Thursday, March 28, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor

LPR is amazed ...

March 5, 2016 --

...that Donald J. Trump is the only Republican presidential candidate not willing to demonize Russia's president Vladimir Putin. An anti-Putinist like Hillary Clinton can., of course, easily redirect her demonizing of Putin to demonizing Trump -- and in this she will be happily joined by the GOP establishment and leftists throughout the country. (LPR understands that another "conservative" columnist at the Times, Ross Douthat, suggested a rather unpleasant way to terminate the Trump candidacy, before deleting the suggestion.) LPR's rule of thumb: no columnist at The New York Times can be regarded as a bona fide populist conservative--faithful to the founding "path" as indicated in the first half of Federalist No. 57.