proteins. Scientists naturally asked, what is the other 98 percent doing?

Evolutionary biology was ready with an answer. For decades, they had claimed that the vast majority of the human genome was essentially genetic garbage — “junk DNA.” This idea had deep roots in evolutionary thinking — which loves to claim humanity and other living things are poorly designed.

A 1969 paper titled “Non-Darwinian Evolution” in the journal Science proposed that “99 percent of mammalian DNA is not true genetic material.” Three years later, the great Japanese biologist Susumu Ohno coined the term “junk DNA” and predicted that “at least 90% of the mammalian genomic DNA appears to represent ‘nonsense.’”

Atheist evolutionary biologists loved the idea. Richard Dawkins wrote in his 2003 book "A Devil’s Chaplain" that “genomes are littered with nonfunctional … junk.” But even theistic evolutionists — Christians who believe God created life through evolution — found junk DNA an expedient argument to bolster their theory.

In his 2006 book "The Language of God," Francis Collins — who headed the Human Genome Project — wrote that some “45 percent of the human genome” is little better than “genetic flotsam and jetsam.”

Meanwhile, proponents of intelligent design (ID) developed a very different view of so-called "junk DNA."

In 1994, pro-ID scientist Forrest Mims wrote a letter to Science warning against assuming that “junk” DNA was “useless.” Four years later, mathematician William Dembski articulated the ID view: “Consider the term ‘junk DNA. … Design encourages scientists to look for function where evolution discourages it.”

But why does intelligent design predict function for junk DNA? It’s simple.

ID theory starts by observing what intelligent minds can do, and then searches nature to see if there’s evidence of a mind at work.

We know from our observation-based experience that intelligent agents do things for a reason. Engineers only put functional parts into cell phones. Every time an email is written, an intelligence generates informational sequences with a purposeful message. ID predicts function.

But which view is right? In 2012, a groundbreaking discovery started a paradigm shift in this debate.

A consortium of hundreds of scientists involved in the ENCODE Project published results in the top journal Nature showing that over 80 percent of the human genome is biochemically active. They showed the vast majority of the genome is converted into RNA — a process called “transcription” that is normally a telltale sign of function. One lead ENCODE researcher predicted that as more human cell types are studied, “that 80 percent will go to 100 percent.”

These discoveries had a dramatic effect on biological thinking. Even Francis Collins changed his tune. Speaking at a scientific conference in 2015, he admitted:

"In terms of junk DNA, we don’t use that term anymore because I think it was pretty much a case of hubris to imagine that we could dispense with any part of the genome as if we knew enough to say it wasn’t functional."

Collins explained that most of so-called “junk” is regulating the production of proteins, called gene expression. By 2021, one mainstream scientific paper declared that “the days of ‘junk DNA’ are over.”

These discoveries represented a spectacular fulfillment of ID’s prediction that we would discover function for junk DNA, and a colossal failure for evolution.

Unsurprisingly, evolutionary biologists weren’t going to take this sitting down. One biologist, Dan Graur at the University of Houston, worried that “If ENCODE is right, then Evolution is wrong.” He shifted the goalposts by proposing that if most of our genome is producing RNA, then that “transcription is … stochastic” — i.e., it’s just randomly produced junk RNA!

But Graur’s view has been receding as we discover more and more functions for RNA. A newly published paper in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution dealt a serious blow to “junk RNA.”

This paper, along with a 2024 paper in Nature, took sections of mammalian DNA that are transcribed into RNA and reversed them. If transcription is random and uncontrolled, then scrambling their DNA should not change the amount of RNA that’s produced. But if RNA is produced in a controlled, regulated, and functional manner, then transcription in the scrambled sequence should drop dramatically. And that’s exactly what they found. As the paper found, “most transcription is not a consequence of background noise.”

To be sure, there’s still much we don’t know about the genome. But the more we study genetics, the more function we discover. Evolution’s love affair with viewing our bodies as clumsy accidents is hindering science. In contrast, when we view DNA as intelligently designed, we can make useful predictions that bear good scientific fruit, advancing our knowledge of how cells work.

https://townhall.com/columnists/casey-luskin/2026/09/20/intelligent-design-bears-good-scientific-fruit-in-the-study-of-junk-dna-n2683215?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The Last Stand of Rove, Cornyn, and the Establishment Frauds

The Last Stand of Rove, Cornyn, and the Establishment Frauds

Kurt Schlichter Follow @KurtSchlichter

Twenty years ago, people would’ve thought you were crazy if you told them that Karl Rove would be welcomed onto the pages of the regime media to announce that his powerful principles require him to vote for a Democrat who believes you should carve up little boys and girls to conform to the trendy gender delusions of their Munchausen mommies. But in 2026, when he did that, nobody was surprised. Nobody was shocked. After all, betrayal is the old Republican establishment’s brand.

Rove and his ilk claim that taking sides against us is mandated by their principles. What principles? We understand what the principles of our alleged betters in the conservative (sic) movement really are. They’re not a set of rigid standards that must be adhered to at all costs and hazards; they’re a joke, a ploy to manipulate the rubes, moral Calvinball for people who demand our respect and obedience yet hold us in utter contempt.

But of course, Karl Rove isn’t alone. The doddering has-been is just emblematic of a particularly pernicious political type that those of us who actually believe in something beyond our own prosperity, prestige, and power have been trying to exile from the GOP for decades. All this stuff about the gentlemen of the Republican Party, the compassionate conservatives, the sensible adults in the room, has been revealed to be a lie, but it was always a lie. It was always a scam. When they speak of principles, they’re talking about arbitrary and amorphous guidelines that they impose from on high to control you. But those principles never apply to them. Why, the idea that they should be bound by any guardrails is profoundly insulting to them. They are beyond such common limitations. You, however, are absolutely bound to them, like a serf to his master’s fields.

And here’s the not-so-surprising part. Those principles they always talk about? Somehow, those principles always end up reinforcing the power of the failed GOP establishment at the expense of the GOP base. And those principles always require that we give up our interests, our rights, and our prosperity. Pretty convenient, huh? Tell me one establishment GOP principle that helps us in the base at the expense of those at the peak of the pyramid, and I’ll show you a unicorn.

There’s no such thing as a unicorn.

Why are they taking this opportunity to ostentatiously demonstrate to the people who hate them that they are dissociating themselves from us at the same time the Republican Party faces a very tough midterm? After all, all that’s on the line are the myriad conservative achievements of the Trump administration. It’s no biggie. And what was the catastrophic outrage of outrages that forced them, almost against their will, to take sides against their own party in this time of crisis? Well, an obscure Republican candidate for an obscure Texas political office sent an inartful tweet referencing the anxiety of many Americans about the demographic change in the country that they were never consulted about. That earth-shaking political tsunami of a tweet, according to their principles, requires them to help the Democrats destroy everything we’ve done to save this country. You know, because of Muh Principles.

Uh, no. This was just a convenient excuse for them to do what they wanted to do anyway, which is to slap back at the people who dared not to genuflect to them anymore. Do you think Karl Rove would be doing this if anyone at the White House took his calls? Their phony outrage is a convenient excuse. The issue isn’t whether it was a nice tweet or not; the issue is that they didn’t have to trash their own party, but they chose to do it anyway. You can choose what you’re outraged about. And moreover, this is an opportunity for them to tell you you’re not allowed to talk about the issue of demographic change. They think they should define what is acceptable discourse. One of the big reasons they hate Trump is that Trump started talking about immigration, and they didn’t like that. They had decreed you’re not allowed to talk about it, and then this guy did. How dare he! But Trump spoke for us when no one else in the GOP would. They didn’t want our input because our input wasn’t going to be what they wanted. Guys like Karl Rove and his boss, George Religion of Peace Bush, decided that what America needed to do was change, and what they didn’t need to do was ask us about it. They just did it without asking, just like they sent our jobs overseas, because they knew better. Because they were smarter. More moral. Our betters.

The Tea Party and Donald Trump were largely a reaction to these guys, and we’ve been fighting and largely winning that war ever since. We were once an insurgency; now we are in power. There are far fewer of these throwbacks than there used to be. But the fight continues. They are still out there, popping their little weasel heads up out of their holes to bitterly nip at our ankles.

Oh, it’s not just Karl Rove. Senator John Cornyn (“R”-Nowhere) is part of this imbroglio too. He is big mad that Texas voters rejected him. He must be pretty humiliated right now, which is good, because he deserves it. He wouldn’t be in this situation if he didn’t have such profound contempt for his own voters. For five years of his Senate terms, he would be back in Washington, DC, clinking glasses at the Palm and helping Democrats with things like gun control and amnesty. And in the sixth year, he would come back to Texas, throw on a cowboy hat for the benefit of the yokels, and pretend he was a conservative interested in conserving something other than his own sinecure. But Ken Paxton, whom the allies of Cornyn, Rove, and Bush tried to frame in a bogus impeachment, ran on a platform of actually doing what the people of Texas wanted. And the Texas GOP drop-kicked Cornyn through the goalposts of failure.

It’s not surprising that the tofu crew is now actively pushing Democrats. They haven’t come right out and endorsed that blasphemous communist imp, James Talarico, but everyone knows they want Pete Buttigieg’s Mini-Me to win. We must be punished for our uppity defiance. The old establishment doesn’t care about the Republicans or this country. It cares about itself. The last few weeks have proven that so conclusively that a Lindsay Clancy juror would vote guilty.

These guys are exactly who we thought they were. Hell, they’re actually worse. At least the snobs and stiffs of a century ago had some sort of sense of noblesse oblige. George H.W. Bush may have been so remote from real people that he didn’t understand a supermarket scanner, but at 19 years old, he jumped in a plane in the Pacific to fight for his country. You don’t see that anymore among our GOP ruling class. His loser son’s Air National Guard service that kept him out of Vietnam required us to come to his defense when Dan Rather presented that infamous fake memo. We had his back even when he wouldn’t defend himself because he was too much of a gentleman to respond to them calling him Chimpy McBu$hitlerburton. And he returned the favor by sticking a knife in our collective back when we chose Donald Trump over his fat brother. We were told to please clap as he palled around with his new buddies, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton; standing up for the icky GOP voters who stood up for him would’ve made for uncomfortable conversations at the country club.

And we were equally stunned the other day when news broke that George Will was likewise promoting the Democrat candidate in South Carolina. Of course, what stunned us the most was that George Will still exists. His decline to bitter establishmentarianism started long ago, which is when we stopped listening. It’s hard to understand how influential he was decades ago, although George Will was always like Peggy Noonan without the testosterone. People used to actually think of him as the touchstone of conservatism, but time has made clear that the performative Republicanism of these guys was just that – a performance. It was an act, a mask, a brand.

So it’s not surprising that their principles were, ironically, totally bereft of any principles. Consistency, patriotism, loyalty – oh, they evoked these concepts endlessly, but only when they’re haranguing us to obey. We were told we had to vote for the incumbent Republican no matter what, swallow whatever they gave us, take whatever they chose to give. Vote for someone who actually wants to do the things we wanted to do? No, that was too dangerous. We might lose in the general if we run a candidate who actually believes in something! No, we had to have the back of Senator Stickuphisrear even though the guy, given the chance, was going to vote with the Democrats to import the entire Third World, disarm us, and give a free hand to their crony capitalist corporate donors. Principles require us to compromise. But principles never required them to do anything.

After decades of dealing with these losers, it’s clear that it was never about us. We poor slobs in the Republican base were all just a means to an end. And the end was them being able to be called “Senator.” It was never about the conservative policies they promised us at election time. They knew it was a lie, and when we figured out it was a lie and picked people who actually do what we wanted done, well, we had to be punished.

Do you think Karl Rove or John Cornyn gives a damn what some rando GOP candidate in the Lone Star State thinks about the demographic composition of the UT-Austin Longhorns cheering section? It’s a pretty safe bet that both of them live in neighborhoods that make a Romney family reunion look like the United Nations General Assembly. Their newfound diversity principles are as fake as everything else about them. They’re not supporting the Democrats because of some moral imperative. They’re doing it to hurt us because we rejected them, because we withheld the respect they believe is their due from their lessers. This latest old GOP establishment treachery isn’t about principles. This is about being pissed off at the people who told them to talk to the hand. And now, as far as we’re concerned, they can talk to the finger.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/09/21/the-last-stand-of-rove-cornyn-and-the-establishment-frauds-n2683249?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl