Heart be still, but America is in the early stages of what could be a major political shift. On issue after issue, from soaring crime to inflation to critical race theory, Democrats and the far left are being forced to play defense because their radical policies are failing. The effort to reshape the nation is clashing with reality — and reality is winning. — Michael Goodwin, New York Post   We are undergoing a fundamental political and demographic realignment. According to University of Virginia politics professor James Ceaser, relations between elites and “non-elites,” those the Left once called the “common man” or the “people,” have changed dramatically. As the elites — those in entertainment, the media, higher education, national bureaucracy senior ranks, and in global business corporations — have moved left, non-elites have moved away from them. Famed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has noticed. Writing November 7 just after Democrats lost big in Virginia and D...

  Secularism, pushing aside “Merry Christmas,” reduces Christianity to “Happy Holidays.” But the date recognizing Christ’s birth is still far and away America’s most beloved celebration. We are a good country, and we love sharing our good fortune with others. For Christians, for others, God is love. — 1 John 4:8 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. — I Corinthians 13 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God. — Ephesians 2:8 The ideal of Christianity — faith in Christ that moves one toward kindness, patience, humility, honoring truth, joyfully sharing burdens — takes us toward virtue, away from hatred, abuse, crime. God created each person unique, ...

  People understood perfectly well that a new governing class had arisen determined to overturn democratic norms and our self-governing republic and to replace them with domination by self-serving “experts” and a globalized elite. — Peter W. Wood, author of Wrath: America Enraged Barack Obama has dominated U.S. politics since 2008, first as president to 2017, then as Democrats’ de facto leader. We are living through Obama’s third term. He directs U.S. policy via puppet Biden and current White House staffers, while adding occasional direct messages. Obama control requires a coalition of color, white elitists, unmarried women, and young people. They stick together no matter how poorly government performs, determined to maintain progressive power under the Wokeism banner . Where’s Obama leading us? For an answer, let’s reach back, recalling simple explanations work best. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97), age 49 in 1958, delivered his inaugural lecture at Oxford entitled “Two Concepts of Lib...