It may be time for me to step away from politics. I hope that enough Americans want to save our country. I hope that enough of us are going to vote this November.

The single worst intellectual error I ever made was discounting the need for some standard of enforcement concerning what should count as citizenship, which is the political right to participate in the formation of the rules concerning public life. As a libertarian, I never thought this mattered, which is an idiotic thing to believe. As I think back on Frederic Bastiat's The Law, this was a central theme of that book – he believed that receiving welfare should disqualify one for the franchise – a point I conveniently overlooked. This error is now the doom of Europe.

Democrat CT State Senator Martha Marx: The idea of freedom is absolute chaos Not voting is giving these people power.

The idea that mega billions in social welfare fraud ended up in the hands of ragtag recent immigrants is hilarious. There is no way that the powerful didn't cut themselves in on -- and organize -- one of the greatest orgies of legalized theft in human history.

Norm Eisen’s Democracy Playbook 2025 is a 178-page operations manual for using color-revolution tactics to obstruct, destabilize, and ultimately remove an elected government. Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. On October 29, 2025, former CIA analyst Elissa Slotkin (D) delivered a Brookings keynote specifically addressing “domestic deployments and national security.” Less than three weeks later, Slotkin released a coordinated seditious video with Mark Kelly and four other Democratic lawmakers addressing military and intelligence personnel directly and urging them to refuse orders, putting our country at great risk. Eisen’s playbook openly recommends tactics that, if foreign governments deployed to influence an American election or secretly directed through American proxies as he explicitly asks them to do, would violate federal election law and FARA. Yet he carefully presents them as “democracy assistance” and general civil resistance. It declares America a “backsliding democracy” and argues that tactics previously deployed against foreign governments now have “important potential U.S. applications.” Its instructions are remarkably direct. Opposition groups are told to “forcefully contest each individual” government action through courts and legislatures, impeachment, recall campaigns, protests, strikes, and boycotts. They are urged to build “transnational networks” with foreign organizations and governments, then work with “external allies” to pressure the targeted administration. Foreign donors are instructed to finance local NGOs, develop activist networks, train organizers in “strategic nonviolent action,” provide technology and secure meeting spaces, support friendly media, attend protests and trials, and pressure governments to “enact changes or step down.” Most revealingly, the playbook tells outside donors to avoid the appearance that domestic political activities are “externally driven.” It explains how journalists should be “sensitized” to resistance movements, how activists should be trained as media spokespeople, and how social-media companies should ensure opposition messages “get through.” The model presented is Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Eisen’s playbook praises years of foreign support from USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and other organizations. It describes foreign grants to activist groups, foreign training for organizers, embassy funding for media outlets and exit polls, and diplomats physically intervening to protect opposition activists. The legal strategy is equally revealing. The book discusses using artificial intelligence and data to identify which judges and jurisdictions are most receptive to particular arguments. In plain English, technologically assisted judge and venue shopping. Create an opposition coalition. Weaponize the courts. Mobilize protests, strikes, and boycotts. Recruit NGOs and sympathetic media. Secure foreign funding and training. Pressure technology companies. Conceal the appearance of foreign direction. Apply relentless pressure until the elected government “enact[s] changes or step[s] down.” This is the same Norm Eisen who appears endlessly on television presenting himself as a neutral defender of American institutions. They call it “defending democracy.” Everywhere else in the world, it is called regime change and he would be in prison for treason.

As a young conservative staffer, I’ve always thought of progressive staffers as honorable opponents in the war of ideas, messaging, and political strategy. I’m learning they do not think of us the same way.

As a young conservative staffer, I’ve always thought of progressive staffers as honorable opponents in the war of ideas, messaging, and political strategy. I’m learning they do not think of us the same way.

CT state sen. martha marx just complained that freedom is "absolute chaos. it's just people doing what they want to do." wanna you know who else hates freedom? communists. @libsoftiktok @RNCResearch

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for." Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it." I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy. The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us. Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat. Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces. Where does it come from? Four layers. First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country. Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else. Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do. Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night. The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct. Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say. On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength. But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration. This is where men have a responsibility. Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves. Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends. That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women. Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street. A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left. Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough. Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

🇹🇼 African pees inside a train in Taiwan. Has no clue what he's doing wrong

ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics. @ElissaSlotkin

Black man punches white woman half his size. Broken culture. No impulse control. Probably no consequences.

US Senators BASED to WOKE - Ranking all 100 senators using their voting records. Congrats to @RandPaul @BasedMikeLee and Missouri's own @Eric_Schmitt

AOC says it’s “racist” to call out Abdul El-Sayed for his family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

A Federal Judge in California named Jinsook Ohta just ruled Marco Rubio must bring in 55,000 foreigners per year in the Diversity VISA Loterry program The federal judge, who was born in South Korea, says the foreigners must be specifically from countries like Africa and Nigeria and other countries “with historically low rates of immigration to the US” The Middle East is also specifically eligible for this program to send us their foreigners through this lottery The judge was appointed by Joe Biden Democrats knew what they were doing, they strategically appointed federal judges under Biden to ensure our country would be flooded with 3rd world foreigners

I spit out my coffee.

Somali-born Nafisa Fai, candidate for Washington County Commission Chair in Oregon, hosted a rally speaking Somali, flanked by an UPSIDE-DOWN American flag. We are being conquered in front of our eyes.