Politics

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday. It was an early setback for President-elect Donald Trump that confirms the greatest threat to his agenda isn’t Democrats, but establishment Republicans... Apparently there were at least four GOP senators staunchly opposed to confirming Gaetz as attorney general: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Curtis of Utah. Assuming all Democrat senators voted against him, that would have put Gaetz one vote shy of confirmation.

By Katie Daviscourt, Human Events - Human smugglers have been encouraging migrants to "hurry up and sneak in" before President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025... A 1,500-person migrant caravan formed in southern Mexico on Wednesday en route to the US-Mexico border. A large-scale effort is underway to illegally enter the United States under Biden's open-border policies before the Trump administration takes office in January, and cracks down on illegal migration.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - The Trump counterrevolution challenges entrenched elites, bureaucracies, and progressive ideologies in favor of restoring traditional values, government accountability, and national identity. We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016... The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential. ...