Trump’s Legacy: Proven Results Change Latin American Politics

The Most Important Export Of Trump’s Presidency Is Results

The Most Important Export Of Trump’s Presidency Is Resultsamuse – The most underappreciated effect of Donald Trump’s second term is not domestic. It is hemispheric. American commentators remain absorbed by court battles, media feuds, and partisan realignments at home. But south of the Rio Grande, voters and political elites are watching something else entirely. They are watching a governing model deliver visible results in defiance of elite orthodoxy. And they are drawing conclusions.

For decades, Latin American politics followed a familiar cycle. Left-wing coalitions promised redistribution and dignity, expanded the state, tolerated disorder in the name of social justice, and framed hostility toward Washington as moral virtue while quietly depending on U.S. markets, remittances, and security guarantees. The cycle did not fail because of rhetoric. It failed because it could not govern. Crime surged, currencies collapsed, energy prices spiked, and migration became a mass escape valve. Voters lived the consequences. Continue reading

Mike Johnson is Christian, pro-Trump. He’s the Left’s Nightmare

Mike Johnson is Christian, pro-Trump, and Left calls him 'raging homophobePeter LaBarbera – Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a Christian, pro-Trump, pro-life social conservative who scores well on all Right-leaning Capitol Hill voting scorecards, which is one of the many reasons why he is being denounced by leftist groups – even as grassroots MAGA and conservative activists are celebrating Johnson’s victory to become, as one put it, “the most conservative House speaker in decades.”

Johnson, 51, a four-term congressman representing Louisiana’s Fourth District, became the speaker Wednesday, receiving 220 votes and unanimous Republican support, after weeks of turmoil following conservative firebrand Matt Gaetz’s bold move to force a vote to take down former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Continue reading

How Conservatives Are Neutralized

Paul Rosenberg – Conservatives tend to be decent human beings and good neighbors. There are exceptions, of course, but those cluster around people who use conservatism as a cover for their sins. I’ll ignore those people for the rest of this post.

Conservatives tend to focus on principles… on right and wrong. This is generally a good thing, but it’s a problem for rulers, who want to use their power without being critiqued.

When a ruler behaves badly, some conservatives will fall away, but others will rise in opposition, and that opposition is often enough to make things difficult. And so, dealing with “care enough to suffer for it” conservatives, particularly in the US, is a problem rulers have to address. It disturbs their peculiar state of grace. Continue reading