So, about that crazy election...
I've got a new podcast on it and a bunch of articles breaking down different results.
Hey everyone,
I hope you all had a relaxing week and are well-rested. I know I sure am!
Kidding aside, this election was a mess just like we knew it would be. I am trying to step away from the vitriol this weekend and focus on spending times with friends and watching soccer with my boyfriend. (My favorite team, Chelsea FC, won big today!)
I can’t wait for this mess to be behind us. I will spend the next four years not fighting for Team Red or Team Blue, but advancing the same policy arguments and philosophical ideas I have pushed the last four years: limited government, free-market capitalism, fiscal conservatism, individual liberty, and a rejection of left-wing identitarianism.
That may often mean criticizing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I will fight against the push for government-run healthcare, trillions in new spending in debt, massive gun control, packing the Supreme Court, and so on.
Yet sometimes intellectual honesty may mean agreeing with them. All I can do is promise to adhere as closely as I can to my principles, rather than tribal or partisan impulses.
Thanks to all of you who read my work.
Meme:
Food Take: ALL diet/fake sugar drinks are disgusting. Full stop.
Podcast: Friend of the show and libertarian-conservative political commentator Hannah Cox joins the podcast to discuss election week and why she wasn't surprised by all the chaos.
Then, we discuss how disastrous economic policy might look like under a Biden-Harris administration, and analyze if they might actually make some decent reforms on immigration or criminal justice. Plus, we break down Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen's disappointing 1% of the vote.
YouTube:
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hannah-cox-election-venting-previewing-biden-harris/id1531229449?i=1000497576940
Listen on Spotify:
Articles:
Now that Kamala Harris is vice-president elect, we have to take her ideology even more seriously. I break her far-left views and policies down in a new National Review Op-Ed. Read more.
I didn’t support Trump, but I find it heartening that 28% of LGBT voters did. In my new Washington Examiner column I argue that this amounts to a rejection of identity politics and the notion that gay and transgender people owe any loyalty to a specific ideology or party. Read more.
Florida just voted for a $15 minimum wage. In a new piece for FEE, I explain why this will only hurt the same workers it’s meant to help. Read more.
California voters just voted to exempt Uber and Lyft from an industry-destroying regulation. I explain for FEE.org why voters were right to bail out drivers from awful big government legislation. Read more.
Bonus Brad: The QUEEN followed me and I’m still shook.