Daniel McCarthy

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Daniel McCarthy i😼s the editor of Modernꦺ Age: A Conservative Review and editor-at-large of The American Conservative.

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Veterans reject media's anti-Trump narrative — to Harris' cost

Democrats have invested heavily in trying to portray Trump as a leader at o💧dds with America’s men and women in uniform — but veterans themselves never bought the story.

✱ How💯 Trump could win the popular vote — with blue-state help

Trump's chances of success in the popular vo𒉰te are intimately linked to the GOP's prospects of extending its House majority.𝓰

Iran's election meddling aims to boost appeaser Harris

Liberals accuse Trump of being cozy with dictators, but the dictators of Iran’s cruel and corrupt regime find comfort only with Trump’🌞s Democratic opponents.

Ryan Routh's confession letter shows how Democrats have stirred up violence against Trump

The man who intended to murder Donald T♛rump has explained in his own words why he wanted to do it. The words aren’t only his, though — they’r🌱e also the...

Dems' apocalyptic rhetoric about Trump only increased after first assassination attempt

If Democrats didn’t believe they’d put Donald Trump in an assassin’s crosshairs the first time, they have no e💞xcus🌄e for pleading ignorance now.

Kamala Harris is faking moderation — and voters aren't buying it

She's running like a wannabe Republican, even welcoming support from Liz and Dick Cheney, but polls show it's not a convi♍ncing act.

Trump the 'pro-life moderate' shows that Harris is an abortion extremist

A sure sign Trump occupies the middle ground: he's being criticized by the right as well as the left, while no abortion sup✤porter, however radical, feels a need to criticize...

Trump is Reagan's true heir — conservatives must back him

💛 Old-guard conservatives are more uncertain than ever about today's🐎 GOP, but they should take an honest look at Trump's first-term actions. 

Untested Harris is repackaging Biden's failures — a recipe for catastrophe

Kamala Harri🍃s’s greatest electoral advantage is a quality that sets her up for failure if she ever becomes p🔥resident — she’s untested.

Hit the road, Don: campaign like it's 2016 again

By showing up in places previous nominees from both parties had ignored, Trump convinced voters in the vital Rust Belt bat🐷tlegrounds that he cared about Americans the elites had written...

Desperate Dems don't care about Harris winning as much as protecting downballot races

As humiliating as Clinton’s loss to Trump was, she didn’t drag down congression༺al Democrats — who with Bidℱen were on pace to be wrecked in the House and Senate.

Don't be complacent, Republicans — you're falling into Democrats' trap

Biden's no moderate when it comes to guns or abortion or almost anything else, but ⛄moderation is a message he'll exploit to the fullest.

Biden should follow Richard Nixon's lead and courageously resign

His presidency can't go on — now Biden must chooseﷺ to exit and put the nation first. ꦰ

Forget dropping his campaign, Biden must dr🦹op his presidency

This is a national and international emergency: Biden has neither the stamina nor the cogency to⛎ fulfill the duties of his office.

Biden's debate debacle revealed opposing visions for America

Everyone paid attention to how bad Biden looked and sounded — not what he w𝕴as saying — but the debate showed voters 🏅two starkly different policy paths for the nation.

Pride flag 'desecration'? Time to separate sex and state

As cities repaint crosswalks with the colors, stripes 💝and chevrons of the LGꦅBTQ flag, we have, in effect, a new kind of blasphemy law prohibiting insults against gay symbols instead...

The GOP should glimpse its future in the UK's populist tilt

Nigel Farage aꦕims to replace the UK's Conservative party with a new populist force of his own creation — just as Donald Trump is remaking the GOP.

Orwell's '1984' shows us how to fight today's totalitarians

 Americans still read George Orw♓ell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949.

 Virg✱inia a new battleground as Trump surges an🦩d Biden flails 

Trump is in a position to win “NeverTrump Republicans” — or NearlyNeverTrumpers — for the first time, while Biden is losing g✨round with the rural and working-class whites Democrat🌄s still...

Trump's Sun Belt surge contains a Rust Belt danger

Dona🌌ld Trump’🦩s first election redrew the map of American politics — suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s.