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The Democratic group American Bridge hopes to swing some of Trump’s rural voters in 2020 using health care as a wedge issue.

Writing in Vanity Fair, pundit T.A. Frank offers some stern commentary that’s sure to upset his liberal readership. And yet if conservatives read his piece, it’s likely that many of them, too, will be upset. So perhaps Frank has something interesting to say. 

For all their differences, Rubio and Warren have done something important: They have jointly raised the flag of Economic Patriotism. So now we’ll have to see where they end up, and also, which other leaders step forward to claim this valuable centrist turf. After all, it’s hard to think of a better platform than American jobs, for American workers, as part of an overall vision of a prosperous and strong America. 

The coverage of the 75th anniversary of D-Day has been heartening, and oftentimes, it’s been inspiring.   

Democrat presidential candidates have been joined by a coterie of consultants and techies who are aiming at hitting an arbitrary target—a fundraising target—as a result of the DNC’s 2020 debate criteria. But more money in politics isn’t quite “the party of the people.”

One can point to a slew of conservative nationalist world leaders, in addition to India’s Narendra Modi, including Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, and Bibi Netanyahu, who have a sense that they are leading their country, starting with a majority of their people.

Australian conservatives won by ignoring international opinion and supporting Australian voters who want strict immigration curbs. In fact, Australia’s strict immigration policy is so successful that it has come to the attention of the Trump administration, which seeks to shift U.S. policy in the same productive direction. 

Those 207 churchgoers, and others, who were killed in the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, confronted, in their last moments on this earth, a threat greater than climate change.

The question for 2020 is whether the Democrats will quietly champion a manageable national health plan or allow their avant-garde ideological ambitions to get the best of them.

My bet is that most Democrats would rather be talking about healthcare than Rep. Ilhan Omar, the by-now-notorious Democrat from Minnesota.  

If the healthcare issue is due for a revival, as President Donald Trump is indicating, then it’s worth recalling, and seeking to learn from, some of the pitfalls that befell the big and ambitious healthcare plan of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Democrats hammered the GOP on healthcare in 2018, and without a doubt, they look forward to running on healthcare, again, in 2020. And from their point of view, why shouldn’t they?

Data show overwhelmingly that in recent decades, jobs and income growth have been much higher in the cities than in rural areas.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is doing the Republican Party a great service. And maybe the country, too. He is circulating a Congressional resolution calling for a “Green Real Deal.” 

The Russiagate conspiracy exposed a fake new trifecta. First, reporters and their allies hate Trump; second, they over-trust their sources; and third, they have such a strong reason to believe anything bad about Trump that they end up as dupes, playing unwitting roles in a conspiracy theory. 

So we must grieve for those who were killed in New Zealand. And then let’s think hard and get ready for the next attack, because if we are prepared, maybe we can prevent it.

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or anyone, attacks Ronald Wilson Reagan, it is fitting and proper for loyal Reaganites, including this one, to rise to the Gipper’s defense. 

Howard Schultz is due for some Strange New Respect. That’s the jokey term applied to someone who bends the Main Stream Media’s way—and that’s exactly what Schultz is now doing. 

The human soul is the one place that can’t be spied on. The government of the People’s Republic of China fears religion because it doesn’t know what its people might be praying about or otherwise thinking about.

On February 12, Sen. Marco Rubio issued the most important report yet seen in this new Congress—and it might possibly be the most important congressional document published this year.

Pat Caddell, who died on February 16, was to me one of the nicest—and most interesting—people I have ever met in politics.  

AOC will be on the ballot in 2020—because her ideas are all over the place, including, “70 percent top income tax rate,” “Green New Deal,” and “Medicare for All,” to name just three. 

The abortion extremism of Govs. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Ralph Northam (D-VA) has crossed a line in American public opinion. It has made President Trump a pro-life stalwart and has given the Right to Life movement its biggest comeback in decades.

His opponents—within the president’s party, in the opposition party, and in possible new parties—are lining up. Indeed, the insider pundits mostly agree: The president is a failure, and is likely a one-termer. The president I’m describing, of course, was Harry Truman.

If would-be presidential contender Howard Schultz follows the Evan McMullin approach in 2020, he’ll buy his way onto the ballot only in red states in order to hurt Trump’s electoral college votes. If so, the Democrats who have been trashing Schultz will start cheering him.

“And like this is the war, this is our World War II.” So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), speaking on January 21.

According to a new poll, 68 percent of Americans believe that providing “Medicare for All” should be an “extremely important priority.”

Political star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) enjoys vastly more Twitter interactions than any other Democrat and any media portal. Will she be content with her social media platform or reach for something new?

BP announced the discovery of $59 billion worth of oil in the waters south of New Orleans. Will Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal stifle that economic boom for U.S. workers or use it?

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the essay that changed the world: Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Her words are as relevant to today’s foreign policy challenges as they were to 1979’s.

Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn in on January 1. He won a landslide election in October on a platform that’s pro-business, pro-gun, pro-United States, and pro-Israel. At the same time, his platform was also anti-crime, anti-political correctness, anti-Cuba, and anti-Venezuela.

The news that Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats will create a select committee to draft legislation might seem to be mere dry proceduralism, and yet in fact, it’s a significant signal that Democrats intend to fast-track Green legislation.

In Part One of this series, we observed that politicians such as Beto O’Rourke have proven that they are “digital natives.”  That is, they’ve grown up with social media, and their “fluency” is already reshaping campaigns. 

As we know, Ocasio-Cortez has put forth many ideas, from “Medicare for All” to “Abolish ICE” to “Stop Amazon.” Yet one of her ideas looms above all the others: a “Green New Deal.”  

In the wake of federal judge Reed O’Connor’s December 14 ruling that the entirety of Obamacare is unconstitutional, President Trump applauded the decision, saying, “It’s a great ruling for our country.” He added, “We will be able to get great healthcare. We will sit down with the Democrats if the Supreme Court upholds.”

In politics, every new communications technology creates, or at least empowers, a new style of politician.