Only so much responsibility attaches to party leaders; ultimately the voters are the ones who decide. In America they have decided to mostly stick with their respective parties, and nobody really seems to know why.
Category: Ideas
Responsibility for Trump: Part I
Far too few conservatives have spoken out against Donald Trump, and even those that have need to look more searchingly in the mirror.
Libertarians vs conservatives – an update
Young libertarians and conservatives attend another debate, and tell us what they think. It's interesting, and disturbing.
Two lectures, or how libertarians lost the plot
The rise of Donald Trump shows why we can't rely on libertarians to defend liberty.
Racism and the Republicans
Decisions on voting rights provide further evidence for the centrality of race to the Republican identity.
How UKIP saved the world (sort of)
Another way of looking at the Trump-Brexit analogy.
Race and the Republicans
The history of the last fifty years in the Republican party shows how the conservative movement sowed the seeds of its own destruction. It's not clear how it can ever be rebuilt.
Spain, eighty years on
Spain marks another anniversary, but the lessons of the civil war have a special resonance this year for the rest of the world as well.
Happy birthday, Miranda!
For fifty years now, police in America have had to observe procedural safeguards that protect suspects' rights, and the sky has still not fallen in. But some haven't learned the lesson.
And the winner is: Tony Abbott
Despite the advent of Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal Party's war against modernity has continued – as shown in its strange obsession with the Greens.
The World is Not Enough 