Authors

Scott McKay

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
by and | Nov 13, 2024

Trump’s transition into his second term is in full swing, and he has been announcing members of his Executive Cabinet this week. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss Trump’s selections for his Cabinet and…

by | Nov 11, 2024

We’ll begin by revisiting some history that everybody here already knows. Donald Trump’s first term was greatly hamstrung by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who were more interested in preventing him from taking over the GOP than in paying…

by | Nov 7, 2024

Those of you familiar with my work know that I’ve written two political books — The Revivalist Manifesto, which was a treatise of sorts on how conservatism needs to undergo a bit of a rebranding and learn to develop an…

by and | Nov 6, 2024

The American people spoke, and Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay analyze the election results and the next steps for Trump’s second term. Melissa and…

by | Nov 6, 2024

As an observer of, and writer about, politics, I both love and hate election night. I love it because election night is the grand spectacle of American democracy playing out across TV screens and elsewhere. It’s history, math, science, and…

by | Nov 4, 2024

This column has noted, multiple times over the course of this year, that the 2024 presidential election has taken on the character of the literary trope of the Hero’s Journey. And today, the final chapter in that story will be…

by and | Oct 31, 2024

In a CNN panel discussing the rhetoric of Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, Ryan Girdusky was fired from CNN following an offensive remark he made toward panelist Mehdi Hassan. (READ MORE: In Defense of Tony Hinchcliffe)  In this episode of The…

by | Oct 31, 2024

Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the New York Yankees lost it. Down three games to one, the fired-up Yankees got off to a hot start,…

by and | Oct 30, 2024

In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the sexual immorality continually touted by the Left and the elites. (READ MORE: The Best Possible Outcome for Democrats: A Trump Win) Melissa and Scott go through…

by | Oct 29, 2024

Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman born in the colonial town of Boston in 1706 but who chose to separate himself from the rule of a tyrannical British government as one of our American Founding Fathers, once wrote that “People willing to…

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