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Donald Trump

Is Separation the Answer?

By Boyd Cathey

As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six states. The large pro-Trump margins that seemed to prevail late election night have now disappeared as mail in votes, many… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Joe Biden
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution

A Neo-Confederate Prediction of Post-Election America

By Marshall DeRosa

The political chaos that has accompanied President Trump’s first term will not abate anytime soon. From the Russian Collusion hoax to rioting in the streets to the public policy responses to the Covid-19 so-called pandemic,… »

  • Confederate States Constitution
  • Donald Trump
  • Joe Biden
  • Marshall DeRosa
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • United States Constitution

The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession

By Boyd Cathey

Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each day some on-air talking head or online spinmeister reveals breathlessly increasingly bad results for President Trump and anyone who dares… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Secession
  • Southern Politics

Panic, Prohibition, Phobias, and (for perfect alliteration) Phools

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The government is not going to rescue all the businesses that go under as a result of the Corvid-19 virus panic. It doesn’t matter how much money is printed, printed money is not real, It… »

  • Donald Trump
  • Federalism
  • Northern Studies
  • Paul Yarbrough

Never Trumpers Like Joe Biden and Hate the South

By Boyd Cathey

Thoughtful Southerners of a conservative and traditional bent have known since the 1980s that the old Conservative Movement which began back in the 1950s with the publication of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, and then… »

  • Boyd "Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Joe Biden
  • Neoconservatism
  • Political Correctness

The Benedict Option is Spiritual Secession

By Aaron Gleason

Hillary Clinton infamously said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you… »

  • Aaron Gleason
  • Benedict Option
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Secession

If You Can’t Blame the Confederacy, Secede!

By Brion McClanahan

American political theater has become the most entertaining show in town. Trump refuses to shake hands and Pelosi rips up his script. This is red meat for the duly indoctrinated in the mainstream political parties,… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Donald Trump
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession

Lincoln v. Trump

By J.L. Bennett

Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment to “smart,” progressive government, but lately they are professing their high regard for the founding document and its framers.  “Solemn”… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Donald Trump
  • Impeachment
  • Joyce Bennett
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution
  • War Crimes

Is Opposition to Trump “Satanic?”

By Michael Martin

On a February 2017 episode of televangelist Pat Robertson’s “The 700 club,” a viewer sent in the following question about dissent: “Why do so many hate President Trump and say everything he does is bad?… »

  • Donald Trump
  • Michael Martin
  • Pat Robertson
  • Southern Religion
  • Southern Tradition

A Crisis of Confidence

By Brion McClanahan

Pat Caddell died on February 16. Several major news outlets ran stories about his influence in both the Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump campaigns. Everyone understood Caddell’s role as the voice of the “outsider.” A… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Donald Trump
  • Jimmy Carter
  • New South
  • Pat Caddell
  • Southern Politics

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