Archive - The UnPopulist

We Need to Restore a Healthy Protestantism to Save American Liberalism

An incisive book by an atheist convincingly shows how both major strands of this faith tradition lost their way

Mar 17 •

Berny Belvedere

The Apostles of Strongman Politics Will Usher In a New Tyranny

Ordered, constitutional governance is the only guarantee of individual life, liberty, and property

Mar 15 •

Trump Is Going After Big Law to Make it Difficult for His Political Targets to Get Effective Representation

Undermining the independence of the legal profession to remove an impediment for exacting revenge is a standard authoritarian tactic

Mar 13 •

Trump's Attacks on the Human Rights of Palestinians Are Next Level

But Biden's policies toward a people that is suffering massively and needs help were flawed too

Mar 12 •

Musk’s Toxic Brand of Politics Has Hit a Wall in the U.K.

He is using legitimate public anger over the government’s handling of a past grooming scandal for illegitimate extremist ends

Mar 10 •

Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World

A French politician issues a stark warning

Mar 7

Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Is Draconian and Lawless

Its breathtaking scope goes far beyond targeting criminal aliens and seeks to instill fear among all immigrants

Mar 6 •

Executive Watch

Tracking presidential abuses of power

Mar 5

Ukraine Is Being Punished Because Zelenskyy Did Not Buy Trump's Superpowers

The White House wanted the Ukrainian president to sell out his country to appease Putin

Mar 4 •

How Silicon Valley’s Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy

Donald Trump is a vehicle for Musk and Thiel to implement their radical ideas of replacing accountable governance with an unaccountable techno-monarchy

Mar 2 •

February 2025

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