My new @Townhallcom VIP column has all the answers!
“While America under Donald Trump is inarguably doing better in many ways than it has in many years, we still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly. Say the quiet part out loud, and you are racist, sexist, transphobic, xenophobic, and every other -ist and -phobe that turns you into an officially bad person. You are supposed to shut up and bear the burden of other people’s deviance.
Fortunately, we have a guy in the White House who does not care what they say. Donald Trump is already doing something about some of this. Other problems endure. And here is the part the elite especially do not want discussed: The solutions are easy.”
Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/09/09/our-biggest-problems-have-the-easiest-solutions-n2682590
Fredocons, squishes and timeservers were a big part of the problem, per my new @townhallcom column!
“A gratifying response to the absolute disaster last Tuesday has been the fact that Republicans in general have started a good-faith debate about what the hell happened and what we should do next. Oh yeah, there are some schmucks in there gloating, and a few grifters are trying to leverage the disaster to resurrect their garbage Bush-era brand of uniparty decline, but they don’t count. Mike Pence, for example, weighed in, but he weighs nothing — the guy couldn’t be more of a lightweight, and the notion that anyone cares what Mike Pence says, whose name isn’t Mike Pence, is positively hilarious.
We’re going to be hashing this out for a while. One of the things to consider among dozens of factors is the total failure of the kind of “normal” Republican that is supposedly the common-sense, adult-in-the-room alternative to those wacky MAGA guys who allegedly blow easy layup ...
Democrats who think voters embraced their policies last week should look at how they voted on 164 state ballot initiatives. It tells a different story. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/silver-linings-playbook
