Look, The Media Are Trapped By Changes

The Business Model Of The Conservative Media Is Built On Two Elements: Provoking The Audience Into A Fever Of Indignation (to Keep Them Watching) And Fomenting Mistrust Of All Other Information Sources (so That They Never Change The Channel).

Donald Trump Didn't Have A Polling Operation Until Very Late In His Campaign. How Did He Know What To Do? That The Ted Cruz People Leaked Their Polls To Trump Because They Were Looking Forward To Eliminating All The Other Rivals, Clearing The Way For A Cruz-trump Fight That They Were Certain Cruz Would Win. In The End, Cruz Was The Last Man Standing, It's True. If He Had Known At The Beginning What He Knew At The End, He Might Have Thought Twice. The Congressional Republican Party Thought They Could Make Trump Their Tool To Impose Their Very Unpopular Agenda. Instead, They Became His Tool.

To Balance China, The Democracies Will Need New Friends - And India With Its Fast-growing Economy, Youthful Population, And Democratic Politics Seems The Obvious Candidate.

The Great Society Went Wrong For Three Major Reasons. First, The Self-organization The Johnson Administration Promoted Turned Out To Be Not The Pooling Of Family And Community Resources Into Shops And Businesses, But Political Pressure For Government Handouts. Second, The Great Society Failed To Anticipate The Perverse Side-effects Of Handing Money Out To People Who Have Done Nothing To Earn It. Third, While The Great Society Was Showering Money On The Poor, The Supreme Court Was With Childlike Glee Smashing To Bits Traditional Methods Of Maintaining Law And Order.

World War Ii Proved A Hypothesis That Alexis De Tocqueville Advanced A Century Before: The War-fighting Potential Of A Democracy Is At Its Greatest When War Is Most Intense; At Its Weakest When War Is Most Limited. This Is A Lesson With Enduring Relevance To Our Own Times - And Our Own Wars.