Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, famously discussed something called collective effervescence. Durkheim argued that the universal religious dichotomy of sacrilegious and sacred results form the way in which we live of our lives. Unfortunately, most of us spend too many hours performing…
Last Friday, polling showed Trump is deceptively stronger, and Democrats weaker, than currently perceived. Beneath the surface, Trump is ahead of his 2016 finish with key groups, and ahead of where Obama was in 2011. A year and a half…
Despite their increasing reliance on liberals, for Democrats losing their conservatives could mean losing elections. Focus on liberals’ rising influence in the Party means conservatives’ continued importance is forgotten. However, Democrat conservatives’ outsized importance will become clearer as they continue…
The majority party in the next session of the House of Representatives will, fair to say, be soft on immigration and hard on guns. Nancy Pelosi is on record, after all, and she doesn’t stray very far, once she has taken…